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War / Militarism

  • Even If You Have Nothing to Hide

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2013

    Story after story, fueled by leaks from former security contractor Edward Snowden, is uncovering a U.S. surveillance empire with unprecedented reach and breadth.

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  • There’s Always Money for War

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2013

    When American presidents let the bombs fall, they have plenty of support from those who make the bombs.

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  • End Illegal Spying; Don’t Shoot the Whistleblower

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2013

    Rather than facing unpleasant facts about runaway surveillance programs, lawmakers have preferred to kill the proverbial messenger.

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  • A Nobel Prize for Drone Strikes?: Obama’s War on Terror

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013

    Are you between age 16 and 60 in a part of the global South targeted by the Pentagon? Until proven innocent, you’re counted as a combatant if hit.

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  • How Many Gun Massacres More?

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013

    A radical proposal would go well beyond controlling the most aggressive semi-automatic rifles and curbing arms sales to the world’s worst dictatorships. It would also demand a change in our …

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  • Guantanamo Has Got to Go

    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012

    Protesting Ten Years of Indefinite Detention

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  • The Indestructable Osprey

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011

    Many agree that the V-22 Osprey is a major bust, so why does the government keep authorizing spending on it?

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  • Overcoming Empire Is Not for Spectators

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2011

    We cannot rely on catastrophe to save us.

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  • Ten Years After 9/11, Time to End Perpetual War

    by Mark Engler September 14, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 14, 2011

    Should the “War on Terror” come to an end?

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  • U.S. Military Spending Marches On

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011

    How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

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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
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