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Mark Engler is a writer based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).

Mark also serves as a commentator for the Institute for Public Accuracy and for the Mainstream Media Project.

An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Mark has previously worked with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica, and is a member of the National Writers Union (UAW, Local 1881).

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    2002 ARTICLES | JANUARY-AUGUST

    Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.


    Immigrant Rights Are Workers' Rights Immigrant Rights Are Workers' Rights
    by Mark Engler
    Published on August 28, 2002

    A Labor Day Commentary

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    Additional Links: Alternet, The Progressive Populist



    Guatemala: Testimony of the Dead Guatemala: Testimony of the Dead
    by Mark Engler and Alexandra Durbin
    Published in the New Internationalist, July 2002

    Former dictators brought to justice by their victims

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    Additional Links: New Internationalist, Progreso Weekly
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    Enron Abroad

    Enron: A Toxic Export Enron: A Toxic Export
    by Nadia Martinez and Mark Engler
    Published in Red Pepper, August 2002

    European governments are also implicated in financing corporate corruption.

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    Additional Links: Red Pepper



    Bankrolling Enron's Empire Bankrolling Enron's Empire
    by Nadia Martinez and Mark Engler
    Published on June 13, 2002

    The scandal-ridden corporation received billions in public funds -- and it still wants more.

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    Additional Links: Baltimore Sun, TomPaine.com
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    Whither a New Internationalism? Whither a New Internationalism?
    by Mark Engler
    Published in New Politics, Summer 2002

    A review of Upside Down by Eduardo Galeano

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    Additional Links: New Politics, The Voice of the Turtle



    Ordinary Outrages Ordinary Outrages
    by Mark Engler
    Published on April 24, 2002

    A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.

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    Additional Links: PopPolitics.com, Z Magazine
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    Marching for a Global Peace Marching for a Global Peace
    by Mark Engler
    Published on April 22, 2002

    Militaristic responses may be simpler than multi-issue protests, but they cannot make the world a safer place.

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    Additional Links: Alternet, The Voice of the Turtle
    Japanese



    Brewing Poverty and Violence in El Salvador Brewing Poverty and Violence in El Salvador
    by Mark Engler
    Published on April 22, 2002

    While President Bush has emphasized US aid to developing countries, the Salvadoran experience shows how the economic policies he is promoting on his Latin American tour work to deepen poverty and impede progress toward human rights.

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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com, Alternet, The Voice of the Turtle
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    The Politics of Persistence The Politics of Persistence
    by Mark Engler
    February 2002

    To answer the question "Are 'anti-globalization' protests destined for irrelevance in a political landscape transformed by September 11?" we must ask, "Why were they relevant in the first place?"

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    Taking Back Your Time
    October 22, 2003

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    May 6, 2004

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    September 8, 2003

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