Stories by Mark Engler
Mark Engler, a writer based in New York City, is a senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008). He can be reached via DemocracyUprising.com.
These days, establishment defectors from the doctrine of market fundamentalism are growing in number.
Posted on Jan 3, 2009
The U.S. spends as much on the military in a single year as it did in the $700 billion financial bailout. Yet the Pentagon is now calling for more.
Posted on Dec 24, 2008
The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?
Posted on Sep 29, 2008
All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist greed are bubbling up from the grassroots.
Posted on Sep 1, 2008
Today, trade policy plays an important role not just in the global economy, but also here at home. It goes hand-in-hand with demands for good jobs.
Posted on Apr 29, 2008
Despite the challenges presented by the current administration, the global justice movement has made impressive strides.
Posted on Dec 28, 2006
Judging by the lessons of Vietnam, public opinion has already tipped against the war on Iraq. All that remains is to hold the neocons accountable.
Posted on Feb 25, 2006
A review of "A Field Guide to Getting Lost," by Rebecca Solnit.
Posted on Aug 20, 2005
A week in review from the Republican National Convention, inside and out.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004
Meet El Fisgon, satirist, historian, and agitprop iconographer extraordinaire.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004
Highlighting one of the flaws in the upcoming CAFTA treaty, Harken Energy sues the nation of Costa Rica for $57 billion for enforcing its own environmental laws.
Posted on Mar 26, 2004
One year after the invasion of Iraq, what has the peace movement accomplished? And where do we go from here?
Posted on Mar 18, 2004
The end of Howard Dean's candidacy provides a good time to take stock of his dramatic reversal of fortune, and to appreciate his contribution to a revived Democratic Party.
Posted on Feb 17, 2004
The independent investigation into Iraq WMD claims must have power to look beyond technical intelligence-gathering processes and investigate how the White House misused findings in its push for war.
Posted on Feb 2, 2004
Critics questioned welfare reform during the prosperous '90s, but the real crisis is emerging in the wake of the Bush recession.
Posted on Sep 22, 2003
Does international public opinion about the United States really matter? Yes, and here's why.
Posted on Jul 3, 2003
When faced with environmental crises attributable to business interests cozy with the White House, the administration has developed an alternative response: suppress, ignore, preempt.
Posted on Apr 1, 2003
The Bush White House reserved its biggest Christmas gifts for corporate polluters and price-gouging drug companies this year.
Posted on Dec 27, 2002
Nobel prize laureates around the world have come out against Bush's unilateralist policy.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002
If the finance ministers at the IMF/World Bank meeting pay attention to the protestors, they will understand the cause for their economic woes: infectious greed.
Posted on Oct 1, 2002
The labor movement's embrace of immigrantion reform is based on the realization that there can be no worker's rights without immigrant rights.
Posted on Aug 28, 2002
A committed activist steps back to look at the April 20 anti-war protests and what they mean for the Bush administration, for Israel and for corporate globalization around the world.
Posted on Apr 22, 2002
President Bush is busy touting U.S. aid to developing countries, but experience in El Salvador shows how U.S.-devised neo-liberal policies deepen poverty and constrain human rights.
Posted on Mar 28, 2002
After easing off from tear gas during recent globalization protests, authorities returned whole-heartedly to the chemical violence in Quebec City. Why?
Posted on Apr 23, 2001
