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.

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.

El narco-Estado intocable: Militares guatemaltecos desafían a la DEA

November 18, 2005 / Frank Smyth
Altos jefes de inteligencia están entre los fundadores de un club oscuro que se autonombra "la cofradía," y que fue la "ingeniería" de tácticos que incluyeron "actos de genocidio" de comunidades mayas.

Next test: insurgents

February 1, 2005 / Frank Smyth
The Bush administration looks like it has finally scored a ringing success in Iraq. But, if one objective of Sunday's elections was to help defeat Iraq's ongoing insurgencies, then the exercise failed. The question now is how Iraq's next government will handle the insurgents. Before Sunday, they threatened voters. But U.S. troops led the effort to secure polling stations, while more than half of Iraq's eligible voters defied insurgent threats and exercised their first real chance for self-empowerment in history.

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