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.

Introducing the NRA kingmakers

February 26, 2013 / Frank Smyth
The rites of spring rarely change. Every year, even before turkey season begins, hunters begin sighting their shotguns. Every spring, too, eligible members of the National Rifle Association elect directors to its governing board.

Death of an Anthropologist

March 1, 1992 / Frank Smyth
An unusual cartoon appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper. It showed the small figure of Helen Mack swinging a hammer, chipping away at a towering brick wall that symbolized more than thirty-seven years of military impunity. Helen Mack is leading her family's investigation of the September 1990 assassination of her sister, Myrna...

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