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30946 Nike-UNC deal: no sweat -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 17, 2001 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Nike Agree on $28-Million Deal With Anti-Sweatshop Clause By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has signed an eight-year contract with Nike worth more than $28-million in cash and athletic shoes, apparel, and equipment. Under the agreement, signed this week, all merchandise carrying the university's logo -- including, for the first time, team uniforms -- will be man ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:49:18 PDT 2001

30947 Clerical Fascism & Totalitarianism -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >You have to be one of the biggest tin-eared jerks I have ever encountered on >a list. While someone who can type a sentence like that is the furthest thing from a tin-eared jerk imaginable, right? Can the invective. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:31:27 PDT 2001

30948 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>They aren't fighting terrorism, though. The "war on terrorism" is >>>just a rhetoric, like the "war on drugs." >> >>Well who attacked the WTC then? >> >>Doug > >They are not fighting the terrorists who attacked the WTC. So you know who attacked the WTC, and it wasn't al Qaeda? Who was it then? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:19:19 PDT 2001

30949 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >They aren't fighting terrorism, though. The "war on terrorism" is >just a rhetoric, like the "war on drugs." Well who attacked the WTC then? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 19:38:45 PDT 2001

30950 Fuel dump or Red Cross compound? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Check out the description of these photos and the time released: > >http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=smoke+local&c=news_photos&n=10 Well, which is it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 19:33:17 PDT 2001

30951 Planned Parenthood gets funny mail -- rank: 1000

Monday October 15 8:25 PM ET Abortion Rights Group Gets Suspicious Letters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. abortion rights group said on Monday that 90 of its clinics and offices in at least 13 states had received envelopes containing threatening letters and an unidentified powdery substance. Planned Parenthood Federation of America said some of the letters included messages from a group called the Army of God, a militant anti-abortion group that has advocated violence against medical pers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 14:50:47 PDT 2001

30952 Raimondo, Antiwar -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The aim is to, and should be to, bring into question Washington's >competency to govern. That is what Sept. 11th put at stake more >than anything else. Need one point to the revolutionary >implications? Let me see if I've got this right. Someone - presumably that tiny formation known as The Left - is supposed to circulate this revoultionary insight among whom? The American masses, 90% of whom support the bombing, and 99.5% of whom feel under attack? And having po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 13:03:54 PDT 2001

30953 Jude & Pat on Vietnam -- rank: 1000

I asked Jude Wanniski if Pat Buchanan had changed his mind on Vietnam, and while I was at it, what Jude's own posish was. Here's his answer: Jude on Pat: >He was a Nixon guy who never really bought into the China >initiative. He's written several books, so you might check them out. >I'd guess he was opposed to the Democratic War, but then took the >position that we should use max force to win. Jude on Jude: >Once JFK assassinated Diem, we had no choice but clean up the mess. >I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 12:27:44 PDT 2001

30954 FT: Don't write Globalization Obituary yet -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Globalisation's demise exaggerated This war's been great for the straw man industry. Who's been writing obits for "globalization," whatever that is? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:38:14 PDT 2001

30955 PW returns -- rank: 1000

The excellent Processed World has just published an issue after a long hiatus, with the theme "The Greatest Speedup in Human History." Just pulled my copy out of the PO box and dusted off the anthrax spores. Looks dandy. More at <http://processedworld.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:17:53 PDT 2001

30956 Jude & Pat weigh in -- rank: 1000

October 16, 2001 Welcome Home, Pat Buchanan! Memo To: Pat the Commentator From: Jude Wanniski Re: Doing What You Do Best It is great to have you back doing what you do best, Pat, writing newspaper columns like the first today for Creators Syndicate, "Into the Big Muddy - again?" As so many youngsters are writing columns these days, with no political memory that extends back as far as the Vietnam years, it is a reminder of how much information you have rattling around in your head as yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:05:55 PDT 2001

30957 Week One: Operation Infinite Disaster -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >A total of 400 civilian deaths have been confirmed. By whom? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 09:37:15 PDT 2001

30958 good Taliban and bad -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.S., PAKISTAN SEE FUTURE ROLE FOR TALIBAN. General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Colin Powell today that the US had agreed to a role for moderate Taliban leaders in any post-war regime in Afghanistan, reports the FT.com. Any new regime should include a role for "former King Zahir Shah, political leaders, moderate Taliban leaders, elements from the Northern Alliance, tribal elders, and Afghans ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 07:56:56 PDT 2001

30959 Totalitarianism (was: "Clerical fascism") -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >*** Virulent and unprincipled attacks on critics, including insults, >agent-baiting, threats by attorneys and defamation lawsuits. Sounds like a typical left-wing mailing list! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 07:05:01 PDT 2001

30960 civilian casualties -- rank: 1000

["...a man buried his wife, piece by piece..."] Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent Ian Williams is in Khorum - one of a small group of international journalists inside Taliban controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban claim Khorum was flattened by US air strikes - killing hundreds of women and children. Ian Williams assesses the validity of their claims. http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20011014/4afg.ram

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 15 17:04:48 PDT 2001