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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Dana Loesch follows NRA playbook in Town Hall meeting by deflecting questions, avoiding fundamental conversation about gun access

New York Daily News
February 22, 2018 / Frank Smyth
Parkland student Emma Gonzalez's question was on point, but NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch never answered it.
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Colombia Briefing: Bad Press

The Comittee to Protect Journalists
September 1, 2001 / Frank Smyth
This story became of the evidence that led the State Department to designate Carlos Castano and his paramilitary group known by its acronym in Spanish as the AUC, as a terrorist organization over a year later, in 2002.
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