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Freedom House Ratings, Freedom in the World 2003
2003: Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3, Status: Partly Free, Economy: Capitalist-statist |
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World: 2003 Annual Report
2001: 6.4 (out of 10) |
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World: 2004 Annual Report
2002: 6.4 (out of 10) |
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Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2005: 6.5 (out of 10) |
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Improve the CIA? Better to abolish it, by Chalmers Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb 2004
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, United States, Vietnam
Lists countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency. |
Totalitarian Busybodies: The horrors of the Stasi’s East Germany, by Glenn Garvin, Reason, Jan 2006
Related Topics: Germany, Cuba
Review of Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder and After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next by Jana Hensel
"In ... revolutionary Nicaragua, the [government] created watch committees on every block ... called Committees for the Defense of Sandinismo ... They encouraged neighbors to engage in 'revolutionary vigilance'—that is, to rat out one another for anything ... that seemed suspicious or contrary to the regime's moral and political orthodoxies." |
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