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  • Det er legitimt nu at tale om at stryge gælden

    by Mark Engler July 5, 2005
    by Mark Engler July 5, 2005

    Mark Engler quoted in a Danish article on debt.

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  • Abandoning the World Bank (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2006

    Pitfalls When Right and Left Agree. (Translation into Arabic by ahewar.org)

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  • The Return of Daniel Ortega (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler November 10, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 10, 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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  • Palm Trees in the Snow

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2011

    There are no palm trees in Wisconsin. And public fiscal problems were not caused by union greed.

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  • In Review: Ted Nace’s Climate Hope

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010

    On the front lines in the fight against coal.

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  • Breaking From the Dismal Life

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2010

    Market-based thinking has imperiled the planet and created the need for a democratic rebirth, argues Raj Patel in The Value of Nothing.

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  • Soul of a Citizen: A Review

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010

    Paul Rogat Loeb’s well-regarded 1999 book on activism is out in a revised and updated edition.

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  • Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go?

    by Mark Engler April 14, 2010
    by Mark Engler April 14, 2010

    At an FPIF panel on Afghanistan at the Left Forum, panelists agreed that there are no military solutions to the current situation but disagreed on whether U.S. troops should leave …

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  • The Midterms and Misery Theory

    by Mark Engler November 8, 2010
    by Mark Engler November 8, 2010

    A contribution to a Dissent magazine symposium on the 2010 midterm elections.

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  • The El Salvador Model

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004

    What are the lessons from the Salvadoran civil war for Iraq?

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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
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