Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
audio cd, 1 Seiten
Am 19. Mai 2020 von Public Affairs, Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing veröffentlicht.
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.
Es ist so eklig was die USA gemacht hat; wozu Menschen fähig sind. Es war schwierig, das alles anzuhören. Kolonialismus ist lange nicht vorbei. Die gleichen Machtstrukturen bestehen.
I think most will find this book eye opening. During the Cold War, the U.S. government helped reactionaries in Indonesia slaughter a million communists. They then repeated that approach (the Jakartra Method) in Brazil. This book gets into the weeds, but it does a nice job of balancing personal accounts of victims with the bigger picture history.
Blood boiling book about right-wing violence post WW2 and how the US was directly or indirectly involved in all of it.
The book itself mentions that it should be paired with the documentary "The Act of Killing", which I also recommend to watch before or after reading this book.
A must-read, although it is an emotional struggle to get through it.
