What does it mean that the ccTLD's are completely or partly run from the U.S? Are you referring to the hardware equipment or the actual administration of the ccTLD business, or boths?
It appears to include any TLD that has a mirror DNS server in the U.S. I agree that's not very useful. R's, John PS:
Among the more egregious examples are Moldova (.MD) which is run by someone in New Jersey and used to market "medical professional" sites and Laos (.LA) which is used as the TLD for "Los Angeles", go the the .LA root site and there is nothing about Laos rather traffic and weather for Los Angeles.
Lots of small countries have sold their ccTLDs for use as vanity domains. Don't forget .TV .CC .CX .ME .NU and .WS. It's not a particularly great idea, but the principle that countries can do what they want with their ccTLDs has been well established for about two decades.