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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Five myths about the National Rifle Association: No, the NRA did not start out as a civil rights organization.

The Washington Post
June 5, 2020 / Frank Smyth
Here are five myths about the NRA’s mission and history — some told by critics, others told by the NRA itself.
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Pentagon’s Latest Friend is Africa’s Newest Tyrant

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 15, 2002 / Frank Smyth
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld last week became the highest ranking American official to ever visit Africa's newest nation, the small state of Eritrea on the Red Sea across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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