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Engler: Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?
Znet Article, December, 16 2005
Mark Engler
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Although much is at stake at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong this week, the success of the talks will largely hinge on one issue: the willingness of the U.S., Japan, and the European Union to live up to their own "free trade"...
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Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Mark Engler
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The Bush administration has a reputation for creating an unusually business-friendly White House. Put Dick Cheney's secretive Energy Task Force and massive tax cuts together with corporate lobbyists writing regulations for their own industries, an...
Engler: Anti-War Moment
Znet Article, September, 24 2005
Mark Engler
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Growing public dissatisfaction; rumblings in Congress against indefinite occupation; expressions of organized resistance. These three factors represent the pillars of opposition to the war in Iraq. Each can fortify the others, and together they co...
Engler: CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death
Commentary, July, 16 2005
Mark Engler
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While the Bush Administration still aspires to ward off defeat, it is becoming increasingly clear that its failure to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) represents the latest in a series of setbacks for its sputtering trade age...
Engler: Responding to the Debt Deal: Where's The Jubilee?
Znet Article, July, 05 2005
Mark Engler
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Seeing President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair touting their good deeds on behalf of the world's poor is enough to make any opponent of empire and corporate globalization cringe. Perhaps because of this objectionable sight, ...
Engler: CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death
Znet Article, June, 27 2005
Mark Engler
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While the Bush Administration still aspires to ward off defeat, it is becoming increasingly clear that its failure to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) represents the latest in a series of setbacks for its sputtering trade age...
Engler: CAFTA
Znet Article, June, 04 2005
Mark Engler
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The pressure is on for the survival intact of the Bush administration's larcenous "free trade" policies, at least in their most virulent form. Writing on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the Washington Post last week (1), Rober...
Engler: Triumph Over Debt?
Znet Article, May, 22 2005
Mark Engler
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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. An old maxim in social movements (ada...
Engler: John Paul II's Economic Ethics
Commentary, April, 07 2005
Mark Engler
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A steady feature in Pope John Paul II's obituaries has been mention of his unwaveringly conservative stances on issues such as abortion, birth control, gay rights, and the ordination of women. While these positions were sources of consternation fo...
Engler: Remembering Romero
Znet Article, March, 26 2005
Mark Engler
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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. Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot down while c...
Engler: The Last Porto Alegre
Znet Article, February, 14 2005
Mark Engler
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It's not Paris or Tokyo, Beijing or New York. Nor is it São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil will tell you that their modest city of 1.5 million people in the country's deep South is "the last bastion of s...
Engler: Seattle At Five
Znet Article, December, 05 2004
Mark Engler
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Those who recall an era before Bush may remember the images: Five years ago this week, demonstrators flooded the streets of Seattle to protest the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Environmentalists dressed like sea ...
Engler: Crimes in Freedom's Name
Znet Article, October, 08 2004
Mark Engler
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Crimes in Freedom's Name
Engler: Republicans Among Us
Znet Article, September, 03 2004
Mark Engler
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It was the largest demonstration in American history ever to greet a national political convention. On Sunday, as the Republicans prepared to launch a week-long media extravaganza in Madison Square Garden, over 400,000 protesters, blanketing two m...
Engler: Has US Foreign Policy Failed?
Znet Article, July, 07 2004
Mark Engler
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Progressives face an important choice when framing their arguments about what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy--a decision about which of two perspectives they will adopt. A first perspective is based on what can be called a "good faith" view of ...
Engler: Bush's Globalization
Znet Article, June, 08 2004
Mark Engler
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Since Attorney General John Ashcroft recently warned of a possible attack on American soil, the protests taking place outside this week's G-8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia have been overshadowed by the specter of terrorism. This is unfortunate, be...
Engler: Unhappy Birthday, World Bank!
Commentary, May, 21 2004
Mark Engler
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In 1994, when the IMF and World Bank were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their creation, very few people in this country could tell you anything about the twin fixtures of corporate globalization. "Globalization" itself was only beginning...
Engler: Oiled Again
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Mark Engler
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When most people think of Costa Rica, they don't imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do ...
Engler: The Peace Movement One Year Later
Znet Article, March, 17 2004
Mark Engler
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One year after the start of war in Iraq, the peace movement in the United State...
Engler: Suffocating the CIA Agent Outing Scandal
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Mark Engler
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T he scandal known in Washington, DC as "The Leak" is not an easy story to understand. Most people I have talked to have only a vague sense of the basic facts: that the Bush administration tri...
