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by Randy Shields
Review of Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method: Washington s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
A crosspost with Dissident Voice, a fraternal site
Prepare to read Vincent Bevins’s
The Jakarta Method in one sitting because it’s impossible to put down. The book is a summation of the US government assisting the Indonesian military in killing approximately one million civilians from October 1965 through March 1966.
While the Vietnam War got most of the headlines, in Indonesia, the world’s third largest communist party was winning hearts, minds and elections much to the alarm of the United States. After years of cultivating and training the Indonesian military the US decided it was time for the Indonesian working class to put away childish things like land reform and resource nationalization. The two-million strong (but fatefully unarmed) Indonesian communist party, the PKI, had
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Prepare to read Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method in one sitting because it’s impossible to put down. The book is a summation of the US government assisting the Indonesian military in killing approximately one million civilians from October 1965 through March 1966. While the Vietnam War got most of the headlines, in Indonesia the world’s […]
Springfield Township woman pleads guilty to stealing money from people with disabilities Carla Clark pleaded guilty and was sentenced on May 6, court documents say (Source: Cincinnati Police Department) By Natalya Daoud | May 10, 2021 at 2:24 PM EDT - Updated May 10 at 2:43 PM
NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio (FOX19) - A Springfield Township woman pleaded guilty to stealing money from developmentally disabled residents at the group home where she worked.
The initial accusation surfaced when a routine Ohio Valley Residential Services audit of bank statements revealed around $2,000 withdrawn from residents’ bank accounts that was not actually given to the residents.
Clark admitted to stealing the money and was immediately fired, OVRS Executive Director James Steele said.