http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Corporatocracy Posts tagged with 'Corporatocracy' at MetaFilter. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:38:35 -0800 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:38:35 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72777/Forgetting%2DEquatorial%2DGuinea <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ek.html">Equatorial Guinea</a> is more than your average <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/world/africa/23zimbabwe.html">headline-making</a>, human rights-eschewing African nation. Likening the country’s uneasy street-silence to that of Pyongyang, deported journalist Peter Maass reveals <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193870/">an unparalleled culture of fear blanketed by an international media blackout</a>. But for the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/01/12_400.html">Whitehouse</a>, <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/natres/oil/2003/0816blind.htm">ExxonMobil</a> and <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,434691,00.html">Teodoro Obiang</a>—Equatorial Guinea’s torturous leader—the poverty, abuse and dead-quiet are <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1101-2004Sep6.html">business as usual</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72777 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:38:35 -0800 africa corporations corporatocracy equatorialguinea exxonmobil humanrights media oil slate dead_ http://www.metafilter.com/40039/A%2Dgilded%2Dtomorrow <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/specials/la-newdeal-cover.special">An American paradox:</a> Why so many families report being <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">financially less secure</a> even as the nation has grown more prosperous. The answer lies in a<a href="http://www.newint.org/issue347/contents.htm"> quarter-century-long shift of economic risks</a> from the broad shoulders of business and government to the backs of working families. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40039 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:46:30 -0800 Corporatocracy Economy Politics US The Jesse Helms