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.

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.

Will Justice Be Possible In Guatemala?

May 23, 2013 / Frank Smyth
These three presidents have stories that are interwoven. Much like the threads of an olive green military dress uniform, pulling too hard, now, at any one loose string, could start unraveling the fabric to bare what lies beneath.

Al Gore and the Iraqi Democracy Question

March 2, 2000 / Frank Smyth
Then-Vice President Al Gore was the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote "democracy in Iraq." Nothing would be more revolutionary for a place that had been long dominated by a small minority.

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