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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A Blood-spattered Stalemate

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
December 11, 1988 / Frank Smyth
EASTERN CHALATENANGO, El Salvador - A helicopter gunship riddled the landscape with heavy machine-gun fire as a battalion of 200 elite army soldiers trailed on the ground behind. Two miles away, a patrol of six guerrillas kept track on the oncoming battalion, communicating...
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Infallible Nation?

Asmarino.com
September 24, 2001 / Frank Smyth
Why would Eritrea keep secret something that seemed to be in their national interest to publicize? One reason is that their leaders were too proud to admit that some of their own men including officers had been killed.
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