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  • Overcoming Empire is Not a Spectator Sport

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2011

    The United States may be in geopolitical decline, but futurist predictions do not make the work ahead of us any less demanding.

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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 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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  • Are the War and Globalization Really Connected?

    by Mark Engler October 19, 2004
    by Mark Engler October 19, 2004

    A discussion paper for Foreign Policy in Focus.

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  • Remembering Romero

    by Mark Engler March 18, 2005
    by Mark Engler March 18, 2005

    With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.

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  • The Anti-War Moment

    by Mark Engler September 23, 2005
    by Mark Engler September 23, 2005

    With polls turning and Congress restless, timing is ripe for a return of organized resistance to the war in Iraq.

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  • Truth Versus Superpower

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2006

    Defying the Bush Administration’s neoconservative worldview, El Salvador’s historic Truth Commission Report has once again become a living document.

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  • How Costly Is Too Costly?

    by Mark Engler February 23, 2006
    by Mark Engler February 23, 2006

    Finding the tipping point for Vietnam—and for Iraq.

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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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  • Crimes in Freedom’s Name

    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004

    Dick Cheney’s El Salvador.

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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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