Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti

Author:Michael Parenti [Parenti, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781317259794
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-10-22T13:00:00+00:00

Each year, Indonesia destroys more forests than any other country in the world. Deforestation causes landslides, and as a result thousands of people die annually as their houses slide into ravines.

The train system has not been overhauled since the Dutch colonial administration (circa 1942). Trains are regularly derailed. Passengers trying to save money on fares occasionally fall to their death through the rusty roofs on which they are traveling. No Indonesian city has an acceptable public transportation system. Some, including Bandung (with three million people), are served only by a few dilapidated buses and private minivans.23

Indonesian elites retain fond memories of Suharto. After destroying Sukarno’s government and slaughtering the egalitarian popular movement in 1965–1966, Suharto imposed a corrupt reactionary rule, backed by an Indonesian military that was—and still is—in service to the US empire and its transnational corporate clients. He claimed he was saving the country while sacrificing it on the altar of laissez-faire plunder. “Since 1965,” concludes Vltchek, “we have been told that oppression is democracy, that poverty is development, that censorship is freedom of expression, that a collapsing nation is not collapsing at all, and that everything is forgiven and the nation is grateful to Suharto— the departing king of Java who saved capitalism, the nation, and this entire part of the world.”24

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