Foreign Policy in Focus/Intitute for Policy Studies,
June 27, 2008, By John Feffer, Stephen Zunes [Source]
Gene Sharp, an 80-year-old scholar of strategic nonviolent action and veteran of radical pacifist causes, is under attack by a number of foreign governments that claim that he and his small research institute are key players in a Bush administration plot against them. Though there is no truth to these charges, several leftist web sites and publications have been repeating such claims as fact. This raises disturbing questions regarding the ability of progressives challenging Bush foreign policy to distinguish between the very real manifestations of U.S. imperialism and conspiratorial fantasies. PETITION supporting Dr. Gene Sharp, foremost author-expert on Strategic Nonviolent Action