Benjamin Dangl

Benjamin Dangl is the founder of Upside Down World, an online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America, and editor of Toward Freedom, a progressive perspective on world events. He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, forthcoming from AK Press in March 2007, and a recipient of a 2007 Project Censored Award for his coverage of US military operations in Paraguay.

Currently

  • Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests

    May 3, 2008

    As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.

2007

  • Bolivia's Dance with Evo Morales

    March 29, 2007

    More than a year into President Evo Morales's first term, Bolivia remains in a labyrinth, somewhere between reform, revolution and national crisis.

2006

  • The US Military Descends on Paraguay

    July 12, 2006

    The US "war on terror" now extends to an unlikely frontier in Paraguay, where farmers are caught in the crossfire and human rights groups are skeptical of the threat posed by Islamic terrorists.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Feingold's Outline for a Constitutional Presidency | In a letter to Obama, Constitution subcommittee chair seeks a commitment to end executive excess.
John Nichols
Posted at 2:15 PM ET

» State of Change

Mukasey, Elliott Abrams Get Last-Minute Bush Appointments | Abusing the transition process to take care of aides, friends and supporters
John Nichols
Posted at 2:14 PM ET

» Capitolism

Yes to Special Elections for Senators | Remember the 17th amendment?
Christopher Hayes
Posted at 11:21 ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

Panetta? Ummmmm... Well..... | Could Obama have made a weirder choice for CIA director? Here's why Panetta is doomed.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Act Now!

Allow Media into Gaza | Israel is encouraging abuses by preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

A Trillion Dollar Recovery | We don't need a stimulus, we need a recovery. And that means investing $1 trillion over the next two years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Notion

Hard Times Without Studs | One of Terkel’s former book editors considers a Studs-less world.
Tom Engelhardt

» And Another Thing

Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again | The Weathermen were not just a bunch of idealistic young people.
Katha Pollitt