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  • Bush’s Bad Business Empire

    by Mark Engler November 3, 2005
    by Mark Engler November 3, 2005

    Making the World Unsafe for Microsoft and Mickey Mouse.

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  • Failures of an Economic Hit Man

    by Mark Engler April 18, 2005
    by Mark Engler April 18, 2005

    A review of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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  • Has U.S. Foreign Policy “Failed”?

    by Mark Engler July 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler July 8, 2004

    Analyzing “good faith” and “bad faith” criticisms of American actions.

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  • Contagious Defections

    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008

    How far will mainstream economics go in breaking with the increasingly discredited Washington Consensus?

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  • Casino Capitalism as Usual

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2009
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2009

    G20 leaves needed reforms for global economy off the table.

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  • Will the Winds of Change Reach El Salvador?

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2009
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2009

    The prospect of progressive leadership coming to power in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential elections should prompt new U.S. policy toward Central America.

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  • The Impact of the “Battle In Seattle”

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2008

    The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?

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  • The End of the “End of America”

    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008

    Essay for a symposium on “What’s Happening to America?”

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  • Obama’s Top Three Foreign Policy Priorities

    by FPIF Senior Analysts November 7, 2008
    by FPIF Senior Analysts November 7, 2008

    A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

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  • When the Betting Goes Bad

    by Mark Engler September 24, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 24, 2008

    A review of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008).

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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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  • Chicago Reader
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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
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
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