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2005-2006

  • More To Be Done On Debt Relief

    by Mark Engler March 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 30, 2006

    If you think the third world debt crisis was solved at the meetings of G8 leaders last summer, think again.

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  • Politicizing U.S. Aid

    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006

    Under Bush’s new Director of Foreign Assistance, Randall Tobias, U.S. foreign assistance will be more overtly political than ever. Can progressives in good conscience demand increased aid?

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  • Bolivia and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America

    by Mark Engler and Benjamin Dangl March 2, 2006
    by Mark Engler and Benjamin Dangl March 2, 2006

    What will Evo Morales learn from leftist governments in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela?

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  • Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?

    by Mark Engler December 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler December 14, 2005

    While lavish agricultural subsidies illustrate wealthy countries’ hypocritical stance on “free trade,” ending them would be no panacea for human development.

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  • War Crimes, USA

    by Mark Engler December 8, 2005
    by Mark Engler December 8, 2005

    Could administration officials be called to account? An interview with Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, editors of In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and …

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  • 2006: A Global Justice Year in Review

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006

    The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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  • Slowing the ‘Free Trade’ Bulldozer

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006

    Positive signs that a new Democratic Congress is breaking with the corporate globalization agenda.

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  • The Return of Daniel Ortega

    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006

    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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  • World Bank: Calling Bad Business Good

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2006

    The World Bank should get a failing grade for its rankings of countries that violate workers’ rights.

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  • WTO: Best Left For Dead?

    by Mark Engler August 8, 2006
    by Mark Engler August 8, 2006

    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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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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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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