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By Hajj Abdallah Luongo
Achmed Sukarno was a populist leader and founder of modern Indonesia. He also founded the non-aligned movement of developing countries to create a ‘third way’ between the then two superpowers. In 1955 he convened the Asia-Africa Conference where the leaders of the developing world (the majority of mankind) met to forge their common interests. Alarms went off as his initiative demonstrated a powerful potential in opposition to the boundless aspirations of the proponents of a “free market economy.”
The 1963 formation of the Malaysian Federation was criticised by Sukarno as a neo-colonial plot to further British commercial interest in the region. A declassified British Foreign Office report from 1964 called for the ‘defence’ of western interests in South-East Asia as “the region produced nearly 85% of the world’s natural rubber, over 45% of the tin, 65% of the copra and 23% of the chromium ore.” More stridently, from a CIA memorandum two years earlier, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President John Kennedy had agreed to “liquidate President Sukarno, depending on the situation and available opportunities”.
Read the complete article at: http://robertluongo.blogspot.com/2007/11/indonesian-model.html
It is my honor to introduce Hajj Abdallah Luongo. This is taken from his site:
Hajj Luongo teaches Language and Rhetoric at Dallas College in Cape Town South Africa where he is delving into Shakespeare’s political plays: The History Plays,Roman Plays and Hamlet (and the Scottish Succession).
He is the author of The Gold Thread: Ezra Pounds Principles of Good Government & Sound Money, as well as numerous articles and essays.He was born in 1949 in Boston and grew up in New England. In 1970 while visiting California he met the Scottish writer Ian Dallas, who is most well known the world over as Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, and embraced Islam.
In 1975 he travelled to Mecca and performed the ancient rites of Pilgrimage known as the Hajj.Robert Luongo’s future projects include the publication of his Lectures on Shakespeare’s Political Plays and Selected Poetry and Prose .
Visit Hajj Luongo’s blog at: robertluongo.blogspot.com
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo;I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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