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  1. The gagging of dissent

    '60s, clandestine surveillance of "citizens objecting to the Vietnam War, demonstrating on behalf ... Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy By Lewis H. Lapham The ... Penguin Press, 2004 178 pages, US$19.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When the US went to war against Iraq, ...

  2. VIETNAM: 30 years after victory: Towards capitalism or socialism?

    denied US reparations. Then the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia launched a brutal three-year war ... Thailand armed the Khmer Rouge along the Thai border, while an embargo was imposed on Vietnam by the ... back, forced Vietnam to keep half a million troops on its northern border and double the size of its ...

  3. EAST ASIA: Japan takes role as Washington's deputy

    tone on China. Stating that the US has "considerable differences about values" with China, ... a member of the World Trade Organisation. On February 7 in Tokyo, under-secretary of state John Bolton, ... as is Japan's". On February 16, CIA director Porter Goss told a Senate committee that ...

  4. CUBA: 'What we have to change is the world'

    costs, on average, some US$8 million. Do the children of the rich go to the unjust and illegal war in ... Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva on March 17. The Commission on Human Rights has lost ... Ghraib? The guarantee of the enjoyment of human rights today depends on whether you live in a developed ...