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Mark Engler

Mark Engler

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. He can be reached via the website http://www.DemocracyUprising.com.

  • Mikrokredite: Die Entlassung eines Nobelpreisträgers

    by Mark Engler May 25, 2011
    by Mark Engler May 25, 2011

    Published in Epoch Times. Es ist endgültig. Nobelpreisträger Muhammad Yunus wurde entlassen. In der vergangenen Woche verlor Yunus seine letzte Berufung vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof von Bangladesch. Damit endet eine …

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  • Is Rambo Still A Republican?

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004

    Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.

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  • Why Wendell Matters

    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004

    Seventy years old this week, the veteran sage of sustainable agriculture has made a life of stewardship, “staying home,” and turning off the computer.

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  • Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade: What’s a Radical to Eat?

    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013
    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013

    On the politics of food.

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  • Immigration Economics: An Interview with Professor Giovanni Peri

    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010

    Doesn’t supply and demand dictate that new immigrants will steal jobs and drive down wages for U.S. citizens? A leading immigration economist explains why not.

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  • War: The Wrong Jobs Program

    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011

    The real question is not whether the government should spend on job creation. It is whether the government has been spending well.

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  • The World Is Not Flat

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008

    How Thomas Friedman gets it wrong about globalization. An excerpt from How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008)

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  • Science Fiction From Below

    by Mark Engler May 8, 2009
    by Mark Engler May 8, 2009

    Alex Rivera, director of the new film Sleep Dealer, imagines the future of the Global South.

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  • The “Battle in Seattle” at Ten

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2009
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2009

    Did the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization actually make a difference? Yes. Here’s how.

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  • The Gulf at the Gas Station

    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010
    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010

    Why the market fails in calculating the true cost of our dependence on oil.

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Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
  • TruthDig
  • Asia Times
  • Sierra Magazine
  • Labor Notes
  • New Politics
  • The Catholic Worker
  • The Des Moines Register
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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2023-2025
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    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
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    • 1999-2002