Foreign Policy In Focus, January 24, 2008
By John Feffer, Stephen Zunes
The United States has done for the cause of democracy what the Soviet Union did for the cause of socialism. Not only has the Bush administration given democracy a bad name in much of the world, but its high-profile and highly suspect “democracy promotion” agenda has provided repressive regimes and their apologists an excuse to label any popular pro-democracy movement that challenges them as foreign agents, even when led by independent grassroots nonviolent activists…
http://www.fpif.org/reports/nonviolent_action_and_pro-democracy_struggles