Freedom House Ratings, Freedom in the World 2009
2009: Political Rights: 7, Civil Liberties: 5, Status: Not Free
Measures of Freedom
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2006: 5.94 (out of 10)
2006: 5.94 (out of 10)
Articles
A Lesson from Vietnam, Part 1, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Jan 2004
A Lesson from Vietnam, Part 2, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Feb 2004
A Lesson from Vietnam, Part 3, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Mar 2004
Freedom, Hope, and Fear: The Paradox of Vietnam, Part 1, by Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, 13 Sep 2004
"Free enterprise will not be stopped. Capitalism is respected now for good reason. People are not starving. But police presence hovers. ... 'farmers ... save money. They own their ancestral lands, where family pagodas still stand. There is respect for private land ownership.'"
"Free enterprise will not be stopped. Capitalism is respected now for good reason. People are not starving. But police presence hovers. ... 'farmers ... save money. They own their ancestral lands, where family pagodas still stand. There is respect for private land ownership.'"
Freedom, Hope, and Fear: The Paradox of Vietnam, Part 2, by Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, 15 Sep 2004
"... the 1993 land law enabled people to inherit, exchange, lease, and mortgage land-use rights. A miracle brought about by giving people freedom, relative to what they had known in the past. ... 'Private property is not well protected,' he said. 'You have to bribe officials to get them to leave you alone. ...'"
"... the 1993 land law enabled people to inherit, exchange, lease, and mortgage land-use rights. A miracle brought about by giving people freedom, relative to what they had known in the past. ... 'Private property is not well protected,' he said. 'You have to bribe officials to get them to leave you alone. ...'"
Freedom, Hope, and Fear: The Paradox of Vietnam, Part 3, by Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, 17 Sep 2004
"'We are a communist country but 80 percent of us are capitalists. There is private enterprise everywhere and the government can't stop it now.' ... Ironically, the best known of Ho Chi Minh's dicta in Vietnam presents hope at the airport: 'Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.'"
"'We are a communist country but 80 percent of us are capitalists. There is private enterprise everywhere and the government can't stop it now.' ... Ironically, the best known of Ho Chi Minh's dicta in Vietnam presents hope at the airport: 'Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.'"
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, Nicaragua, United States
Lists countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency.
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, United States
Lists countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency.
Machiavelli and U.S. Politics, Part 5: War Crimes and Atrocities, by Lawrence M. Ludlow, 24 Aug 2005
Related Topics: Politics, World War II
"In Vietnam, the United States dropped more than 7 million tons of bombs &mdash three and one half times as much as were dropped in World War II. It is not surprising that in both North and South Vietnam, 2 million innocent civilians were killed in addition to 1 million Vietnamese soldiers."
Related Topics: Politics, World War II
"In Vietnam, the United States dropped more than 7 million tons of bombs &mdash three and one half times as much as were dropped in World War II. It is not surprising that in both North and South Vietnam, 2 million innocent civilians were killed in addition to 1 million Vietnamese soldiers."
Rambo Was A Chump: John Kerry Should Be Ashamed of Vietnam Service, by Ted Rall, 27 Aug 2004
Related Topics: War, Iraq
"Serious people and historians know that Kerry was right the first time around. Like Iraq, Vietnam was an ill-conceived, doomed war that wasted countless lives for no good reason, launched by a president who lied about a Cold War threat (the absurd "domino theory") that simply didn't exist."
Related Topics: War, Iraq
"Serious people and historians know that Kerry was right the first time around. Like Iraq, Vietnam was an ill-conceived, doomed war that wasted countless lives for no good reason, launched by a president who lied about a Cold War threat (the absurd "domino theory") that simply didn't exist."