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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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    2005 ARTICLES | JANUARY-JUNE

    Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.


    Where's The Jubilee? Where's The Jubilee?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on June 28, 2005

    The G8 debt deal should provide an opportunity for us to claim our victories while still pushing for more.

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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com
    Español, Arabic



    CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death
    By Mark Engler
    Published on June 20, 2005

    The White House's failure to push forward its latest "free trade" deal is a victory for working people throughout the Americas.

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    Additional Links: Newsday
    Deutsch, Español



    Credit Globalization Movement for Debt Victory Credit Globalization Movement for Debt Victory
    By Mark Engler
    Published on June 16, 2005

    Ten years of pressure led to change of wealthy nations' position.

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    Additional Links: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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    Debt Cancellation: Historic Victories, New Challenges Debt Cancellation: Historic Victories, New Challenges
    By Mark Engler
    Published on May 19, 2005

    How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries--now being debated by wealthy nations--was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement.

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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy In Focus, Asia Times
    Italiano, Español



    Failures of an Economic Hit Man Failures of an Economic Hit Man
    By Mark Engler
    Published on April 18, 2005

    A review of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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    Additional Links: In These Times
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    John Paul II's Economic Ethics John Paul II's Economic Ethics
    By Mark Engler
    Published on April 4, 2005

    The departed Pope's vision of an alternative globalization should challenge narrow debate about "moral values."

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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy In Focus, Asia Times
    Español, Czech



    Remembering Romero Remembering Romero
    By Mark Engler
    Published on 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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    Additional Links: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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    From Within the Labyrinth, A Call for Human Development From Within the Labyrinth, A Call for Human Development
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the January 2005 issue of the New Internationalist

    The UN's Human Development Program suggests alternatives to corporate globalization.

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    No Better Place No Better Place
    By Mark Engler
    Published on February 28, 2005

    The fiction of Wendell Berry.

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    Additional Links: In These Times
    Español



    The Last Porto Alegre The Last Porto Alegre
    By Mark Engler
    Published on February 14, 2005

    Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years.

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    Additional Links: New Internationalist, Foreign Policy in Focus
    Español, Arabic, Thai



    Time To Cancel Tsunami Countries' Debt Time To Cancel Tsunami Countries' Debt
    By Mark Engler
    Published on January 10, 2005

    In the wake of the natural disaster, the real need is to go beyond a freeze on payments and to promote debt cancellation for impoverished countries.
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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com
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    Taking Back Your Time
    October 22, 2003

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    September 31, 2002

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