Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
audio cd, 1 pages
Published May 19, 2020 by Public Affairs, Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing.
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.
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.
The thing is it’s a brilliant book about such a depressing topic, the hope of anti colonial communist movements and their destruction by the US, specifically the CIA. Honestly if you want to feel like ‘fuck America’ read this book
