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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Africa’s Inexplicable Horn

IntellectualCapital.com
May 18, 2000 / Frank Smyth
Like elsewhere in Africa, Western efforts on the African Horn come too little too late. Even if the U.N. security council were to now impose an arms embargo, it could only help lessen the intensity of the next round of fighting
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El Salvador: People Have Reason to Be Afraid

Z Magazine
January 3, 1988 / Frank Smyth
The grandmother cupped her palm under Goyito's chin and pressed down hard with her fingers on his upper jaw. "Look, this is how we did it," she said, demonstrating how she kept the baby from crying when government troops passed by. "They wanted me to kill...
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