FPIF Senior Analyst, Mark Engler, is a writer based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).
An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Mark also serves as a commentator for the Institute for Public Accuracy and for the Mainstream Media Project.
Most U.S. foreign aid is not meant to address poverty.
The idea that Martin Luther King, Jr. would bless our presence in Afghanistan is an insult to his memory.
Victory was ours, on a few occasions anyway.
The impact of celebrity activists working within the system is limited.
Chalmers Johnson believed that the United States risks “losing our democracy to keep our empire.”
President Obama’s rightward drift continues.
Nestor Kirchner revived his country’s economy.
A new documentary looks at the costs of U.S. and global military spending.
The myth that anti-Vietnam protesters spit on returning veterans lives on.
One reason the Green Movement never quite became a revolution.
Aside to Jon Stewart: the tone of political debate has less to do with volume and more to do with content.
Immigration actually stimulates the economy.
Don’t supply and demand dictate that new immigrants will steal jobs and drive down wages for U.S. citizens? A leading immigration economist explains why not.
Early on at the U.S. Social Forum, I was struck by the disjuncture between the huge ambition of the assembly and the limitations of the conference’s agenda and slate of decentralized workshops.
At an FPIF panel on Afghanistan at the recent Left Forum in New York, panelists agreed that there are no military solutions to the current situation but disagreed on whether U.S. troops should leave as soon as possible.
G20 leaves needed reforms for global economy off the table.
Alex Rivera, director of the new film Sleep Dealer, imagines the future of the Global South.
Is the United States running out of power at this time of economic crisis?
We asked FPIF’s senior analysts to weigh in on the future course of American foreign policy: maintenance of empire or its rejection?
The prospect of progressive leadership coming to power in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential elections should prompt a new U.S. policy toward Central America.