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.

Pentagon’s Latest Friend is Africa’s Newest Tyrant

December 15, 2002 / Frank Smyth
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld last week became the highest ranking American official to ever visit Africa's newest nation, the small state of Eritrea on the Red Sea across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Justify My War: Why Clinton Eyes Haiti’s Drug Trade and Ignores Guatemala’s

August 2, 1994 / Frank Smyth
While Bill Clinton's White House invokes Haitian drug trafficking as a key rationale for invasion, it is continuing the Bush administration policy of virtually ignoring...

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