Foreign Policy magazine rates the least free places on Earth. North Korea "tops" them all, naturally. Libya, the most thoroughly totalitarian place I've ever visited, makes the grade. Some of the pet countries of fools, such as Cuba and "liberated" South Ossetia (in Georgia), are listed, too.
Posted by Michael J. Totten at July 8, 2009 7:28 PM
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