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.

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U.S. military attacks Iraqi trade unions
December 12, 2003 By Susan Webb
A U.S. occupation force involving 10 armored vehicles and dozens of soldiers attacked the headquarters of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions in Baghdad, Dec. 6. They arrested eight of its leaders and members, who were...
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Peace

Bush plays politics with Iraq crisis
December 5, 2003 By Susan Webb
President Bush’s stage-managed Thanksgiving Day trip to a U.S. military hangar in Baghdad dramatized the extent to which the administration is now handling Iraq as an element in Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.
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Peace

Bomb and Iraqify: Bush re-election plan
November 22, 2003 By Susan Webb
The U.S. unleashed a massive bombing attack on central Iraq Nov. 18, dropping 2,000- and 1,000-pound bombs around Baghdad, a little over five months after President Bush declared the end of “major combat” May 1.
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Peace

Is the draft on the drawing boards?
November 14, 2003 By Susan Webb
Is a return to compulsory military service – the “draft” – on the Pentagon drawing boards?
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Peace

First visit of U.S. unionists to occupied Iraq
October 31, 2003 By Susan Webb
Stop violating labor rights CHICAGO – Two U.S. trade unionists just back from Iraq say they hope their trip is the beginning of cooperation and solidarity between the U.S. labor movement and Iraq’s newly re-established unions.
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Peace

No end in sight for Bushs Iraq mess
October 31, 2003 By Susan Webb
The much-anticipated international donors’ conference on Iraq, like the United Nations resolution adopted earlier in the month, failed to help the White House out of what Newsweek’s Nov. 3 cover story calls “Bush’s $87 billion mess.”
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Peace

Iraq war a house of cards Low troop morale puts pressure on Bush
October 24, 2003 By Susan Webb
Widening reports of low morale among U.S. troops are adding to pressures on the Bush administration to find a bailout for its failed Iraq policy.
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World

No votes urged on Bush Iraq bill
October 16, 2003 By Susan Webb
With a congressional vote expected shortly on President Bush’s $87 billion request for the occupation of Iraq, a growing number of lawmakers have announced they will vote against it.
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