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On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. This likely appointment was…
Mark Engler
Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-author of "This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century" (Nation Books). He can be reached via the website www.DemocracyUprising.com.
In June 2007, on a warm Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, presidential candidate Barack Obama rolled up his white shirtsleeves and addressed…
“Prisoners of Guantanamo turn right,” yelled the marshal. “Prisoners forward!” In response to the call, several hundred people dressed in orange…
As caucus craziness reached its peak in Iowa, the Occupy Movement was not left out. The Des Moines Register reported in a notably favorable front-page…
As caucus craziness reaches its peak here in Iowa, the Occupy movement has not been left out. As the Des Moines Register reported Wednesday…
More than 40 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard of Barack Obama, before the collapse of Bear Stearns, and before…
A month after it began with a few hundred people marching on Wall Street, the #Occupy movement has grown to include tens…
#OccupyWallStreet is evolving. Now in its third week, the protest movement not only continues to grow—it is maturing and becoming stronger in…
The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the Communications Workers of America…
This might be an opportune time to make a disclosure: I am a BP shareholder. Admittedly, I’ve never attended the company’s annual…