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.

El Salvador’s Forgotten War

August 1, 1987 / Frank Smyth
El Salvador’s Forgotten War, by Frank Smyth, The Progressive, August 1987. This story that appeared in print was put republished online 27 years later by The Progressive on its website in December 2014 after the launch of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture during the administration led by President George H.W. Bush after […]

One Year After Sandy Hook, Shooting is Still a Family Sport

December 13, 2013 / Frank Smyth
What was the mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter thinking? Trying to find a way to help her troubled youngest son, whom she brought him to area gun ranges where other, well-adjusted young men practiced.

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