Ep. 886: Vincent Bevins Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Vincent Bevins, an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, reporting from across the entire region and paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 massacre in Indonesia. He previously served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and for the Financial Times in London.

The topic is history.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Speaking Truth to Power
American History
Imperialism and Colonialism
Jakarta Method
Mass Murder
Indonesian Tragedy
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
General MacArthur's Warning to JFK to Avoid a Land War in Asia

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	Let me give you a little factoid that you, because I wasn't, maybe you were, but I don't think so.
0:42.3	You were not aware that in 1965, the United States government helped to kill one million people inside Indonesia.
0:54.6	I mean, yes, they were in Vietnam at the time.
0:56.8	Yes, they were in Cambodia.
0:57.8	They were in Lao.
0:59.5	But our government, the CIA, through the cloak of darkness, assisted, led, however you want to call it,
1:09.0	to the killing of one million people inside Indonesia.
1:15.6	Now, look, the CIA has surely done some good things, but post-World War II, it did a lot of bad things.
1:26.2	I guess today, Vincent Bevins.
1:28.5	He digs deep.
1:30.1	His book, The Jakarta Method, Washington's anti-communist crusade, and the mass murder program that shaped our world.
1:39.8	This might be one of those conversations where you say to yourself, I don't want to know.
1:44.2	I don't care. It. I don't care.
1:46.4	It's not interesting to me.
1:49.0	And you know what I would say?
1:50.8	Fuck you.
1:52.1	It should be interesting to you.
1:54.7	If you're a human being, if you're alive, if you have a pulse, you want to know how things work, how things have worked for good and bad.
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