(http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/820062.html)
Aug. 09, 2008
WASHINGTON — Oil prices fell Friday by almost $5 a barrel to $115.20 and are down more than 20 percent from their early July record high of more than $147, a trend that’s triggering a sudden boom in stock prices and giving the U.S. economy its best news in months.
Energy analysts cautiously believe [...]

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ENERGY
The world has never looked better for the Big Five oil companies. This morning, Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest corporation, announced its “second-quarter profit rose 14 percent, to $11.68 billion, the highest-ever profit by an American company. Exxon broke its own record.” Joining Exxon Mobil as the only oil companies to “earn more than $10 billion in [...]

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Officials try to hammer out far-reaching deals for U.S. presence

The Associated Press
Sat., June. 21, 2008

BAGHDAD - The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up — not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America’s role across the region is on the line.
American and Iraqi officials [...]

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Middle East

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
All Things Considered, June 8, 2008 · Iraq and Iran have not always been good neighbors. They fought an eight-year war in the 1980s. And Iraq is investigating U.S. allegations that Iran is backing Shiite militias in Iraq.
But the Iranians have their own concerns: They fear that Iraq might agree to [...]

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ILWU
26 Feb 08
ILWU letter to AFL-CIO Pres. John J. Sweeney
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M/S/C as amended
FOR WORKERS’ ACTION TO STOP THE WAR
WHEREAS: On May 1, 2003, at the ILWU Convention in San Francisco resolutions were passed calling for an end to the war and occupation in Iraq; and
WHEREAS: ILWU took the lead among labor unions in opposing [...]

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