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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A war ‘shock and awe’ didn’t win

Newsday
March 21, 2006 / Frank Smyth
President George W. Bush's strategy of launching a "shock and awe" campaign was designed to send the message that resistance to superior U.S. firepower is futile, but it's not turning out as planned.
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El Salvador’s Forgotten War

The Progressive
August 1, 1987 / Frank Smyth
El Salvador’s Forgotten War, by Frank Smyth, The Progressive, August 1987. This story that appeared in print was put republished online 27 years later by The Progressive on its website in December 2014 after the launch of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture during the administration led by President George H.W. Bush after […]
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