Veljko Vukojičić’s Reviews > The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World > Status Update

“As part of a range of psychological operations alongside the war on the guerrillas, CIA agents spread the rumor that an aswang, a bloodsucking ghoul of Filipino legend, was on the loose and destroying men with evil in their hearts. They then took a Huk rebel they had killed, poked two holes in his neck, drained him of his blood, and left him lying in the road."

“What happened in Brazil in 1964 and Indonesia in 1965 may have been the most important victories of the Cold War for the side that ultimately won-that is, the United States and the global economic system now in operation …

… the two events led to the creation of a monstrous international network of extermination-that is, the systematic mass murder of civilians-across many more countries.”

Shocking and important.