1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
2. Connexions Library: East and Southeast Asia Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on east and southeast Asia.
3. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
4. For Reasons of State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1973
   Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
5. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1973
   An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
6. Killing Hope 
   U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
7. Laos After the Bombs
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
8. Manufacturing Consent 
   The Political Economy of the Mass Media
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
9. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
10. The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."
11. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
12. A Visit to Laos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Chomsky shares an account of his 1970 visit to Laos, revealing the heavy atmosphere owing to foreign power presence. "The US has penetrated every phase of existence (as well as destruction)." He explores Laos' recent political history in the contexts of the Pathet Laos and American involvement, as well as the difference between the local and American understandings of where the source of conflict lies.
    
13. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
    

Experts on Laos in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Development Bank
2. La Francophonie
3. United Nations