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

Peace

Gaza crisis: Time to break with Cold War policies
January 9, 2009 By Susan Webb
The tiny Gaza Strip, with its 1.5 million people crowded into 139 square miles, has been a tinderbox since Israel’s unilateral pullout in 2005. Israel has maintained a punitive military and economic grip on Gaza, keeping...
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Peace

Gaza crisis: challenge and opportunity for Obama to turn the page toward peace
January 1, 2009 By Susan Webb
Time to break with disastrous Cold War policies It’s possible a temporary Gaza truce may emerge in the next few days, but, more than ever, the underlying issues will at long last have to be resolved....
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World

Calls grow for U.S. action on Gaza ceasefire
December 30, 2008 By Susan Webb
As the United Nations Security Council called for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, Jewish and Arab American groups urged the Bush administration and other nations to act to stop the escalating violence.
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Peace

Iraq, Blackwater and shoes
December 17, 2008 By Susan Webb
More than a year after Blackwater USA security guards sprayed a busy Baghdad intersection with bullets, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and wounding others, the U.S. Justice Department finally filed criminal charges against the gunmen on Dec....
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U.S.

Obama projects massive recovery plan
November 26, 2008 By Susan Webb
Although nearly two months remain until President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he has moved onto center stage on the deepening economic crisis, declaring he will launch a massive jobs program to jumpstart the economy where it...
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Opinion

Iraq-U.S. pact sets end to occupation
November 21, 2008 By Susan Webb
Iraq’s Parliament is expected to vote Nov. 24 on an Iraq-U.S. agreement that sets a fixed 2011 end-date for withdrawal of all U.S. troops, with no exceptions or extensions.
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U.S.

Tears of joy greet Obama election
November 7, 2008 By Susan Webb
CHICAGO — With the nation and world watching, lights sparkled across Grant Park on Election Night as more than 240,000 Americans of all races and backgrounds gathered to hear President-elect Barack Obama call on them to...
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Opinion

OPINION: The Rosenberg case revisited: heroes and betrayers
September 24, 2008 By Susan Webb
The ugly days of the 1950s witchhunts returned to the headlines this month, hitting me in a very personal way.
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