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.

Iraq’s Eclipsed Red Star?

January 13, 2003 / Frank Smyth
How many anti-war activists like Sean Penn know their left from their right in Iraq? Or that the Iraqi Communist Party produces more detailed reports on torture under Saddam than any Western human rights group?

Saddam’s Real Opponents

March 25, 2002 / Frank Smyth
The influential journal Foreign Affairs ran an article on Iraq entitled "The Rollback Fantasy." But unfortunately, it got Iraqi's basic demographic's all wrong to create a myth that misled President George W. Bush and others.

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