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Albert Einstein Institution in the News (Off-site links)
The New York Times - "Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, February 16, 2011.

The Daily Beast - Profile of Gene Sharp by Samuel P. Jacobs, February 14, 2011.

New York Times - "Dual Uprisings Show Potent New Threats to Arab States" by David D. Kirkpatrick and David E. Sanger, February 14, 2011

Scientific American - "Egypt's revolution vindicates Gene Sharp's theory of nonviolent activism" by John Horgan, February 11, 2011

National Catholic Reporter - Interview with Gene Sharp by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, February 4, 2011

CounterPunch - "Blind Faith and American Militarism" by Michael True, February 2, 2011

Jane's Intelligence Review - "Generation of '88, Kyaw Kyaw, NCUB director" - an interview with a member of the pro-democracy group in Burma, Oct 8, 2010

Pacific Daily News (Guam) - "People must know they have power" by A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, October 6, 2010

Associated Press - "Egypt's youth build new opposition Movement" by Sarah El Deeb, September 16, 2010

The New Yorker - "After the Crackdown, Talking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--and the opposition--about Iran today" by Jon Lee Anderson, August 16, 2010

Utne Reader - "Lessons from the Godfather: Interview with Gene Sharp" by Jeff Severns Guntzel, July 2010

ScientificAmerican.com - "How George W. Bush rejected my 'Sharp' idea for countering terrorism" by John Horgan, July 19, 2010

Jewish Herald-Voice - "How to get rid of a dictatorship" by Aaron Howard, Jan 14, 2010

Georgian Daily - "Georgia: Looking Back At The Rose Revolution" by Alex van Oss, December 31, 2009

The Spectrum & Daily News" - "Harvard academic's ideas reach Iran" by Tad Trueblood, December 31, 2009

The Christian Science Monitor - "Iran protesters: the Harvard professor behind their tactics" by Scott Peterson, December 29, 2009

The Boston Globe - "Revolution of the Mind" by Farah Stockman, December 20, 2009

The Daily Star - "Beware of a brittle Iran" December 10, 2009

Slovo (Slovakia) - "Studená vojna novej generácie: farebné revolúcie" by Leopold Moravčík, December 4, 2009 (Off-site link; Google automated translation)

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - "Gene Sharp: Theoretician Of Velvet Revolution" by Michael Hirshman, November 27, 2009

The Rushford Report - "An Inconvenient Man" by Greg Rushford, September 21, 2009

YES! Magaine - "Weapons of Mass Democracy: Nonviolent Resistance Is the Most Powerful Tactic Against Oppressive Regimes" by Stephen Zunes, September 16, 2009

The Associated Press - "Iran: new audience for US scholar's protest guide" by Sebastian Abbot and Katarina Kratovac, June 26, 2009

The Wall Street Journal - "American Revolutionary: Quiet Boston Scholar Inspires Rebels Around the World" by Philip Shishkin, September 13, 2008

The Financial Times - "Defiance undeterred: Burmese activists seek ways to oust the junta" by Amy Kazmin, December 6, 2007

The Phoenix (Boston) - "The Dictator Slayer" by Adam Reilly, December 5, 2007

Ohio State University Alumni Magazine - "The Most Influential Man You Don't Know" by Charlie Euchner, November-December, 2007
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Most are quite recent.
It would seem the word is leaking out--now, it's a big leak.
Even my old alumni,(one of them) Ohio State University, was grudgingly admiring, while slipping in the obligatory waffles and CYA phrases, and that's saying a lot.
 

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 02:07:22 AM EST

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