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#VincentBevins

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Estelle Platini<p>"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> 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."</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quote</span></a> 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.”</p><p>Recension: <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/enduring-cold-war-imperialism-on-vincent-bevinss-the-jakarta-method/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/en</span><span class="invisible">during-cold-war-imperialism-on-vincent-bevinss-the-jakarta-method/</span></a></p><p>Interview: <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/th</span><span class="invisible">e-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> 🧶</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/VincentBevins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VincentBevins</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWars</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/anticommunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticommunism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ThirdWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdWorld</span></a></p>
jd in .hu 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺 🚀<p>This Is Why The Left Has Failed | Ash Sarkar Meets Vincent Bevins<br><a href="https://youtu.be/yTRkIY6NQhA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/yTRkIY6NQhA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br>–– 'The 2010s saw a new era of mass protest, from Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, to Occupy Wall Street, EuroMaidan and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. Many of these movements shared a "horizontalist" or leaderless approach and most of them ended in failure. <br>Vincent Bevins experienced some of these movements up close. In his latest book "If We Burn" he tries to explain why the movements of the so-called "New Left" didn't succeed and what lessons we can learn from them.'</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NovaraMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NovaraMedia</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/VincentBevins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VincentBevins</span></a></p>
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