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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Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords

The Nation
March 9, 2007 / Frank Smyth
President George W. Bush's trip to Latin America also comes in the wake of evidence that organized crime has infiltrated the top law enforcement agencies of two nations on his travel itinerary.
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MLB vs. NRA: Compare and contrast

New York Daily News
July 20, 2021 / Frank Smyth
Major League Baseball and the National Rifle Association are each a century and a half old. But while MLB celebrates its history, the NRA buries and rewrites its own, likely because its true history is inconvenient for its modern plans.
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