CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method w/ Vincent Bevins

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

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Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA genocide in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against communists in 22 countries during the Cold War. WATCH this episode // https://youtu.be/up3-lOiO9L8 BUY The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins here: https://vincentbevins.com/book/ FOLLOW https://twitter.com/Vinncent // https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin // https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles Keep Empire Files independent & ad-free (and get exclusive bonus content) at https://www.Patreon.com/EmpireFiles MERCH // https://empirefiles.store

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Abby Martin. You're listening to the audio version of this episode,
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0:16.1	possible. But what happens is about half of the people, perhaps, that are brought into custody over the next few weeks, are taken out in the middle of the night and never come back.
0:32.8	They're stabbed, strangled, thrown into rivers, and a million people remain in a concentration camp
0:40.3	purely for their political beliefs. You have a concentration camp for left-wing socialists.
0:46.3	You have a concentration camp for former communist or accused communists.
0:49.3	And in this period of 1965 to 1966, approximately one million innocent people are killed in this manner.
1:02.0	Vincent, thank you so much for sitting down with me today. I appreciate it.
1:04.0	Yeah, thanks for having you.
1:05.0	Talk about what the initial policy was of the Jakarta Axiom.
1:08.0	First say what Jakarta is and then what the Jakarta axiom was as a policy
1:12.6	under the Truman administration.
1:14.9	So Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, which is now the world's fourth largest country
1:19.1	by population, the largest Muslim majority country in the world.
1:22.7	And in the first years after World War II, the United States finds itself is by far the
1:27.2	most powerful country in human history, far more powerful than the United States finds itself is by far the most powerful
1:27.7	country in human history, far more powerful than the Soviet Union, which is its key rival
1:32.1	in the emerging Cold War, and in a position to really shape outcomes throughout the globe in a way
1:37.2	that is new for the United States. So at the beginning of the Cold War, the United States
1:41.8	doesn't really know what it's going to do with the Third World, what we now call the Global South. Many parts of the Cold War, the United States doesn't really know what it's going to do with the third
1:45.4	world, what we now call the Global South. Many parts of Asia, parts of Latin America, it was not
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