Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has fought communism around the globe. 

From Brazil to Indonesia, that has resulted in hundreds of thousands being killed. Journalist and author Vincent Bevins brings new insight to the story in his book: The Jakarta Method.

Its subtitle is – Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that shaped Our World. The book takes us inside decades of CIA and U.S. government intervention. Host Anand Naidoo talked with the author who joined him Via Skype from Sao Paulo.

To discuss:

• Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method
• Harlan Ullman is chairman of the Killowen Group and senior adviser with the Atlantic Council.
• Max Blumenthal is an author and journalist.

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This is essential and devastating: How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing https://t.co/mNap6IxDCM via @nybooks

— Joshua Oppenheimer (@JoshuaOppenheim) May 19, 2020

A trove of recently released documents confirms that Washington’s role in Indonesia's 1965 massacre was part of a bigger Cold War strategy, writes Vincent Bevins https://t.co/nH3YKQeOOA pic.twitter.com/zrKVyrsG3I

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 20, 2018

Journalist Vincent Bevins’s first book, The Jakarta Method, is an insightful and original history of the violence inflicted by the US and its allies during the Cold War. Bevins argues that our world today is one built by anti-communist violence. https://t.co/ZE4h49Mqoa

— Jacobin (@jacobin) May 19, 2020