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Does Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine hold water?
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How two guys with fake business cards punked Dow, Exxon, and the World Trade Organization.
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When would you take direct action to stop global warming?
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Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.
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How Thomas Friedman gets globalization wrong.
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Harvard's famous apologist for empire turns to praise the wonders of capital.
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Recent Articles
By Mark Engler
Published on January 12, 2012.
Protesting Ten Years of Indefinite Detention
By Mark Engler
Published on January 4, 2012.
The neighborly good cheer of the caucus I attended was almost enough to make me forget, at least for a few moments, that I was sitting four rows up in a set of bleachers packed full of rabid conservatives.
By Mark Engler
Published on December 30, 2011.
As caucus craziness reaches its peak in Iowa, the Occupy movement has not been left out.
By Mark Engler
Published in the December 2011 issue of the New Internationalist magazine.
Those who have joined the #Occupy movement are drawing strength from shared experience. They are laying bare the failure of a system. And they are doing something to change it.
By Mark Engler
Published on December 22, 2011.
Many agree that the V-22 Osprey is a major bust, so why does the government keep authorizing spending on it?
By Mark Engler
Published on November 30, 2011.
Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won’t be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning.
By Mark Engler
Published on November 29, 2011.
How “free trade” prevailed in the Obama White House.
Past Favorites
By Mark Engler
Published on January 15, 2010.
How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure.
By Mark Engler
Published on May 8, 2009.
Alex Rivera, director of the new film Sleep Dealer, imagines the future of the Global South.
By Mark Engler
Published on August 5, 2004.
Seventy years old this week, the veteran sage of sustainable agriculture has made a life of stewardship, “staying home”–and turning off the computer.
By Mark Engler
Published on April 24, 2002.
A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.
By Mark Engler
Published on April 17, 2009.
A reconsideration of U.S. power in a time of economic crisis.
By Mark Engler
Published on September 1, 2008.
All over the world, truly democratic approaches are bubbling up from the grassroots.
By Mark Engler
Published in the November 2006 issue of the New Internationalist.
Supporting ‘clean clothes’ campaigns to end the exploitative labour practices that pervade the textile industry is not as simple as just picking the ‘right’ brand to buy.
By Mark Engler
Published in Bad Subjects in October 2001.
A journey into Television City.
By Mark Engler
Published in the January 2005 issue of the New Internationalist.
The UN’s Human Development Program suggests alternatives to corporate globalization.
By Paul Engler
Published on May 30, 2006.
How the Center for the Working Poor began.
By Mark Engler
Published on 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.
A testimonial by Behrooz Arshadi, as told to Mark Engler.
Published in the March 2003 issue of The Progressive.
How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life
By Mark Engler
Published on May 9, 2003.
Why it matters to remember the Iraq War’s civilian victims.
By Mark Engler
Published on August 19, 2003.
A review of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
By Mark Engler
Published on December 2, 2005.
The Church of Stop Shopping hits the road.
By Mark Engler
Published on 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.
By Mark Engler
Published on November 3, 2005.
Making the World Unsafe for Microsoft and Mickey Mouse
By Mark Engler
Published on May 6, 2004.
A series of post-9/11 reflections.
By Mark Engler
Published on April 18, 2005.
A review of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
By Mark Engler
Published on July 8, 2004.
Analyzing “good faith” and “bad faith” criticisms of American actions.
By Mark Engler
Published on July 22, 2005.
A review of Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost.
By Mark Engler
Published in the December 2003 Issue of the New Internationalist.
Florida sugar growers milk taxpayers, farm workers, and endangered wetlands.
By Mark Engler
Published in the March 2004 issue of Z Magazine.
A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).
By Mark Engler
Published on September 3, 2004.
A week in review from the Republican National Convention, inside and out.
By Mark Engler
Published on August 28, 2004.
Why the city will — and should — demonstrate against the Republican Convention.