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.

What the Judiciary Committee Should Ask Wayne LaPierre

January 29, 2013 / Frank Smyth
The main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.

The Horror: Rwanda, a history lesson

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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