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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.

  • U.N. Spies and Iraq War Lies

    by Mark Engler March 3, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 3, 2004

    While spying on one’s allies may not be unusual at the UN, new charges against the US and Britain paint a damning picture of the unseemly push for war in …

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  • The Iraqi Monkey Crisis

    by Mark Engler February 24, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 24, 2004

    Bush’s invocation of the Cuban Missile Crisis to justify war in Iraq was absurd—but telling.

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  • Wisconsin Farewell: A Dean Retrospective

    by Mark Engler February 17, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 17, 2004

    With Howard Dean’s withdrawal from the presidential race it’s time to take stock of the candidate’s dramatic reversal of fortune, and to appreciate his contribution to a revived Democratic Party.

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  • “The Leak” Still Drips of Scandal

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2004

    Before 2004’s presidential elections every American should take another look at the Bush administration’s outing of an undercover CIA agent.

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  • The WMD Blame Game

    by Mark Engler February 2, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 2, 2004

    The independent investigation into Iraq WMD claims must have power to look beyond technical intelligence-gathering processes and investigate how the White House misused findings in its push for war.

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  • The Trouble With CAFTA

    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004

    A ratified CAFTA would represent a clear blow to poor and working people in the Americas. But that outcome is anything but certain.

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  • Bush’s Uneasy Mexican Visita

    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004

    On the tenth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, President Bush encounters an unruly Latin America.

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  • Government Attacks on MLK Show Need to Protect Rights

    by Mark Engler January 14, 2004
    by Mark Engler January 14, 2004

    More than just spying on him, the government was actively attempting to sabotage King’s work, going so far as trying to persuade the civil rights leader to kill himself.

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  • Schlosser’s Agenda

    by Mark Engler December 11, 2003
    by Mark Engler December 11, 2003

    A review of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser.

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  • Miami’s Trade Troubles

    by Mark Engler November 24, 2003
    by Mark Engler November 24, 2003

    Contrary to the Bush Administration’s spin, the Free Trade Area of the Americas met defeat in militarized Miami.

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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
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    • 2019-2020
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    • 1999-2002