Susan Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb
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U.S.
Auto mileage to rise, but Big Oil keeps grip on Congress
December 21, 2007The Senate voted almost unanimously Dec. 13 to raise car and truck fuel economy standards for the first time in 30 years. The bill, passed 86-8, requires a 40 percent increase in fuel economy for U.S....
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Peace
Annapolis: photo-op or opportunity?
November 30, 2007Despite considerable skepticism about the Israeli-Palestinian conference convened by President Bush in Annapolis, Md., Nov. 27, Jewish and Palestinian American peace advocates say it offers an opportunity for peace, if peace supporters keep the pressure on.
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Peace
From Pakistan to Iran: Bush policy spreads war danger
November 9, 2007The new crisis in Pakistan demonstrates the hypocrisy of Bush administration saber-rattling against Iran, foreign policy analysts say.
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Peace
More outrage in Iraq, more billions down the drain: It cant continue like this, Iraqis say
October 26, 2007Tensions over U.S. killings of civilians in Iraq received another jolt with reports that American forces killed 17 civilians and wounded several dozen others, including old people and children, in Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City neighborhood Oct....
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Peace
To end Iraq war, people power organizes
September 21, 2007CHICAGO — Last fall 800,000 Chicagoans voted to bring our troops home from Iraq, but only 20,000 turn out for demonstrations or other actions, said longtime peace activist and organizer Carl Davidson. The referendum, like numerous...
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PrintEditions
Powerful play about a dark time
September 14, 2007One of my earliest memories is peering out our apartment window as my mother pointed to a car parked outside. “That’s the FBI,” she said. Another memory is sitting on my mother’s lap, talking to my...
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Other
Iraqis condemn U.S. colonialism
August 31, 2007President Bush plans to ask Congress for $50 billion this month to continue funding the Iraq war, the Washington Post reports. But meanwhile, Iraqi Communists charge, “The Americans are doing everything they can to prevent Iraqis...
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U.S.
Mortgage crisis stoked by incredible greed
August 17, 2007Baton Rouge, La., Kansas City, Mo., and Bethlehem, Pa., are far from Wall Street, but they are among the ground zeros in the financial crisis now grabbing headlines. It’s a crisis caused, some say, by “incredible...
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