{"id":7602,"date":"2021-11-30T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2021-12-17T00:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T23:14:48","slug":"us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jakarta Method &#8211; How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Jakarta Method &#8211; How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode of The Source, we interview Vincent Bevins, an American journalist and author of the book: \u2018The Jakarta Method: Washington&#8217;s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World\u2019 (2020).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link to the book (2020): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vincentbevins.com\/book\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/vincentbevins.com\/book\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">VIDEO: The Jakarta Method &#8211; How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U7tFvOA_EWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To watch more of our videos with Peter Kuznick or other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">ABOUT VINCENT BEVINS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vincent Bevins<\/strong> is an award-winning journalist, originally from California. He is the author of \u2018The Jakarta Method\u2019, a new history of cold war violence that was named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Financial Times, GQ, and CounterPunch. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, after serving as Brazil Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and previously worked for the Financial Times in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, we talk with American journalist Vincent Bevins about how the U.S. brutally exterminated leftist movements during the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War - acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/979-Design.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"atv_admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@acTVismMunich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@acTVismMunich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"atv_admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"atv_admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc2c8684912eb2289fe0009f5ca451d6\"},\"headline\":\"The Jakarta Method &#8211; How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":474,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"LATEST\",\"OUR CONTENT\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/\",\"name\":\"How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"In this video, we talk with American journalist Vincent Bevins about how the US brutally exterminated leftist movements during the Cold War.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"acTVism\",\"description\":\"information that moves\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"acTVism Munich e.V.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/logo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/logo.svg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":57,\"caption\":\"acTVism Munich e.V.\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/facebook.com\\\/acTVism\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/acTVismMunich\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc2c8684912eb2289fe0009f5ca451d6\",\"name\":\"atv_admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"atv_admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/en\\\/author\\\/atv_admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War - acTVism","og_url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/","og_site_name":"acTVism","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/acTVism","article_published_time":"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/979-Design.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"atv_admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@acTVismMunich","twitter_site":"@acTVismMunich","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"atv_admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/"},"author":{"name":"atv_admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#\/schema\/person\/bc2c8684912eb2289fe0009f5ca451d6"},"headline":"The Jakarta Method &#8211; How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War","datePublished":"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/"},"wordCount":474,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg","articleSection":["LATEST","OUR CONTENT"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/","url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/","name":"How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-30T15:40:30+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-16T23:14:48+00:00","description":"In this video, we talk with American journalist Vincent Bevins about how the US brutally exterminated leftist movements during the Cold War.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/us-brutally-exterminated-leftist-movements-cold-war\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/","name":"acTVism","description":"information that moves","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#organization","name":"acTVism Munich e.V.","url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo.svg","width":200,"height":57,"caption":"acTVism Munich e.V."},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/facebook.com\/acTVism","https:\/\/x.com\/acTVismMunich"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/#\/schema\/person\/bc2c8684912eb2289fe0009f5ca451d6","name":"atv_admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53465926e4246ee1b807a849c23197531fd45c1bcd02682ada54ddb12eaa7a6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"atv_admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/author\/atv_admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"channel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/channel?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}