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

UN steps up role as Iraqis push for power
February 27, 2004 By Susan Webb
United Nations election experts recently returned from Iraq told the UN Security Council this week a transfer of political power to an Iraqi government must happen by June 30, the previously agreed-upon deadline.
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Peace

In slap at Bush, Senate to probe WMD lies
February 19, 2004 By Susan Webb
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence handed President Bush a direct challenge when it announced Feb. 12 that it will investigate whether Bush and other top officials misused and manipulated intelligence to make a case for...
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Peace

White House sold war with smoke & mirrors
February 13, 2004 By Susan Webb
Which is worse, a president who doesn’t know what’s going on and is manipulated by others, or a president who launches a war knowingly using false or misleading information to sell it to the American people?...
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Peace

Bush runs for cover on WMD lies
February 6, 2004 By Susan Webb
Following the declaration by President Bush’s chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion – the administration’s stated reason for the Iraq war – Bush’s...
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Peace

When Bush comes to shove resist!
January 30, 2004 By Susan Webb
MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...” The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister...
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Peace

World Social Forum challenges inequality
January 23, 2004 By Susan Webb
MUMBAI, India – On the sidewalk of a busy Mumbai street, two tiny children and their baby brother, clad only in a shirt, sit in a patch of dirt, directly in front of a cell phone...
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Other

U.S. companies loot Iraq & U.S. taxpayers
January 9, 2004 By Susan Webb
As Americans at home returned to post-holiday routines, the news from Iraq continued a familiar pattern – U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians killed and wounded daily. But sharing the spotlight is the looting of Iraq by...
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Peace

Despite Hussein capture, Iraq woes continue
December 19, 2003 By Susan Webb
The capture of Saddam Hussein will not solve the problems swirling around the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the lies that justified it, many Americans are saying.
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