Susan Webb

Susan Webb is a retired co-editor of People's World. She has written on a range of topics both international - the Iraq war, World Social Forums in Brazil and India, the Israel-Palestinian conflict and controversy over the U.S. role in Okinawa - and domestic - including the meaning of socialism for Americans, attacks on Planned Parenthood, the U.S. as top weapons merchant, and more.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb

Opinion

Memorial Day: You cant see change when its happening
May 26, 2009 By Susan Webb
Out walking with my dog this morning, down the street from the local Catholic college, we passed a couple of yards strewn with blue plastic beer cups, left over from a night of graduation celebrations. A...
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World

Obama & Netanyahu agree and disagree
May 20, 2009 By Susan Webb
In a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after their White House meeting, President Obama reiterated his view that it is “in the interest not only of the Palestinians, but also the Israelis...
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World

Obama expected to press Netanyahu on Palestinian state
May 19, 2009 By Susan Webb
In his meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today, President Obama was expected to press the right-wing Israeli leader to endorse a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict and to come...
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U.S.

Health industry goes to White House: real reform or pre-emptive strike?
May 12, 2009 By Susan Webb
Representatives from the nation’s biggest corporate health lobbies, in a White House meeting with President Obama today, offered up a plan to voluntarily reduce health care costs by as much as $2 trillion over 10 years....
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U.S.

Howard Dean: Public health insurance is ‘core fight’
May 6, 2009 By Susan Webb
Winning a public health insurance option for all Americans is the “core fight” in the health care reform battle, former Gov. Howard Dean told more than 1,300 people in a national online conference organized by MoveOn.org....
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World

U.S. pullout deadlines non-extendable, Iraqi government says
May 5, 2009 By Susan Webb
The Iraqi government will not extend the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq’s cities, a government spokesperson said today.
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Labor

Some warn of anti-teacher agenda on school inequities report
April 29, 2009 By Susan Webb
A new report says wide educational achievement gaps hurt our economy and need national attention. But some wonder if the report is being used to advance an anti-teacher-union agenda.
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World

Furor over Iranian leader speech at UN racism conference seen as diversion
April 22, 2009 By Susan Webb
Controversy over characterizations of Israel have diverted attention from the important purpose of the United Nations conference on combating racism taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. lawmakers and others charge. The diversion was unhelpfully, but predictably,...
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