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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 05., Pannaschg. 6	Standorte: GP.WF FS.E Bevi / Nonfiction	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 27.04.2026	Vorbestellungen: 0

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military orchestrate the mass killing of approximately one million unarmed civilians—effectively eliminating the largest Communist Party outside China and the Soviet Union. While conflicts in Vietnam and Korea are etched into global memory, this clandestine intervention remained largely hidden, precisely because it was so successful. Vincent Bevins reveals a visceral and shocking legacy where "Jakarta" became a code word for the systematic extermination of left-wing activists, inspiring copycat terror programs in countries as distant as Brazil and Chile.

 

Drawing from recently declassified documents and eyewitness testimony across twelve countries, The Jakarta Method offers a radical new history of Washington's anticommunist crusade. It serves as a profound diagnostic tool for understanding how the modern capitalist world system was shaped not by peaceful transition, but by a global program of mass murder. This immersive intellectual experience challenges the traditional Cold War narrative, proving that the brutal suppression of unarmed leftists was a fundamental pillar of the U.S. triumph. It is an essential, haunting exploration of the "secret" history that continues to define our geopolitical landscape today.

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

A new American age

Independent Indonesia

Feet to the fire, pope in the sky

An alliance for progress

To Brazil and back

The September 30th Movement

Extermination

Around the world

Jakarta is coming

Back up north

We are the champions

Where are they now? And where are we?