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Expecting shortages, Citgo requests crude from U.S. reserves

September 15, 2008 By Teresa Albano

Citgo Petroleum Corporation sent a formal request Sept. 14 to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for 1 million barrels of crude oil.

Study links oil prices to investor speculation

September 13, 2008

WASHINGTON (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...

Plot to use stimulus package to gut fair labor standards

September 13, 2008

Just 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...

If McCain is elected, you are screwed, Steelworkers say in new national alert

September 13, 2008

The 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...

Sept. 11: Continuing to mourn the dead, fight for the living

September 13, 2008

Tammy Johnson from Saratoga, N.Y. pays her respects to the thousands of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack at the site where the World Trade Center once stood. The immediate victims of that day...