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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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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/25/08
This week: The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks for the first time about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: Dave Zirin recaps the olympic highs and lows, Barbara Crossette considers the future for Pakistan and John Nichols and historian Adele Oltman preview the Democratic Convention in the context of Dr. Martin Luther King's dream. (13mb mp3)

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