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Today, we explore the Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists who, with US support, laid an economic blueprint for Indonesia still in place to this day. In the process, a lotttt of people died—and yes, contrary to what US officials said, it was all bad.
Today's story comes from "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "The Jarkarta Method" by Vincent Bevins
Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-us-most-violent-cookbook-inspired
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