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Over the past ten years, the Yes Men have emerged as an infamously daring and creative duo of anti-corporate pranksters. In their…
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.
Last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh brought together leaders from the most significant players in the global economy and…
In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers…
Clip from the film… Tapping into a long tradition of politicized science fiction, the young, New-York-based filmmaker Alex Rivera has brought…
Not long ago, excitement over American imperialism reached levels not seen in a century. “People are coming out of the closet on…
A desire for change isn’t a sentiment unique to voters in the United States, and it’s not something that our country should…
At the end of a long electoral season marked by bipartisan vows to bring "change," America’s massive military budget remains a hulking…
The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?…
A review of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008). Rarely…
One of the remarkable features of modern political life is how consistently global elites deny that viable alternatives to the current global…