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.

MLB vs. NRA: Compare and contrast

July 20, 2021 / Frank Smyth
Major League Baseball and the National Rifle Association are each a century and a half old. But while MLB celebrates its history, the NRA buries and rewrites its own, likely because its true history is inconvenient for its modern plans.

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