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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Living Dangerously: A Review of “The Lion’s Grave”

The Washington Post
November 10, 2002 / Frank Smyth
Any egomaniac with an audience can do a live stand-up in an alleged combat zone, but Jon Lee Anderson is a war correspondent's journalist. His book, The Lion's Grave, skillfully navigates Afghani politics.
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Colombia’s Blowback

Transnational Institute
January 3, 1997 / Frank Smyth
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below by investigative journalist Frank Smyth was published last Fall by the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Accion Andina (Cochabomba, Bolivia) as a chapter titled, “La Mano Blanca en Colombia,” in the book, Crimen Uniformado [Crime in Uniform]: entre la corrupcion y la impunidad (1997). It appears in Antifa Info-Bulletin with the […]
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