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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Murdering with Impunity: The Rise in Terror Tactics Against News Reporters

Harvard International Review
November 14, 2010 / Frank Smyth
More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect.
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Iraq: No Consensus, No Constitution

Newsday
August 19, 2005 / Frank Smyth
Any notion of pluralism, let alone democracy, is not only new to Iraq; it threatens to upset a regional balance of power, made worse by confusion among U.S. experts over which group comprises the majority in Iraq.
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