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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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    2007 - 2008 ARTICLES

    Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.


    The Day After: Amid Celebrations, A New Fight Begins
    By Mark Engler
    Published on November 5, 2008

    Reflections on the election of Barack Obama.

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    Additional Links: Dissent



    Obama's Top Three Foreign Policy Priorities
    By FPIF Senior Analysts
    Published on November 7, 2008

    A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy In Focus



    The Impact of the "Battle In Seattle"
    By Mark Engler
    Published on September 29, 2008

    The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?

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    Additional Links: AlterNet



    When the Betting Goes Bad
    By Mark Engler
    Published on September 24, 2008

    A review of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008).

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    Additional Links: Foreign Policy in Focus



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

    All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist greed are bubbling up from the grassroots.

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    Additional Links: AlterNet
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Additional Links: In These Times
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    Progressive Good Tidings of 2007 Progressive Good Tidings of 2007
    By Mark Engler
    Published on December 22, 2007

    Along with political challenges, the past year offered some hopeful advances-- many of which came just in last few weeks.

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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com, ZNet
    Español, Thai



    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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    Defining the Anti-Globalization Movement Anti-Globalization Movement
    By Mark Engler
    Published April 2007

    An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.

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    Additional Links: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice



    Defining the Catholic Worker Movement Catholic Worker Movement
    By Mark Engler
    Published April 2007

    An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.

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    Additional Links: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice



    Bush's Latin American Spring Break Bush's Latin American Spring Break
    By Mark Engler
    Published on March 7, 2007

    The President's trip south of the border will do little to sway a region that is demanding fairer economic policies.

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    Additional Links: TomPaine.com
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    America's Own Worst Enemy America's Own Worst Enemy
    By Mark Engler
    Published in the March 6, 2007 of in In These Times

    A Review of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson.

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