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

Opinion

Questions on 9/11 refuse to go away
July 31, 2004 By Susan Webb
The final report of the bipartisan national 9/11 commission is unlikely to stamp out questions about the Bush administration’s handling of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, its Iraq war, or its overall foreign policy.
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Peace

Cold numbers show heavy price of Iraq war
July 15, 2004 By Susan Webb
Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.
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PrintEditions

Iraq: Where did the $20 billion go?
July 2, 2004 By Susan Webb
The U.S. occupation and its corporate cronies have ripped off Iraq’s oil wealth and ravaged the country’s infrastructure, several new reports show. Coalition Provisional Authority boss L. Paul Bremer slinked out of Iraq June 28 after...
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Other

Liar, liar
June 25, 2004 By Susan Webb
In a devastating blow to George W. Bush’s most powerful rationale for the invasion of Iraq, the bipartisan September 11th commission found no link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, and no evidence of collaboration...
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PrintEditions

Soldiers say Im not going back
June 18, 2004 By Susan Webb
These days, GI rights counseling coordinator Bill Galvin is getting at least four or five calls a day from soldiers saying, “I’ve gotten orders to go to Iraq and I don’t want to go.” click here...
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U.S.

White House put itself above the law
June 11, 2004 By Susan Webb
Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is sitting in an Army brig at Ft. Sill, Okla., because he rejected the torture and brutality carried out by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq. Mejia served eight years in the Army...
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Peace

New stage in Iraqs struggle vs. occupation
June 4, 2004 By Susan Webb
News Analysis With the naming of an interim Iraqi government following a contentious process, Iraq’s struggle for sovereignty and an end to the U.S. occupation enters a new phase.
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Peace

Bush Iraq speech defends the indefensible
May 28, 2004 By Susan Webb
Longtime Philadelphia labor activist Jim Moran had little use for George W. Bush’s May 24 Iraq policy speech. “It didn’t score any points with me,” Moran said.
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