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Iara VPS finished reading Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Iara VPS quoted Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
'You are drunk on too much time'
— Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Page 167)
Iara VPS quoted Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
— Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Page 29)
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Iara VPS finished reading Grimble by Clement Freud
Iara VPS reviewed The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Um grande trabalho jornalístico
5 stars
O livro narra como a violência foi empregada na Ásia e na América Latina (com apoio dos EUA) para exterminar comunistas reais e imaginários. Obviamente é impossível dizer como estaríamos hoje se as coisas tivessem sido diferentes, se os governos de Sukarno, Goulart, Allende e tantos outros não tivessem sido sabotados, se pessoas que sonhavam com um mundo melhor não tivessem sido condenadas e mortas por esse crime. Mas esse livro me fez pensar nos futuros que nos foram negados...
Iara VPS finished reading The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Um grande trabalho jornalístico que narra como a violência foi empregada na Ásia e na América Latina (com apoio dos EUA) para exterminar comunistas reais e imaginários. Quantos futuros nos foram negados?
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
[...] the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported — what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 243)
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
In this book, I spent less time discussing the real atrocities carried out by certain communist regimes in the twentieth century. That's partly because they're so well known already; it's mostly because these crimes truly didn't have much to do with the stories of the men and women whose lives we traced throughout the past one hundred years. But it's also because we do not live in a world directly constructed by Stalin's purges or mass starvation under Pol Pot. Those states are gone. Even Mao's Great Leap Forward was quickly abandoned and rejected by the Chinese Communist Party, though the party is still very much around. We do, however, live in a world built partly by US-backed Cold War violence.
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 240)
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
There are heated debates as to whether China has grown because it embraced capitalism or because it had Communist reforms and still remains under the control of a technocratic single party. But what is clear is that China is absolutely not an anticommunist regime created by US intervention in the Cold War
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 235)
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
The thing about destabilizing a country is you don't need surgical precision. A pretty big hammer works.
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 196)
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that mass murder is occurring, the human instinct is to hold out hope that your son, or your daughter, might be saved. This freezes people, and makes populations much more quiescent — easier to exterminate and easier to control.
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 145)
Iara VPS quoted The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
He recounts that locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died for your freedom. How can you possibly support the status quo?'
— The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Page 74 - 75)