The Jakarta Method

This is far and above the most important book I've ever read. Everyone in the USA should know the atrocities their government actively funded and encouraged over the last 75 years around the globe. We have never reconciled with these atrocities, and this failure is partially why our politics is so backward compared to the other wealthy countries.

There's a reason why so many rabid lunatics scream about “socialism” without having any idea what that word means. There's a reason why so many poor countries' citizens migrate to our country. There's a reason why the global south is poor. It's all neatly connected.

The US Government is responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-induced atrocities of the last 75 years in order to prevent the creation of a more equitable, egalitarian world. Now we live in a world with the US being the singular global superpower, draining the wealth of the weaker nations to satiate the unquenchable thirsts of the rich and powerful.

I encourage every single person who is reading this sentence to read this book.