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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:

  • Newsday
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • Salon.com
  • Dissent
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • TomPaine.com
  • In These Times
  • The Progressive
  • TomDispatch.com
  • Grist Magazine
  • Chicago Reader
  • MotherJones.com
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  • New Internationalist
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    NEW BOOK!


    How To Rule The World How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy
    By Mark Engler
    New release from Nation Books, April 2008.

    Read a description of Mark's first book, the latest reviews, an author bio, and information about upcoming book events.

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    There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule
    By Mark Engler
    Published on September 1, 2008

    All over the world, truly democratic approaches are bubbling up from the grassroots.

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    Additional Links: AlterNet



    Obama Should Stay Tough on Trade
    By Mark Engler
    Published on July 18, 2008

    The general elections are not time for an embrace of the "corporate globalization" agenda for the Americas.

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    Additional Links: Des Moines Register, Foreign Policy in Focus
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    The World is Not Flat
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the May/June 2008 issue of Dollars & Sense

    How Thomas Friedman gets it wrong about globalization. An excerpt from How to rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).

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    Additional Links: Dollars & Sense



    Globalizers, Neocons, or... ?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on May 18, 2008

    The new politics of fighting empire after Bush.

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    Additional Links: TomDispatch, Mother Jones
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    Capitalism as Catastrophe
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the Spring 2008 issue of Dissent Magazine

    A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

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    Additional Links: Dissent Magazine



    Free Trade and the Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party Free Trade and the Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party
    By Mark Engler
    Published on April 23, 2008

    An excerpt from How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy.

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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy in Focus



    Latin America Banks on Independence Latin America Banks on Independence
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the February 2008 issue of In These Times

    The new Bank of the South assaults neoliberal economics.

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    Globalization's Mad Scientist Globalization's Mad Scientist
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the Summer 2007 issue of Dissent Magazine

    Joseph Stiglitz's lack of political savvy has produced both a withering critique of IMF-led corporate globalization and a failed vision for how to move beyond it.

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    Fair Trade Sweatshops? Fair Trade Sweatshops?
    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.

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    Additional Links: New Internationalist
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    A History of Nonviolence A History of Nonviolence
    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.

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    Additional Links: Salon.com



    When the Dollars Stop Making Sense How Costly Is Too Costly?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on February 23, 2006

    Finding the tipping point for Vietnam -- and for Iraq.

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    Additional Links: TomDispatch.com, MotherJones.com
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    Bush's Bad Business Empire Bush's Bad Business Empire
    By Mark Engler
    Published on November 3, 2005

    Making the World Unsafe for Microsoft and Mickey Mouse.

    A shorter version of this article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle under the title, "Has 'War' become a leading brand for United States?"

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    Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Français, Español



    The Birth of The Burning Bush The Birth of The Burning Bush
    By Paul Engler
    Published on May 30, 2006

    How the Center for the Working Poor began.
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    Additional Links: Center for the Working Poor



    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
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    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
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    Treated Like Criminal Treated Like a Criminal
    An interview with Behrooz Arshadi by Mark Engler
    Published in The Progressive, March 2003

    How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life

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    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.

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    Those Who Don't Count Those Who Don't Count
    By Mark Engler
    Published on May 9, 2003

    Why it matters to remember the Iraq War's civilian victims.
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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com
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    In God's Country In God's Country
    By Mark Engler
    Published on August 19, 2003 in In These Times

    A review of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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    Additional Links: In These Times
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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
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    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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    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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    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



    The End of Gap Sweatshops? The End of Gap Sweatshops?
    By Mark Engler
    Published on June 29, 2004

    Victories and challenges for the anti-sweatshop movement.

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    Additional Links: In These Times
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