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.

Al Gore and the Iraqi Democracy Question

March 2, 2000 / Frank Smyth
Then-Vice President Al Gore was the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote "democracy in Iraq." Nothing would be more revolutionary for a place that had been long dominated by a small minority.

Sand Diggers and the Strongman

June 3, 1989 / Frank Smyth
Vista Hermosa, El Salvador -- A powerful torrent during the high rains, Rio Las Canas is a trickle of muddy water from October to May. It begins ten kilometers from the city center, carving its way north past volcanic slopes, eventually feeding into the large, man-made reservoir that separates government-held terrain from...

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