[lbo-talk] Proving Chomsky Right in Jakarta

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 12 07:39:08 PST 2004



>From yesterday's front page Wall Street Journal article on Indonesia, "Washington's Tilt to Business Stirs a Backlash in Indonesia":

"In Indonesia's case, "protecting the interests of major investors and creditors was at the center of the table in everything we did," says Edmund McWilliams, who was chief political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Jakarta from 1996 to 1999. "Concerns about stability made it to the margins. Concerns about human rights, democracy, corruption never made it onto the table at all."

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