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

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Edwards, Kucinich stand out on climate crisis
July 20, 2007 By Susan Webb
John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich stood out among Democratic presidential candidates in a national MoveOn town hall on the climate crisis this month. The two clearly captured a public desire for a president who offers forthright...
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Peace

Gaza crisis tied to Israeli-U.S. policy
June 22, 2007 By Susan Webb
With the crisis unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is in jeopardy, Palestinian and Israeli progressives fear.
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Peace

Jerusalem Initiative: Palestinians, Israelis appeal for world action to spur peace
June 15, 2007 By Susan Webb
JERUSALEM — An international meeting here June 4 appealed for world pressure on the Israeli government to negotiate with the PLO to achieve a comprehensive and just peace. The conference was an unprecedented joint undertaking of...
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World

Wolfowitz ouster reflects bigger problems
May 25, 2007 By Susan Webb
The scandal that led to the forced resignation of Iraq war guru Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank “is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nadia Martinez, who co-directs the Institute for Policy Studies’...
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World

Talking about a revolution: Calls for action on global warming, inequality
May 11, 2007 By Susan Webb
The latest report of a world scientific panel on global warming has called for what amounts to a social revolution, one of the report’s authors said.
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U.S.

Organizing heats up to defend womens rights
May 4, 2007 By Susan Webb
Last November, South Dakota voters overturned a state abortion ban by a 12 percent margin. The April 18 Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling shows the court is “farther to the right than these conservative ‘red states’ voters,”...
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U.S.

Race, sex, class and the Duke case
April 20, 2007 By Susan Webb
As editor of this page, I searched the Internet for insightful commentary on the Duke lacrosse players case. Sad to say, such comments have been all too few. Most seized the opportunity to throw sand in...
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Peace

Crowds pack Iraqi Communist Party celebrations
April 13, 2007 By Susan Webb
Some 10,000 Baghdad residents packed a sports stadium March 31 to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party. It was the first mass event in Baghdad in years by any secular democratic group.
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