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Contributions Murdering with impunity: the dramatic rise in the slaying of reporters COMMENTARY | November 325, 2010 More journalists were killed in 2009 than ever before and most were deliberately targeted. The majority of victims since 1992 have been beat reporters doing their job -- not investigative reporters or ones who died in combat. In Afghanistan, outright homicides account for 59 percent of journalists killed since 1992. In Iraq, 63 percent of journalists killed since the US-led invasion in 2003 were murdered.  When Looking at Mexico’s Drug Violence, Don’t Forget Guatemala’s Silent Mafia ASK THIS | May 139, 2010 On May 5, the FBI and DEA together told Congress that more cocaine is being shipped through Guatemala than ever before. And among the suspected drug lords today are the same military intelligence officers who engineered massacres in Guatemala more than a quarter century ago. Guatemala, home of powerful drug runners ASK THIS | November 324, 2005 In an article in the Texas Observer, Frank Smyth tells how the Guatemalan military and U.S.-trained anti-narcotics police have been running drugs and committing violence with impunity for more than a decade. Here he provides some background and links on this seldom-reported story. How soft money gets dirty in a way no one can trace ASK THIS | August 237, 2004 Some political campaign groups play by the rules, registering their activities with the FEC, the IRS or both, writes freelance journalist Frank Smyth. Others, including ones that run vicious attack ads on TV, may skirt the law — or rely on lack of oversight by the IRS — to find ways of keeping secret the names of their contributors. |
