Susan Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb
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U.S.
Health care should not be wheel of (mis)fortune
April 21, 2009CRANSTON, R.I. — Wendy Laprade, a nurse and Service Employees International Union activist, played “health care wheel of (mis)fortune” at a rally for national health care reform here this weekend. Her spin landed her on “pre-existing...
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Obama outlines pro-worker tax policy, slams right-wing scare tactics
April 17, 2009While right-wingers tried to resuscitate their discredited movement with Fox-amplified anti-tax “tea party” protests yesterday, President Obama outlined a set of strongly pro-working-class tax reform initiatives.
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World
Israels new right-wing leaders pose threat to Israel itself, critics say
April 15, 2009Israel’s new right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and, in particular, statements by his far-right foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, have raised considerable alarm, both within Israel and internationally.
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Penguins & melting ice: Arctic, Antarctic actors & barometers of globes future
April 14, 2009The North and South Poles are at the center of the earth. The earth’s survival, that is. The two polar regions, the Arctic and Antarctic, are “actors and barometers” of rapid climate and environmental changes that...
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Misplaced priorities? Where your tax dollars go
April 10, 2009As pundits and politicians dispute whether Pentagon spending changes announced by Defense Secretary Robert Gates this week amount to cuts, increases or neither, a new report says more than 37 cents of every taxpayer dollar went...
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Shoe-repairman, veteran, bobbin boy, Communist: 93 years with a twinkle in his eye
April 8, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Hovan has been reading this newspaper, and its predecessors going back to the Daily Worker, since the early 1930s — in the depths of the Great Depression. It’s been a key to...
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World
Antarctic ice bridge shatters, ice shelf the size of Connecticut could be next
April 7, 2009Dramatic message to polar summit Mother Nature sent a dramatic message to a global summit on the Arctic and Antarctic that opened this morning in Baltimore: On Saturday, an ice bridge that is believed to hold...
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As joblessness soars, call goes out for food stamp justice
April 1, 2009PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Empty store windows line downtown streets in this old mill town, the birthplace of our country’s industrial revolution.
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