The huge mining corporation’s legal actions against two small book presses — what do they say about our democracy? By Philip Resnick | TheTyee.ca | April 21, 2010 Barrick Gold is a giant in the world of Canadian mining corporations, and its founder and chair, Peter Munk, has revelled in media attention for his philanthropy. [...]
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t … By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. [...]
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