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.

A war ‘shock and awe’ didn’t win

March 21, 2006 / Frank Smyth
President George W. Bush's strategy of launching a "shock and awe" campaign was designed to send the message that resistance to superior U.S. firepower is futile, but it's not turning out as planned.

Practicing journalism in a smaller, riskier world

July 1, 2011 / Frank Smyth
Printing presses inked out text in different written languages for over a 1,000 years, and, in more recent centuries, gave rise to the term we still use for news outlets: the press.

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