Positive signs that a new Democratic Congress is breaking with the corporate globalization agenda.
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.
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Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor.
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The World Bank should get a failing grade for its rankings of countries that violate workers’ rights.
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The collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization is a victory for the global justice movement, but also presents new challenges.
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The demand for a full recount is a legitimate one.
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A campaign of fear may have kept Mexico locked into the status quo.
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Bush won’t cheer a progressive win in Mexico’s presidential election, but the rest of us should.
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A book of photographs by Steve Simon.
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Railing against Bolivia’s oil and gas nationalization, the media’s “free trade” ideologues value markets over democracy.
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A review of Empire’s Workshop by Greg Grandin.