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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Who Are the Progressives in Iraq?: The Left, the Right, and the Islamists

Foreign Policy in Focus
September 21, 2004 / Frank Smyth
One event in Baghdad went unreported this month, not only by the mainstream media but also by the "alternative" press, even though it implies that U.S. control over Iraq's political future may already be waning.
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The Horror: Rwanda, a history lesson

The New Republic
June 20, 1994 / Frank Smyth
For most of the world, Rwanda's dark spasm of violence seemed to come out of nowhere. It didn't. Though the bloodiness of the killing fields is unprecedented, the country, at least in its post-colonial existence, has been subject to a number of massacres: some took place...
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