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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Official Sources, Western Diplomats and Other Voices from the Mission

Columbia Journalism Review
January 3, 1993 / Frank Smyth
On the post-cold war era, ethnic rivalry may have replaced ideology as the most likely cause of conflict, but while all else changes one journalistic habit picked up during the past four decades will, in all likelihood, persist -- the habit of relying heavily on the mission, as the U.S. embassy is known, for assessments and information. In an increasingly unfamiliar world, in fact, the temptation to do so will be even stronger...
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The Truth Will Out

The Village Voice
July 31, 1990 / Frank Smyth
SAN SALVADOR- The official purpose given for Assistant Secretary of State Bernard Aronson's visit here two weeks ago was to express support for negotiations between El Salvador's U.S.-backed government and the leftist guerrillas. But the real reason the ranking state department policymaker for Latin America...
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