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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The slope is not so slippery, actually: Dems must tackle disinformation about gun control head-on

New York Daily News
March 13, 2021 / Frank Smyth
Gun groups have been circulating for months what they call the “Biden plan to destroy the Second Amendment." They claim that this is the fateful step that could start the slide to disarmament, and then genocide.
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Africa’s New Block

Foreign Affairs
March 3, 1998 / Dan Connell & Frank Smyth
SUB-SAHARAN Africa is undergoing its most profound changes since the early years of independence. Forces that have long held sway over the region are now either waning or gone. For decades the United States, the Soviet Union, and France propped up dictators who served their interests -- men like Ethiopia's...
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