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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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  • MotherJones.com
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    BOOK REVIEWS ARCHIVE


    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



    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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    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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    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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    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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    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



    Introduction to 'The Republicans' Introduction to "The Republicans"
    By Mark Engler
    Published on June 16, 2006

    A book of photographs by Steve Simon.

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    The Latin American Roots of Empire The Latin American Roots of Empire
    By Mark Engler
    Published on May 8, 2006

    A review of Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin.

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    Additional Links: MotherJones.com



    Hook, Line, and Suckers Hook, Line, and Suckers
    By Mark Engler
    Published on October 1, 2005

    Barbara Ehrenreich moves up the class ladder.

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    Additional Links: In These Times



    When Lost Is Found When Lost Is Found
    By Mark Engler
    Published on July 21, 2005

    A review of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.

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    Additional Links: In These Times
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    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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    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



    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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    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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    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
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    Memoirs from the Memoirs from the "Architect of Black Power"
    By Mark Engler and Paul Engler
    Published in the March 2004 issue of Z Magazine

    A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).

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    Schlosser's Agenda Schlosser's Agenda
    By Mark Engler
    Published on December 11, 2003

    A review of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser.

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    Additional Links: LiP Magazine
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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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    Love, Freedom, Empire Love, Freedom, Empire
    By Mark Engler
    Published in Z Magazine, July/August 2003

    A Review of Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley

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    The Sideshow Rebels The Sideshow Rebels
    by Mark Engler
    Published on September 5, 2002

    A review of Sideshow, USA and Jay's Journal of Anomalies

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    Additional Links: PopPolitics.com



    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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