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The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins > In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA’s secret interventions were so successful.
>In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.
If anyone wants a more specific case study, The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins is a really good (and horrifying) historical account on the US/CIA's intervention in the affairs of another nation.
This person seems more interested in insulting you than having a conversation, but these sentiments don't come from nowhere. I'd encourage you to familiarize yourself with the history of the agency if you are seriously interested in it.
There's a new book out called The Jakarta Method that details some of the CIA's activities during the Cold War that I'd recommend. It's hard to get more recent histories due to document classification, but it will give you a perspective that will help explain why people feel so strongly about this issue.
Hm, the Jakarta method, rhe example I gave is awesome. he blends personal accounts with the history of the CIAs strategy of violent meddling specifically in Indonesia with US strategy globally like in a way that reads like good, very sad literature
I would also recommend anyone looking for a more detailed source material read The Jakarta Method (written by the author of that article). It's sources are quite detailed and extensive, and include how this methodology influenced CIA operations in numerous other countries.
Manufacturing Consent is great for conveying the kind of compounding self-selection of state and media apparatus. It's useful to have a conception of problems as systemic and reoccurring, and not just the result of bad actors.
Oh, The Jakarta Method also seems like a very good text. I haven't read it yet, but by all accounts it's a great overview of the disgusting anti-communist networks that were nourished by the US following WW2, and of the repeated mass murder that was used to enforce the impoverishment of the global south.
Have you heard of the Cold War? There was a global assault on anything resembling the left. Have you heard of the Indonesian genocide, facilitated and coordinated by the US and UK? Have you heard of the death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua exterminated entire villages and bayoneting babies? Have you heard of Gladio? Have you heard of the Vietnam War? Laos? Cambodia? Tens of millions killed in SE Asia alone.
The only communist regimes that survived were the ones that were authoritarian, because they were all under constant assault by global capital. If they were democratically elected, they were assassinated or overthrown in a coup. Even non-communists weren't spared. Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Iran, Congo, Greece, Italy, the list is endless. All because of the big bad Russian boogeyman. Things haven't changed much.
To put it briefly: Allende died, Castro survived.
Read The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins to get a better idea of what the "democratic" countries did to secure their power.
He was a very busy man when it came to dealing with Marxists.
Edit: Marxists in the general sense, because that's was the plan all along since the beginnings of the Cold War, eliminate left wing power to insure global hegemony.
The book "The Jakarta Method" goes into detail and is a very nice overview of this often overlooked part of the cold war.
>The Jakarta Method makes clear some basic points that popular conceptions of history get wrong. The Cold War was not won, capitalism was not spread, the U.S. sphere of influence was not enlarged just by example or even by Hollywood promotion of something desirable, but also significantly by murdering masses of men, women, and children with dark skin in poor countries without getting U.S. troops killed which might have caused someone to start caring. The secretive, cynical CIA and alphabet soup of unaccountable agencies accomplished almost nothing over the years through spying and snooping — in fact those efforts were almost always counterproductive on their own terms.
>The tools that overthrew governments and imposed corporate policies and sucked out profits and raw materials and cheap labor were not just propaganda tools and not just the carrots of aid to brutal dictators, but also, perhaps first and foremost: the machete, the rope, the gun, the bomb, and the electric wire.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
I read this book recently
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
And it has been really good in explaining why many communist nations collapsed, or had to get more radical to survive during the Cold War, from Pinochet to Pol Pot and many other rises and falls of leaders.
It is very enlightening and only $20.
He explains it a lot better than I could, and theres even some recently uncovered things in there.
>The Jakarta Method makes clear some basic points that popular conceptions of history get wrong. The Cold War was not won, capitalism was not spread, the U.S. sphere of influence was not enlarged just by example or even by Hollywood promotion of something desirable, but also significantly by murdering masses of men, women, and children with dark skin in poor countries without getting U.S. troops killed which might have caused someone to start caring. The secretive, cynical CIA and alphabet soup of unaccountable agencies accomplished almost nothing over the years through spying and snooping — in fact those efforts were almost always counterproductive on their own terms. The tools that overthrew governments and imposed corporate policies and sucked out profits and raw materials and cheap labor were not just propaganda tools and not just the carrots of aid to brutal dictators, but also, perhaps first and foremost: the machete, the rope, the gun, the bomb, and the electric wire.
> I have highly suspicion that the coup staged by Soeharto backed by Western countries
No need for suspicions, it's well documented that Washington was pulling the strings. In fact, there's a recent book on the matter that's just come out, it's called The Jakarta Method.
Really having my eyes opened by The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins right now if anybody is looking for recommendations.
The essence of communism isn’t evil. Trying to force any ideology on a population is what’s evil. If society gradually arrives at something we can describe as communist, meaning mutually classless and without a state, that would be fine.
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World > The hidden story of the wanton slaughter —in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world ——acked by the United States.
>In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA’s’secret interventions were so successful.
>In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s’been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.
We literally have committed more genocide and industrialized murder in the 20th century than anyone else in the world previously.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
have you heard of the cold war? backing horrible rightwing groups was US foreign policy for decades.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
Oh no... Turns out White and Jews can be terrorists too :( this might be the biggest reveal the brainwashed west has to go through.
Again, America is worse on every front, all it takes really is *an* attempt at an unbiased appraisal of world history and you'll see as much.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
I did a post on this a few hours ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/p3gsrh/kandahar_afghanistans_secondlargest_city_falls_to/h8rdjcl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
The US has been supporting radical islamists and egging them on against communists for nearly a half century, all over the world. Like the Indonesian mass murders, or even in WW2, when they recruited and funded ex-Soviet Nazi Muslims who defected to germany for their contacts and network in Russia. They set them up to radicalize Muslims in the west and across the world out of a mosque in Munich. That network operated safehouses that gave shelter and funds to the 9/11 hijackers when they were in europe.
I assume you know all the death and suffering is responsible for in Indonesia ? I suggest you read this misterrrrr
The Shining Path of Peru is pretty terrifying too. Heres a video on it. The Peruvian communist party goes off the rails.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
This is a great book on Chilean history too, came out this year and is a number one best seller in Chilean History.
I don't think anyone is defining success as "high profile arrests/convictions".
Perhaps if this is topic you would like to understand more thoroughly, you would be interested in old fashioned pre-social media non-mass surveillance such as COINTELPRO and (more recently and narrowly, the Green Scare) in the US.
Globally, a book that was released earlier this year The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (also an audiobook) discusses surveillance in context of larger control strategies. The author (Vincent Bevins) has done many many interviews on podcasts and such to promo it so if you absorb info that way search on youtube or podcast client for his name you will find lots of stuff.
Mass surveillance is easier than targeted surveillance. Among many advantages, it has the added benefit that once you realize an individual is of interest, you can retroactively spy on them, because you already have their whole history. This will only build up over time. Soon there will be adults whose entire life histories is available in minute detail.
it seems as though it has been much more difficult to challenge authority when they are spying on millions of people than when there is a specific individual facing, such as in the past, a wiretap.
Anyway, the problem with your question, is your criteria.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
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60 Million Americans identify as Libertarian. You are the next generation of Glenn beck and the Tea Party Patriots. I laugh so hard at you Kiddiefoxnews types.
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