How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It

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Frank Smyth
Could US complicity in war crimes in countries like Colombia offer a playbook for domestic repression? After the Cold War, U.S. advisors helped the Colombian military incorporate illegal paramilitaries to assassinate trade unionists, journalists and others.
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The Gospel of Gun Rights in the Age of Trump

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Frank Smyth
Not unlike the way authoritarians across the world have rewritten history to advance their agenda, pro-gun ideologues and leaders in the U.S. have invented their own gospel of gun rights.
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Salvadoran Rebels Anticipated Soviet Fall, Shifted Tack

The Christian Science Monitor
May 6, 1992 / Frank Smyth
EL SALVADOR'S leftist guerrilla movement began moving away from Marxism-Leninism several years before the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, they and independent analysts say. Since the FMLN was already...
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Behind the Badge: Meet the GOP’s Law Enforcement Front Group

The Texas Observer
July 30, 2004 / Frank Smyth
"LEAA is one of a new breed of shadowy front groups that is willing to serve as a corporate money conduit and attack dog to benefit GOP candidates." It's been quietly funded by National Rifle Association grants.
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