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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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Articles by Mark Engler appear in:

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  • Christian Science Monitor
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  • In These Times
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  • Baltimore Sun
  • New Internationalist
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  • Znet / Z Magazine
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  • Alternet
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  • The Ecologist
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  • Global Beat Syndicate
  • Des Moines Register
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  • Common Dreams
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    2004 ARTICLES | JULY-DECEMBER

    Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.


    Seattle At Five Seattle At Five
    By Mark Engler
    Published on December 1, 2004

    Where activists stand five years after their landmark protests reshaped the globalization debate.
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    Additional Links: Counterpunch
    Español, Arabic



    The El Salvador Model The El Salvador Model
    By Mark Engler
    Published on December 1, 2004

    What are the lessons from the Salvadoran civil war for Iraq?
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    Additional Links: Newsday
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    Reporting from Labor's Borderlands Reporting from Labor's Borderlands
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the Winter 2004 issue of LiP Magazine

    A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
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    Additional Links: LiP Magazine
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    Is Rambo Still A Republican? Is Rambo Still A Republican?
    By Mark Engler
    Published in Radical Society,
    Volume 31 (2004), No. 1


    Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.
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    Additional Links: Radical Society: A Review of Culture and Politics



    Are the War and Globalization Really Connected? Are the War and Globalization Really Connected?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on October 19, 2004

    A discussion paper for Foreign Policy in Focus.


    A version of this paper was presented, as part of a wider disscussion of the global economy, at the Life After Capitalism 2004 conference, in a panel entitled "Is Neoliberalism Unravelling?."
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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy In Focus
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    Crimes in Freedom's Name Crimes in Freedom's Name:
    Dick Cheney's El Salvador

    By Mark Engler
    Published on October 8, 2004

    The Vice President brazenly disregards the truth of Central American history.
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    Additional Links: In These Times
    Español



    Old Dog, Same Tricks? Old Dog, Same Tricks?
    By Mark Engler and Jeremy Varon
    Published on September 15, 2004

    The CIA then and now.

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    Additional Links: CommonDreams
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    Republicans Among Us Republicans Among Us
    By Mark Engler
    Published on September 3, 2004

    A week in review from the Republican National Convention, inside and out.

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    Additional Links: Alternet, The Progressive Populist
    Español



    New York Says No New York Says "No"
    By Mark Engler
    Published on August 28, 2004

    Why the city will -- and should -- demonstrate against the Republican Convention.
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    Additional Links: Counterpunch
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    Why Wendell Matters Why Wendell Matters
    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.
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    Additional Links: Grist Magazine
    Español, Chinese



    Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist
    By Mark Engler
    Published on July 26, 2004

    A review of How to Succeed at Globalization by El Fisgón.
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    Additional Links: In These Times
    Español, Japanese



    Has U.S. Foreign Policy Failed? Has U.S. Foreign Policy "Failed"?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on July 8, 2004

    Analyzing "good faith" and "bad faith" criticisms of American actions.

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    Additional Links: CommonDreams, ZNet
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    Taking Back Your Time
    October 22, 2003

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