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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The Chance to Cry

United Nations
May 1, 2002 / Frank Smyth
I never heard an outburst like the one a young Iraq Shia boy made as I helplessly watched from my own prison cell as he was tortured by Saddam's guards, until my golden retriever cried out one day after she was bitten by a Rottweiler.
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Gun lobby helps block US from signing UN arms treaty

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March 25, 2013 / Frank Smyth
The gun lobby-backed Inhofe amendment requires the executive branch “to uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
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