How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It

/
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.
Read more

The Gospel of Gun Rights in the Age of Trump

/
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.
Read more

How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It

New Lines Magazine
October 24, 2025 / 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.
Read more
 

Death of an Anthropologist

The Progressive
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...
Read more
 

Frank’s clips from:
Browse by Region
1
2
3
4
1

North America

2

Latin America

3

Middle East

4

Africa

By Country
By Type
Frank’s Latest Tweets
Browse Frank’s clips by:

Frank Smyth Follow

Author The NRA: The Unauthorized History #UnauthorizedNRA; armed conflicts, organized crime, human rights; CEO @GJSsecurity hostile env. training. He/his/him.

SmythFrank
Load More

Publication List

By Date