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Znet Article Engler: The Trouble with CAFTA

Znet Article, February, 01 2004 Mark Engler
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On December 17 officials from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua finished negotiations with the United States on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA is a bad deal, one that promises to extend the harmful impacts of...

Znet Article Engler: Bush in Mexico

Znet Article, January, 25 2004 Mark Engler
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Ten years ago this month, masked rebels emerged from the mountains of Chiapas, the poorest region in Mexico, and stepped onto the world stage. They called themselves Zapatistas, taking up the Mexican Revolution's unfinished mission of promoting la...

Znet Article Engler: Miami's Trade Troubles

Znet Article, November, 24 2003 Mark Engler
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Jeb Bush wanted a win in Miami, and he got one, so the White House says. Any honest observer, however, knows that the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) failed before they ever began. Almost a week before the summit, trad...

Znet Article Engler: Victory In Miami?

Znet Article, November, 12 2003 Mark Engler
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Good news has arrived for people concerned with workers' rights and the state of the environment in the hemisphere: When trade ministers meet in Miami this month to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), their talks will probably fa...

Znet Article Engler: Activism's Autumn Harvest

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 Mark Engler
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Some people believe that social movements are fueled by misery -- that communities only start standing up for themselves when things get really bad. It's an appealing thought in difficult times. However, fear is historically a lousy engine of soli...

Znet Article Engler: False PRIDE

Znet Article, October, 08 2003 Mark Engler
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Given the state of our economy, one might expect a welfare reauthorization bill to offer emergency assistance to the poor and aid to those trapped in the low-wage workforce. Instead, the so-called Personal Responsibility and Individual Development...

Znet Article Engler: Ride Toward Freedom

Znet Article, September, 26 2003 Mark Engler
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Ride Toward Freedom

Znet Article Engler: Who Pays For Poverty?

Znet Article, September, 16 2003 Mark Engler
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The success of welfare reform is a faith-based proposition in Washington, D.C. This month, as lawmakers debate the reauthorizat...

Zmag Article Engler: Homeland Security for Whom?

Zmag Article, September, 01 2003 Mark Engler
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I n late May, an internal Department of Justice review confirmed what critics had long charged were frightening violations of civil liberties and due process in the wake of 9/11. The report sh...

Znet Article Engler: Globalization's Lost Decade

Znet Article, August, 05 2003 Mark Engler
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As far from Bill Clinton as the extremist George W. Bush appears today, certain things hold the same for both presidents, particularly concerning their treatment of the world's poorest nations. Each leader championed "free trade" and corporate glo...

Znet Article Engler: Hawks Say The Damnedest Things!

Znet Article, July, 17 2003 Mark Engler
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Keeping track of the "real reason" for the invasion of Iraq can be quite a chore these days. The Bush administration doggedly maintains that its claims about weapons of mass destruction were legitimate. Yet a litany of apologists has scrambled for...

Znet Article Engler: Global Showdown In Evian

Znet Article, May, 29 2003 Mark Engler
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Evian, France -- the world capital of designer water -- may be a fitting city to host the heads of state from the eight most powerful industrial nations. But the image of wealthy leaders sipping "l'original" gourmet H20 will hardly help the G8, as...

Znet Article Engler: Those Who Don't Count

Znet Article, May, 15 2003 Mark Engler
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Since the invasion of Iraq has ended, a tone of vindication and bravado has seeped into the national mood. Television newscasters and the Department of Defense agree: America is delighted. Soldiers are giving high-fives. Those of us who opposed th...

Znet Article Engler: Was Iraq Really A Threat?

Znet Article, April, 27 2003 Mark Engler
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Since Baghdad fell, Defense Department hawks have devoted themselves to gloating about the never-questioned supremacy of the United States' armed forces. However, the rest of the world's attention has shifted to examine the largely forgotten ratio...

Znet Article Engler: New York Against The War

Znet Article, February, 22 2003 Mark Engler
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Starting from within view of the United Nations' headquarters, a wall of faces stretched some twenty blocks up Manhattan's First Avenue on Saturday. The antiwar rally then widened to cover over large sections of Second and Third Avenues as well. W...

Znet Article Engler: CAFTA

Znet Article, January, 29 2003 Mark Engler
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Earlier this month, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick met with foreign ministers from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to launch official negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a treat...

Zmag Article Engler: Guatemala: Between Justice and Terror

Zmag Article, November, 01 2002 Mark Engler
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In the past year, a new wave of repression has swept through Guatemala. One of the many anonymous letters received by the country’s human rights activists reads, “In a war ...

Znet Article Engler: From The Quarantine Against Greed

Znet Article, October, 01 2002 Mark Engler
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I. Even without our protests telling them so, it must be obvious to the finance ministers who attend the annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank that their institutions are sick. Those inside the Washington, D.C., headquarters can't feel so healthy...

Znet Article Engler: Exporting Enron

Znet Article, June, 29 2002 Mark Engler
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We know the damage Enron has done to the American economy. So why is it still eligible to receive U.S. taxpayer money? Instead of wallowing in bankruptcy, Enron continues to do business internationally. And believe it or not, the scandal-ridden ...

Znet Article Engler: Bush Brewing Poverty And Violence In El Salvador

Znet Article, March, 23 2002 Mark Engler
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In advance of his visits to several Latin American countries, President Bush has focused public attention on U.S. aid to developing countries. As a result, the real purpose of his tour has gone unnoticed. Bush is using his time in Mexico, Peru, an...

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