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 (AK Press), and a recipient of a 2007 Project Censored Award for his coverage of US military operations in Paraguay.

Currently

  • Obama Set for a Summit in the Sun

    April 16, 2009

    Barack Obama encounters Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for the first time at the Summit of the Americas, and the future of US-Latin America relations takes a new turn.

  • Lessons From Latin America

    March 4, 2009 Subscribe

    The region's social movements are a useful model for US leftists wanting to influence Obama.

2008

  • 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

» Act Now!

Defining Patriotism | What do you value in the traditions of your country?
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» Editor's Cut

Rediscovering Secular America | This Fourth of July those who identify themselves as non-believers have much cause for celebration.
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» The Beat

Palin Goes Gonzo | Quitting as governor but still talking about "campaigning," the GOP's wild woman from Wasilla tries to out-weird Mark Sanford.
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Celebrating the Fourth by Remembering the Fifth | On Independence Day, the forgotten and imperiled Fifth Amendment bears honoring.
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» Altercation

Mikey 'n' Me | I got closer to Michael Jackson than almost anyone, or at least closer than most people of the age of consent.
Eric Alterman

» Capitolism

Washington: Even More Corrupt Than You Thought! | Washington Post sells access to lobbyists.
Christopher Hayes
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Whisky Tango Foxtrot? | General Jones tells the generals in Kabul: don't bother asking for more troops.
Robert Dreyfuss
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