The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Author: Vincent Bevins Narrator: Tim Paige Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world 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.