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  • American Empire Foreclosed?

    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009

    A reconsideration of U.S. power in a time of economic crisis.

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  • From Within the Labyrinth, A Call for Human Development

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2005
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2005

    The UN’s Human Development Program suggests alternatives to corporate globalization.

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  • The Birth of The Burning Bush

    by Paul Engler May 30, 2006
    by Paul Engler May 30, 2006

    How the Center for the Working Poor began.

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  • Taking Back Your Time

    by Mark Engler October 23, 2003
    by Mark Engler October 23, 2003

    Come October 24, if our country’s workload were on par with the rest of the industrialized world, you would have the rest of the year off.

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  • A History of Nonviolence

    by Mark Engler September 13, 2006
    by Mark Engler September 13, 2006

    The author of “Cod” suggests that the world’s most dangerous idea could have derailed the American Revolution, the Civil War and possibly even World War II.

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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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  • Memoirs from the “Architect of Black Power”

    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004

    A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).

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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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The Author

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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Mark’s Articles Appear In:

  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The Guardian
  • N+1
  • The New Republic
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • In These Times
  • Jacobin
  • TomDispatch
  • Convergence
  • The Forge
  • New Internationalist
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • Yes! Magazine
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
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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
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002