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Study links oil prices to investor speculation
September 13, 2008WASHINGTON (AP) — Speculation by large investors — and not supply and demand for oil — were a primary reason for the surge in oil prices during the first half of the year and the more...
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Plot to use stimulus package to gut fair labor standards
September 13, 2008Just as the labor movement has gotten many in Congress to back a second and better economic stimulus package that does more than just hand out checks for paying back bills, enter the right wing with...
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If McCain is elected, you are screwed, Steelworkers say in new national alert
September 13, 2008The United Steelworkers began alerting every single one of its members on Sept. 11 that enactment of John McCain’s health care plan would result in the actual loss of $2,400 to $3,300 in annual income by...
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Celebrating Mexican independence
September 13, 2008The biggest national holiday in Mexico, and celebrated by Mexican people living all over the world, is Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16. A little history: Before Mexico became Mexico, indigenous people first cultivated and inhabited the...
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NATO, an idea whose time has gone
September 13, 2008When NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was founded after World War II, its first secretary general, British general Lord Ismay, succinctly stated its real, original purpose: “To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and...
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