Michael Vann: Orca 5th Columnist
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Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", Jacobin Southeast Asia Columnist, mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest, DLL
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Good piece! This was my brief - reconciliationtim.ca/timor/who-is...
Who is Prabowo Subianto?
Who is Prabowo Subianto? Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo, known as Prabowo, was confirmed as president-elect of Indonesia on 20 March 2024. A social media sensation, Prabowo is also implicated in …
reconciliationtim.ca
August 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Good piece! This was my brief - reconciliationtim.ca/timor/who-is...
Excellent. Thank you!
August 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Excellent. Thank you!
“Did several tours” is putting it mildly. I went with: As a young officer, he led a Special Forces commando unit in the brutal occupation of East Timor. Prabowo’s team of ‘Ninjas,’ irregular troops who dressed in black and operated at night, terrorized the population.
jacobin.com/2024/02/prab...
jacobin.com/2024/02/prab...
Indonesia’s New President Is Dangerously Authoritarian
Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo, has a gruesome track record of human rights violations and hostility to democracy. But a slick campaign successfully presented him as a cuddly grandpa figure, with ...
jacobin.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Did several tours” is putting it mildly. I went with: As a young officer, he led a Special Forces commando unit in the brutal occupation of East Timor. Prabowo’s team of ‘Ninjas,’ irregular troops who dressed in black and operated at night, terrorized the population.
jacobin.com/2024/02/prab...
jacobin.com/2024/02/prab...
Hopefully this can redeem myself in your eyes: jacobin.com/2025/08/indo...
Indonesia’s Rulers Are Whitewashing the Crimes of Suharto
In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political massacres. Under the rule of Prabowo, the country’s government is suppressing the m...
jacobin.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hopefully this can redeem myself in your eyes: jacobin.com/2025/08/indo...
Oh shit… 🫣 … I won’t disclose what high level government official sent that to me.
August 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Oh shit… 🫣 … I won’t disclose what high level government official sent that to me.
I had to fight my editor to avoid what I started calling “the Ratatouille fallacy”.
August 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I had to fight my editor to avoid what I started calling “the Ratatouille fallacy”.