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  • Old Dog, Same Tricks?

    by Mark Engler and Jeremy Varon September 15, 2004
    by Mark Engler and Jeremy Varon September 15, 2004

    The CIA then and now.

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  • A Progressive Declaration Against Terror

    by Mark Engler June 18, 2004
    by Mark Engler June 18, 2004

    Fighting terror while opposing Bush.

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  • On the Necessity of Torture

    by Mark Engler May 11, 2004
    by Mark Engler May 11, 2004

    Ending abuses requires challenging an imperial conception of national purpose.

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  • The Peace Movement One Year Later

    by Mark Engler March 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 16, 2004

    One year after the invasion of Iraq, what has the peace movement accomplished? And where do we go from here?

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  • U.N. Spies and Iraq War Lies

    by Mark Engler March 3, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 3, 2004

    While spying on one’s allies may not be unusual at the UN, new charges against the US and Britain paint a damning picture of the unseemly push for war in …

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  • The Iraqi Monkey Crisis

    by Mark Engler February 24, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 24, 2004

    Bush’s invocation of the Cuban Missile Crisis to justify war in Iraq was absurd—but telling.

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  • “The Leak” Still Drips of Scandal

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2004

    Before 2004’s presidential elections every American should take another look at the Bush administration’s outing of an undercover CIA agent.

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  • The WMD Blame Game

    by Mark Engler February 2, 2004
    by Mark Engler February 2, 2004

    The independent investigation into Iraq WMD claims must have power to look beyond technical intelligence-gathering processes and investigate how the White House misused findings in its push for war.

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  • Mark Twain in Iraq?

    by Mark Engler October 27, 2003
    by Mark Engler October 27, 2003

    The famous writer championed a proud tradition American anti-imperialism.

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  • Hawks Say The Damnedest Things!

    by Mark Engler July 10, 2003
    by Mark Engler July 10, 2003

    If you want an indication of how deep the WMD scandal goes, just look at what the apologists admit about the “real reasons” for war.

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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
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