Capitalism Reduced Indonesian Cities to Infested Carcases
From Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Samarinda and Pontianak, text and photos: Andre Vltchek Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman who now resides in Canada, insisted on meeting me in...
Borneo – Island devastated, people oblivious
from Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan): Andre Vltchek and Mira Lubis She was just standing there, in the middle of burning land, surrounded by stumps of trees, fire everywhere, smoke rising...
52 years after fascist genocide, Indonesians scared of “communist ghosts”
From Jakarta and Yogyakarta: Andre Vltchek It was once again a hot, muggy day in Jakarta. The air was full of pollutants, epic traffic jams blocking entire center of...
The Rising of Britain’s ‘New Politics’
Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. The world’s third biggest...
The ultimate South China Sea “secret”
by Pepe Escobar, Sputnik The South China Sea is and will continue to be the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the young 21st century – way ahead of the Middle...
The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold
The truth about Indonesian history and the United States involvement in its ongoing tragedy is little known in the West.
America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force
by Noam Chomsky, via Common Dreams (2014) The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide...
The rape of East Timor: "Sounds like fun"
Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also...
Horrid Carcass of Indonesia – 50 Years After the Coup
by Andre Vltchek Last year, I stopped travelling to Indonesia. I simply did… I just could not bear being there, anymore. It was making me unwell. I felt psychologically...
