In 1964, when Kennedy had planned to make a friendship visit to Indonesia, under Johnson, “the level of hostility and mutual recrimination between the United States and Indonesia rose.”[905] In the year following, as economic aid for Sukarno’s projects ceased, the Pentagon funneled new military aid for CIA-connected operations in the Indonesian Army under the control of Sukarno’s “least loyal components.”[906] As the CIA and the Pentagon built up Sukarno’s opponents in the army, corporate leaders sensed a new day for business in Indonesia. In April 1965, the U.S.-based corporation, Freeport Sulphur, anticipated Sukarno’s overthrow by half a year, reaching “a preliminary arrangement with Indonesian officials for what would become a $500 million investment in West Papua copper.”[907] In October 1965, the enemy that Sukarno had learned to fear most, the CIA, finally succeeded in toppling his government…. -- JFK and the Unspeakable. Effect: CIA genocide of 1.25 million. But this is off limits for the US Capitalist Foundation Funded Left-with-Limits, because it was caused by the Coup of 1963. In Foundation Land, there were no policy implications so it doesnt matter. Yeah right. There were many, many policy implications. In fact, I would argue the that many of the biggest policy shifts between presidents in US history happened between 1963-65, which only shows how little elected officials matter because they will be shot in the head at high noon and capitalisms jury lenses will do the bidding of their Time-Life owners, should they dare inhibit the desired imperialist policies of the US ruling class. But if these policy changes are connected to the coup, there goes the credibility of the media, there goes control over the left, the very audience that should be the most focussed on CIA history and its deep structural connections to US finance capitalism.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:34:40 +0000
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