"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins

#Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth 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."

#Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”

Recension: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/enduring-cold-war-imperialism-on-vincent-bevinss-the-jakarta-method/

Interview: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/

@histodons @bookstodon

https://archive.org/details/kpu-wananchi-declaration

Wananchi Declaration: The Programme of the Kenya People's Union by Kenya People's Union

Topics
#Kenya, #politicalplatforms, #politicalparties, #socialism, #antiimperialism, #Uhuru, #Africansocialism, #socialisminAfrica, #anticommunism, #KPU, #KenyaPeoplesUnion, #OgingaOdinga

An overview of the context around the Kenya People's Union, along with an analysis of the programme, can be found in Wunyabari O. Maloba's The Anatomy of Neo-Colonialism in Kenya: British Imperialism and Kenyatta, 1963–1978, chapter 3: “African Socialism and the Rise and Rise of Conservative Nationalism”.

https://archive.org/details/papadok

Papa Dòk Ak Tonton Makout Li Yo: Laverite sou Ayiti by J. Bènye Pyè (J. Bernier Pierre); Bernard Diederich; Al Burt; Graam Grim (Graham Greene)

Topics #PapaDòk, #PapaDok, #PapaDoc, #FrançoisDuvalier, #Haiti, #Ayiti, #politik, #antiblackness, #anticommunism, #HaitianCreole, #KreyòlAyisyen, #kreyòl, #TontonMacoutes, #TontonMakout, #Makout, #istwa, #Duvalier, #Haitianhistory, #historyofHaiti, #istwaAyiti, #Karayib, #istwaKarayib, #Dominikani, #Repiblikdominikèn, #etazini

ISBN 10: 1539917142
ISBN 13: 9781539917144
Edisyon: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincia0en

Who's Who in CIA: A biographical reference work on 3,000 officers of the civil and military branches of the secret services of the USA in 120 countries by Julius Mader; Mohamed Abdelnabi; Ambalal Bhatt; Fernando Gamarra; Shozo Ohashi

Topics
#CIA, #CentralIntelligenceAgency, #DIA, #DefenseIntelligenceAgency, #USIA, #UnitedStatesInformationAgency, #DepartmentofState, #StateDepartment, #FBI, #FederalBureauofInvestigation, #NSA, #NationalSecurityAgency, #SecretService, #OSS, #OfficeofStrategicServices, #USForeignService, #UnitedStatesForeignService, #AgencyforInternationalDevelopment, #USAID, #PeaceCorps, #MilitaryIntelligenceService, #G2, #A2, #AirStaff2, #AdmiralStaff2, #AIS, #AirIntelligenceService, #CIC, #CounterIntelligenceCorps, #GeneralStaff2, #MIS, #NationalSecurityCouncil, #NSC, #OfficeofNavalIntelligence, #ONI, #intelligenceagencies, #counterintelligence, #covertaction, #CIAagents, #CIAofficers, #spies, #anticommunism, #covertoperations, #imperialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #ColdWar, #neocolonialism

https://archive.org/details/terrorismindustry

The “Terrorism” Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman; Gerry O'Sullivan

Topics
#terrorism, #anticommunism, #fascism, #conservatism, #rightwing, #media, #massmedia, #antiblackness, #thinktanks, #NGOs, #nonprofits, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #terrorists, #propaganda, #unitedstatesofamerika, #whitesupremacy, #politicalviolence, #militaryindustrialcomplex

What is a terrorist act? The authors argue that experts on the subject hold imperialist views biased in favor of the status quo or government perspectives. The biases are largely a product of the “terrorism industry” that has grown up in response to government funding, which includes networks of government agencies, think tanks, and private security firms. The mass media also have a big role in promoting terrorist stereotypes, often missing a balanced perspective on a “terrorist” act. The authors also discuss the historical uses of stereotyping threatening groups.

https://archive.org/details/stateagainstnation

Haiti, State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Topics
#Haiti, #Haïti, #Ayiti, #Duvalier, #Duvaliers, #Duvalierism, #Duvalierisme, #PapaDoc, #BabyDoc, #FrançoisDuvalier, #JeanClaudeDuvalier, #imperialism, #noirism, #noirisme, #antiblackness, #history, #Haitianhistory, #historyofHaiti, #colorism, #antiblackness, #capitalism, #Caribbean, #anticommunism, #nationalism, #stateterror

"In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti’s hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, that faces this small Caribbean nation did not begin with the dictatorship, and is far from being solved, despite its departure from the scene. In this fascinating study, Haitian-born Michel-Rolph Trouillot examines the mechanisms through which the Duvaliers ruthlessly won and then held onto power for twenty-nine years."

https://archive.org/details/essierobeson

Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby

Topics
#EslandaCardozoGoodeRobeson, #EssieRobeson, #EslandaRobeson, #biography, #Africa, #unitedstatesofamerika, #anticolonialism, #anthropologists, #journalists, #anticommunism, #HarlemRenaissance, #SouthAfrica, #Uganda, #Congo, #internationalism

“Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century.

https://archive.org/details/pslinternal_aoc

Context: PSL orientation towards Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tuesday July 17 2018 by Party for Socialism and Liberation

Topics
#PartyforSocialismandLiberation, #PSL, #AOC, #AlexandriaOcasioCortez, #DSA, #DemocraticSocialistsofAmerica, #classcollaboration, #anticommunism, #suppression, #socialmedia, #socialimperialism, #socialfascism

leaked internal memo from the “party for socialism & liberation” illustrating the fact that they support neither socialism nor liberation.

https://archive.org/details/stalkingthesociological

Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology by Mike Forrest Keen

Topics
#sociology, #anticommunism, #fbi, #academia, #counterinsurgency, #unitedstatesofamerika, #imperialism

https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5

Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives

Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency

“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)