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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Jammeh ‘Award’ Coverage Reflects Chill in Gambian Press

The Comittee to Protect Journalists
September 24, 2010 / Frank Smyth
President Yahyah Jammeh, the former despot of Gambia, claimed to win four awards in the U.S. Only one, a satirical, land-locked Nebraska "admiralship" was real.
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The NRA’s 40-year problem: It chose its leadership and gun-rights zealotry over integrity and a simpler mission

New York Daily News
August 9, 2020 / Frank Smyth
The financial scandal that erupted inside the National Rifle Association reminded me of a scandal nearly a century before. NRA leaders back then, however, handled it differently from the way leaders have done today.
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