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

Labor

Daryl Hannah, scientist arrested in W.Va. protest
June 25, 2009 By Susan Webb
Actress Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and former U.S. Rep. Ken Hechler were among 31 people arrested Tuesday as they and several hundred others protested mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia.
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World

Good? Bad? Netanyahu speech draws mixed reactions
June 17, 2009 By Susan Webb
Was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-reported speech Sunday a step forward or just more of the same? The reactions have been mixed.
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Labor

Head Start workers fight for their jobs
June 14, 2009 By Susan Webb
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “We built Head Start,” said Barbara Lewis. “We are Head Start. We just lost our jobs.”
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U.S.

Next 8 weeks critical for health reform, Obama says
June 12, 2009 By Susan Webb
“The next eight weeks are going to be critical” to winning meaningful health care reform, President Obama told a Wisconsin town hall meeting today.
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Opinion

Obama in Cairo a profound message for Americans
June 10, 2009 By Susan Webb
“Americans have been constantly redefining their national identity from the moment of first contact on the Virginia shore,” historian Ronald Takaki wrote. When our first African American president addressed the Arab and Muslim peoples of the...
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Labor

RI workers go to court, press lawmakers to protect rights
June 6, 2009 By Susan Webb
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Workers who were locked out of their jobs at a local factory in January have filed a federal lawsuit against their former employer and the private equity firm that shut the plant down.
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World

Expectations high for Obamas Cairo speech
June 2, 2009 By Susan Webb
President Obama will deliver an unprecedented speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, addressed to the Arab and Muslim world. Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the top of his agenda, and his Cairo...
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U.S.

Anti-union, anti-gov’t group takes aim at public health plan
May 28, 2009 By Susan Webb
It doesn’t take much scratching beneath the surface of the web site “Patients United Now” to see its anti-union, far-right roots.
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