I’m sitting at the splendid building of the Singapore National Library, in a semi-dark room, microfilm inserted into a high-tech machine. I’m watching and then filming and photographing several old Malaysian newspapers dating back from October 1965.
These reports were published right after the horrible 1965 military coup in Indonesia, which basically overthrew the progressive President Sukarno and liquidated then the third largest Communist party on Earth, PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia). Between one and three million Indonesian people died in some of the most horrifying massacres of the 20th century. From a socialist (and soon to be Communist) country, Indonesia descended into the present pits of turbo-capitalist, as well as religious and extreme right-wing Fascism.
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[Ben’s comment: Communism was never a threat to the West. In fact, the West created it. Communism was born in London and used by western propagandists to create the enemy they needed to enable them to develop their Military Industrial Complex (the new Roman Empire) which now rules the world. In my lifetime I’ve seen Britain and America set up countries/regimes to serve as “enemies of freedom.” The West then orchestrated political coups to install governments designed to undermine and ruin those countries. At the same time, the western-installed regimes were decried as the cause of the suffering of the people – thus precipitating the desired need for the West to attack and destroy those nations so Western bankers could rebuild them with Western corporate control.
As a child I saw Germany and Japan built up by London and New York to be used this way. Germany and Japan were destroyed and then reinvented according to the designs of the bankers in New York and London. Then the same routine was orchestrated in Korea and Iran; then Vietnam; then it was repeated in a number of small defenseless countries.
This strategy of takeover by western banker-ruled military powers continues today. They did it to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – all ruined by the West – and now we see it occurring in Syria (however, due to Russia’s intervention they’re having some trouble getting it done in Syria). The West’s plan is that once Syria is ruined they’ll go after Iran. The western-created imaginary enemies today are no longer called “Communist,” but the enemies today are called Islam and all things Russian (which is no longer Communist). But as Vltchek points out, these terms are being used only to create fear and to facilitate the perception of a continual need to build up the West’s military powers. Thus we see turmoil and terrorism by western-sponsored criminal gangs calling themselves Muslims (but they are not real Muslims. They are simply hired criminals, much like the politicians in Washington DC who call themselves “Christians” but are not Christians. They are only paid criminals). This is causing hordes of poor immigrants to be driven out of their native lands and then blamed for everything.
The old Roman Empire is still alive in the West.]
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The United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Holland and several other Western nations, directly sponsored the coup in Indonesia, while directing both the pro-Western treasonous factions in the military, as well as the (fake) religious leaders who stood, from the start, at the forefront of the genocide.
All this information is, of course, widely available in the de-classified archives of both the CIA and U.S. State Department. It can be accessed, analyzed and reproduced. I personally made a film about the events, and so have several other directors.
But it isn’t part of the memory of humanity. In Southeast Asia, only a handful of researchers are interested.
In Malaysia, Singapore or Thailand, the Indonesian post-1965 Fascism is a taboo topic. It is simply not discussed. “Progressive” intellectuals here are, like in all other ‘client’ states of the West, paid to be preoccupied with their sex orientation, with gender issues, and personal ‘freedoms’, but definitely not with the essential matters (Western imperialism, neo-colonialism, the savage and grotesque forms of capitalism, the plunder of local natural resources, as well as disinformation, plus the forcefully injected ignorance that is accompanied by mass amnesia) that have been shaping so extremely and so negatively this part of the world.
The West is laughing behind the back of its brainwashed victims. It is laughing all the way to the bank.
Lies are obviously paying off.
No other part of the world has suffered from Western Imperialism as much after WWII, as Southeast Asia did, perhaps with two exceptions, those of Africa and the Middle East.
In so-called Indochina, the West murdered close to ten million people, during the indiscriminate bombing campaigns and other forms of terror – in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. And the above-mentioned Indonesian coup killed at least 1 million human lives. 30% of the population of East Timor was exterminated by the Indonesian occupation, which was fully supported by the West. The Thai regime, fully subservient to the West, killed indiscriminately in the north and in the capital. The entire region has been suffering from extreme religious implants (fake Muslims), sponsored by the West itself, and by its allies from the Gulf (like Saudi Arabia).
But the West is admired here, with an almost religious zeal.
The U.S., British and French press agencies and ‘cultural centers’ are spreading disinformation through local media outlets owned by Western ‘elites’. Local ‘education’ has been devotedly shaped by Western didactic concepts. In places like Malaysia, Indonesia, but also Thailand, the greatest achievement is to graduate from university in one of the countries that used to colonize this part of the world.
Victim countries, instead of hating their destroyers, are actually admiring and plagiarizing the West, while pursuing, even begging for funding from their past and present tormentors.
Southeast Asia, now obedient, submissive, phlegmatic and stripped of the former revolutionary ideologies, is where the Western indoctrination and propaganda scored unquestionable victory.
The same day, I turned on the television set in my hotel room, and watched the Western coverage of the situation in Idlib, the last stronghold of the Western-sponsored terrorists on Syrian territory.
Russia has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting warning that the US-directed terrorists might stage a chemical attack, and then blame it on the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
NATO battleships have been deployed to the region. There can be no doubt – it has been a ‘good old’ European/North American scenario at work, once again: ‘We hit you, kill your people, blame you, and then bomb you as a punishment’.
Imperialist gangsters then point accusative fingers at the victims (in this case Syria) and at those who are trying to protect them (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, China). Just like in a kindergarten, or a primary school; remember? A boy hits someone from behind and then screams, pointing at someone else: “It was him, it was him!” Miraculously, until now, the West has always gotten away with this ‘strategy’, of course, at the cost of billions of victims, on all continents.
That is how it used to be for centuries, and that is how it still works. That is how it will continue to be, until such terror and gangsterism is stopped.
For years and decades, we were told that the world is now increasingly inter-connected, that nothing of great importance could happen, without it being immediately spotted and reported by vigilant media lenses, and ‘civil society’.
Yet, thousands of things are happening and no one is noticing.
Just in the last two decades, entire countries have been singled-out by North America and Europe, then half-starved to death through embargos and sanctions, before being finally attacked and broken to pieces: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya to mention just a few. Governments of several left-wing nations have been overthrown either from outside, or through their own, local, servile media; among them Brazil, Honduras and Paraguay. Countless Western companies and their local cohorts are committing the unbridled plunder of natural resources in such places as Borneo/Kalimantan or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), totally ruining tropical forests while murdering hundreds of species.
How much do people know about each other, or about what is done to their brothers and sisters on different continents?
I have worked in some 160 countries, and I can testify without the slightest hesitation: ‘Almost nothing’. In fact, less than nothing.
The Western Empire and its lies, has managed to fragment the world to previously unknown extremes. It is all done ‘in the open’, in full view of the world, which is somehow unable to see and identify the most urgent threats to its survival. Mass media propaganda outlets are serving as vehicles of indoctrination, so do cultural and ‘educational’ institutions of the West or those local ones shaped by the Western concepts. That includes such diverse ‘tools’ as universities, Internet traffic manipulators, censors and self-censored individuals, social media, advertisement agencies, and pop culture ‘artists’.
There is a clear pattern to Western colonialist and neo-colonialist barbarity and lies:
Any regime or culture that doesn’t give free reign to western bankers must be stopped, their government overthrown, and citizens massacred, the entire country privatized; sold to foreign interests. The overwhelming majority of Indonesians are so brainwashed by the local and Western propaganda that they still blame the Communists for the 1965 coup, no matter what the CIA archives say.
Mosadech of Iran (1953) was a typical example. He ended up the same way as Sukarno. And the whole world was then charmed by the butcher Shah and his lavish wife, who was put to power by the West.
Chile in 1973, and thereafter, the same deadly pattern occurred, more evidence of how freedom-loving and democratic the West is.
Patrice Lumumba of Congo nationalized natural resources and tried to feed and educate his great nation. Result? Overthrown, killed. The price: some 8 million people massacred in the last two decades, or maybe many more than that (see my film: Rwanda Gambit). Nobody knows, or everyone pretends that they don’t know.
Syria! The biggest ‘crime’ of this country, at least in the eyes of the West, consisted of trying to provide its citizens with high quality of life, while not being ruled by the West and the Gulf states. The results we all know (or do we, really?): hundreds of thousands killed by West-sponsored murderous extremists (al-Qaeda, ISIS, etc) millions exiled and millions internally displaced. And the West, naturally, is blaming the Syrian President, and is ready to ‘punish him.’
Irrational? But can global-scale fascism ever be rational?
The lies that are being spread by the West are piling up. They overlap, often contradict one another. But the world public is not trained to search for the truth, anymore. Subconsciously it senses that it is being lied to, but the truth is so horrifying, that the great majority of people prefer to simply take selfies, analyze and parade its sexual orientation, stick earphones into its ears and listen to empty pop music, instead of fighting for the survival of humanity. I wrote entire books on this topic, including the near 1,000-page : “Exposing Lies Of The Empire.”
This is just a series of thoughts that came to my mind, while I was sitting at a projector in a dark room of the Singapore National Library.
A rhetorical question kept materializing: “Can all this be happening?” “Can the West get away with all these crimes it has been committing for centuries, all over the world?”
The answer was clear: ‘But of course, as long as it is not stopped!”
And so, the struggle continues.
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