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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- Narrated by: Tim Paige
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
Named One of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, The Financial Times, and GQ
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter - in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world - backed by the United States.
In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th 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 12 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 US-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.
What the critics say
"This fascinating book is a meticulous and shocking analysis of a little-known and horrifically bloody battle of the Cold War, but it is also something more. It places the Indonesia massacre of 1965 in its global context, showing how the United States both supported it and used it as a model for repression in other countries." (Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow, All the Shah's Men, Poisoner in Chief)
"In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins argues persuasively that during the Cold War, the U.S. approved of mass murder campaigns to roll back communism in the Third World. This is a provocative, necessary book, an essential guide to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our imperfect world. Highly recommended." (Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer, author of Che Guevara and Inside the League)
"The Jakarta Method is a gripping, thoroughly original exploration into the global covert Cold War, the passions it provoked, and the corpses it left in its wake. A full tally of the body count of the transnational counterinsurgency Washington has been waging since the early 1960s is impossible. But Bevins' excellent book offers a different kind of reckoning, of moral costs and ongoing political consequences. 'Jakarta is coming' was spray-painted on the walls of Santiago Chile in 1972, just before that country's CIA-backed coup, a way for that nation's rich to let the poor know the fate that would befall them were they to continue to fight for a more just society. 'Jakarta' did come, leaving hundreds of thousands of dead throughout Latin America. And, in a way, it never left." (Greg Grandin, Yale University, author of Fordlandia and The End of the Myth)
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-10-01
Probably the Most Important Book this Year
Bevins does a great job telling the story of American intervention that most people dont know.
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- HUMAN
- 2020-06-20
Very interesting and compelling listen
It reveals the extent of US involvement in the 3rd world. It seems interesting to me as author talks about dream's and aspirations of the developing world and its people after years of colonial exploitation. It was hard to put down after starting and I managed to finish it in 2 days while working full-time.
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- Prof. Neil Larsen
- 2020-08-03
Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
As with so many Audible recordings, an otherwise able narrator but with evidently zero knowledge of languages other than English, garbles the non-English names and words in this book so badly that listening to it becomes almost painful. Is it really so hard to find professionally-trained readers who either know the non-English languages made use of in the books they are hired to record or who at least bother to take the time to learn how to pronounce the relatively few words and names they know they are going to be required to read into a microphone? As a native English-speaker who speaks and has taught both Spanish and Portuguese, I can't help but cringe every time I hear Mr. Paige mangle these languages beyond recognition. Example: the Portuguese word "aliança," pronounced 'ah-lee-AWNS-ah' but rendered as 'ah-lee-ONK-ah' by the hapless, clueless and evidently lazy Mr. Paige. I don't speak the Indonesian languages, words and names from which also crop up frequently in 'The Jakarta Method,' so I have no way of knowing for sure whether Mr. Paige garbles those as well, but what are the chances? The point is, however, that if I were the one being hired to make a recording of this important book, I'd take the time to learn how to pronounce the non-English names and words in them from a native speaker. How hard can that be? This wouldn't be so bad if it were an isolated problem with the audiobooks Audible sells, but it's all too common. The biggest irony in this case is that Vincent Bevins' 'The Jakarta Method' concerns the history of the disastrous and typically murderous CIA-led covert operations during the Cold War in countries like Indonesia and Brazil, often implemented by U.S. government officials with next to zero knowledge of the countries in whose affairs they were interfering, generally without regard for human life. And yet here is the narrator of the book replicating this same kind of ignorance. This when all it would have taken is the investment of just a little time and effort to learn how to pronounce a word or two in a non-English language. The message that Audible is sending to its customers by marketing shoddy, second-rate products such as these is that such things do not matter.
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- Matthew Southern
- 2020-11-13
Thesis is never proven
Though it illustrates people’s individual struggles well, the thesis is barely touched upon except for brief passing references to an “Operation Jakarta” or “Jakarta is coming”. Little time is dedicate to the School of the Americas or Fort Leavenworth.
Upon first glance, one believes they are reading about an overarching conspiracy orchestrated by the USA but in reality you are reading a variety of stories that appear to be tied only by conjecture.
As such, I feel this did a disservice to the history that happened - a worldwide covert campaign to keep communism at bay by using violence, psychological operations and coercion.
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- R. Moore
- 2020-05-31
Essential work for understanding the 20th century
I have met people who spoke of Allende and other collateral damage of cia operations. I thought these Americans just had a perspective off the main stream. Bevin's ties the anticommunist campaign of terror together into a cogent thorough narrative backed up with first person accounts and deep secondary sources. The West's complicity and role as a driving force in systematic worldwide terror is irrefutable. So much went on which we knew nothing about.
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- Kei
- 2020-05-28
Outstanding book
Loved the book. The story keeps you wanting more and makes you wonder how much of the world history have been manipulated to hide the truth. If not for books like this, one may never even wonder if what we know is actually what really happened. Great job by the author. I was impressed by they way he respect the original names in every language of all the countries he visited for the book.
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- Jacob
- 2020-06-12
New look at the Global South
There is a good balance of firsthand accounts, declassified information, and broader history; which come together to form a cohesive narrative. With good pacing that won't bog down or confuse you. I find that books with this level of depth don't normally come across as accessible.
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- Buretto
- 2020-08-03
Imperial America goes off the rails
Once you get the past the rather simplistic history of the world up to the Second World War in the first chapter, the book becomes a comprehensive account of American machinations around the world, ostensibly in the cause of winning the cold war. (I had feared the entire book would continue with the same lack of depth of the first chapter, but fortunately it did not). Stories of the USA government's entanglement in backing (very often incompetently) right-wing politic movements in Indonesia, mainland Asia, the Middle East, and Central and South America, are numerous and well-documented. This book does quite a good job in tying them all together, recounting the willfully misinformed programs suppressing post-colonial freedom movements, in favor of fighting the post-war bogeyman of communism, even when it's greatest advocate, the Soviet Union, was not actively involved. A good book for understanding how imperial America, born in 1898, went so wrong in the latter 20th century.
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- Paul
- 2020-07-22
A book everybody should read
This is a history that is not taught, in fact is constantly denied. Of course, the documents proving it have been classified, and most of the witnesses killed, whereas propaganda to the contrary has been spread by all media and basic education. But now that it is known, it should be known by everybody. Chances are it changes the way you see the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-05-20
crucial history
This is important history. A great explanation of how we got to now. highly recommended
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- Chris Carl
- 2021-02-23
Chilling
I been to Indonesia many times and I been curious about this incident since watching the movie “The Year of Living Dangerously”
Its way more horrifying than I thought it would be.
This story must be read!
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- jerry soerjoko
- 2021-02-23
Amazing stories
Great perspective for Indonesians to know more about how the US and CIA changed their country.
Only downside is the pronunciation of Indonesian names is terrible!