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Has Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Been Displaced By an IRGC “Military Coup” in Iran?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 May 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Ali Abdollahi, Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, Alireza Salarian, Artesh, Ayatollah Khamenei, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, disinformation, Donald Trump, Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, James Adams, John Ratcliffe, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mazaher Hosseini, media war, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Mojtaba Khamenei, Pete Hegseth, propaganda, Rahbar-e Mo'azzam, SNSC, Supreme Leader, Supreme National Security Council, United States, velayat-e faqih on May 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

American Travellers in British Palestine in 1936

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 May 2026

Below is the reproduction of an article from British Mandate Palestine in 1936.

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This entry was posted in Israel and tagged Antisemitism, Arab Revolt, Arabs, British Mandate Palestine, Israel, Jews, Syria, The Jerusalem Post, The Palestine Post, Zionism on May 11, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: ‘Cover-Up’ (2025)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 May 2026

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History and tagged Abu Ghraib scandal, activism, al-Qaeda, Antonio Taguba, Ari Ben-Menashe, Arthur Schlesinger, Augusto Pinochet, Barack Obama, Bob Kerrey, Camille Lo Sapio, Central Intelligence Agency, chemical weapons of mass destruction, Chile, Church Committee, CIA, Citizenfour, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Cover-Up, Cuba, Defense Department, democracy, disinformation, Edward Korry, Edward Snowden, Ernest Medina, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, forgeries, George W. Bush, Ghouta Massacre, Ha My Massacre, Henry Kissinger, Hue Massacre, Hugh Thompson Jr., ideology, Indochina, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq War, ISI, James Angleton, James Jesus Angleton, James R. Schlesinger, John F. Kennedy, KGB, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Laura Poitras, Lawrence X. Cusack, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Marilyn papers, Mark Obenhaus, media, Michael Terry, MKULTRA, My Khe Massacre, My Lai Massacre, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Operation CHAOS, Operation ORCHARD, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Paul Meadlo, Pentagon, Phong Nhi Massacre, poison gas, press, propaganda, Richard Nixon, Rockefeller Commission, Russia, Salvador Allende, Seymour Hersh, South Korea, Soviet Union, Sy Hersh, Syria, terrorism, Thanh Phong Massacre, The Dark Side of Camelot, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vietcong, Vietnam War, war crimes, Watergate scandal, William Calley, William Colby, WMD on May 8, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State View of Al-Qaeda’s Alliance with the Tuaregs in Mali

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 May 2026

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This entry was posted in African Jihadism, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Africa Corps, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, al-Naba, Al-Naba 545, al-Qaeda, Azawad Liberation Front, Bible, deen, democracy, FLA, France, Front de libération de l’Azawad, global jihad, GRU, Hadith, ideology, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen, Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, jihadism, JNIM, Libya, Mali, military intelligence, nationalism, patriotism, Qur’an, Russia, secularism, separatism, Syria, Taliban, Tuaregs, Wagner Group on May 4, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Tsardom and the Jews: Antisemitism and Official Policy in the Russian Empire

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander II, Alexander III, Andrei Yushchinsky, Antisemitism, assassination, autocracy, Beilis trial, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Boevye Druzhiny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Christians, collectivisation, Combat Groups, Communism, concentration camps, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Count Dmitry Tolstoy, Count Sergei Witte, Czechoslovak Coup, dekulakisation, Dmitriy Gotovtsev, Dmitry Bogrov, Dmitry Gotovtsev, Dreyfus Case, East German uprising, Easter, Emperor, Enlightenment, Fighting Squads, Gendarme, Gomel pogrom, Great Terror, GULAG, historiography, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, humanism, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Israel, Jewish Question, Jews, Kadets, Katyn massacre, Kishinev pogrom, Kolyma, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kronstadt rebellion, liberalism, liberals, Lithuania, May Laws, Menahem Mendel Beilis, monarchy, Narodnaya Volya, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nicholas II, Nikolai Ignatiev, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pale of Settlement, People’s Will, pogroms, pogromshchiki, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, political police, Prague Spring, propaganda, Pyotr Stolypin, Reds, Roman Catholicism, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, secret police, sectarianism, serfdom, serfs, socialism, socialists, Solovki Prison Camp, Soviet Union, terror-famine, terrorism, Theodor Herzl, Third Section, Third Section of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery, Tsar, Tsar-Liberator, Tsardom, Tsarist Government, Uganda Project, Ukraine, Volksaufstand, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav von Plehve, White Movement, Whites, Yezhovshchina, Zionism, Zionist movement on April 29, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

“Religion” is Not a Human Universal

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arab world, Arabs, Augustine, Bernard Lewis, Bible, Christendom, Christianity, Christians, church, clergy, Communism, deen, democracy, din, Enlightenment, ethnos, French Revolution, Fuqaha, Gaza War, God, Gospels, Hagarenes, Halakhah, HAMAS, infidels, Ioudaismos, Iranian Revolution, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamdom, Islamic Government, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamists, jahiliyya, James George Frazer, Jews, jihadists, Judaism, laik, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, nationalism, Ottoman Empire, pagan, paganism, Papal Revolution, particularism, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Reformation, religio, religion, Roman Empire, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, saecularia, saeculum, Safavids, secular, secularism, Shah, sharia, Shia, slavery, State, Sunni, Tanakh, ulema, umma, universalism, Westernisation, world religions on April 26, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 5-HTTLPR, academia, active measures, activism, Adolf Hitler, Allies, Alzheimer’s disease, ANCA, Andonian Documents, Ani Kalayjian, Antisemitism, antizionism, ARA, Aram Andonian, archives, ARF, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenians, Arnold Toynbee, ASALA, Beirut, Bernard Lewis, Bosnia, Bosporus, Britain, Cambodia, Caucasus Campaign, clairvoyance, Cold War, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, counter-insurgency, CUP, Dardanelles, Dashnaks, deportation, diaspora, Donald Bloxham, E. K. Sarkissian, East Timor, Entente, Esat Uras, Fascifists, fedayeen, First Armenian Republic, First World War, genetics, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Green, George Orwell, Gerard Libaridian, Germany, Guatemala, Guenter Lewy, guerrillas, Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry Morgenthau, Herero and Namaqua, historians, historiography, History, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust deniers, Holodomor, IAGS, ideological capture, ideology, Indonesia, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Islamic Revolution, Israel Charny, JCAG, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Korean War, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, lobby organisations, medicine, Michael M. Gunter, missionaries, Moscow Centre, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Naim Bey, Naim-Andonian Documents, Narodniks, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, negationism, nerkaght, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, Ottoman Empire, pacifism, pacifists, Palestine Liberation Organisation, parapsychology, Paul Rassinier, Peter Balakian, PKK, PLO, political warfare, precognition, propaganda, psi, psychiatry, psychokinesis, psychology, R. G. Sahakian, Raphael Lemkin, relocation, replication crisis, Richard G. Hovannisian, Richard Hovannisian, Robert Melson, Roger W. Smith, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Science, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, secularism, Shoah, Simon Vratsian, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stanford J. Shaw, Stanford Shaw, Sublime Porte, Talat Pasha, Taner Akçam, telepathy, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Blue Book, The Great Repatriation, The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, theology, transgenderism, Turkey, Turkish Straits, Ukraine, United States, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahakn N. Dadrian, Young Turks, Yves Ternon, Zionism, Zoryan Institute on April 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Course-Correcting Britain’s Middle East Strategy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 April 2026

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This entry was posted in British Politics, Foreign Policy and tagged Armilla Patrol, Bahrain, ballistic missiles, Britain, Carrier Strike Group, Cyprus, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Ed Miliband, Europe, F-35s, foreign policy, GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council, Gulf States, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HMS Dragon, HMS Lancaster, HMS Middleton, Iran, Iran War, IRGC, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Labour Party, LNG, Masoud Pezeshkian, Middle East, NATO, oil, Oman, Operation HIGHMAST, Qatar, RAF Akrotiri, Royal Navy, Saudi Arabia, Sir Keir Starmer, Strait of Hormuz, Strategic Defence Review, strategy, Syria, Turkey, Typhoons, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States on April 2, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: 1860s to 1915

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 1856 Paris Treaty, 1871 London Declaration, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Abraham Hartunian, Aleksandr Adamov, Aleksandr Olferiev, Alexander A. Adamov, Alexander Khatisian, Alexander Khatissian, Allied Landing at Gallipoli, Andranik, Andranik Ozanian, ARA, Aram Manukian, Aram Turabian, ARF, Armen Garo, Armenakan Party, Armenian genocide, Armenian Narodniks, Armenian national movement, Armenian Patriarchate, Armenian Provinces, Armenian Question, Armenian Republic, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian revolutionary movement, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian volunteers, Armenians, Arshak Gavafian, ASALA, Balkan Wars, Battle of Sarikamish, Bedros Kapamajian, Bitlis uprising, Boghos Nubar, Bolshevik coup, Britain, Caliph, caliphate, Capitulations, Captain Molyneux-Seel, Caucasus Campaign, Cemal Pasha, Christendom, Christians, Civil War, Clarence Ussher, Commander Vartan, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Congress of Berlin, Constantinople, Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, counter-insurgency, Crimean War, CUP, Cyrus Hamlin, Dardanelles Strait, Dashnaks, Defence of Van, Djemal Pasha, Drastamat Kanayan, dreadnought, Dro, Enlightenment, Enver Pasha, Erzurum, fedayi, First World War, France, French Revolution, Friedrich Posselt, Gallipoli Campaign, Garegin Nzhdeh, Garegin Pastermadjian, General Andranik, Germany, Great Eastern Crisis, Great War, Greek War of Independence, Grigor Avsharian, Grigory Chernozubov, guerrilla warfare, guerrillas, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutyun, Henry Morgenthau, Herbert Henry Asquith, Holocaust, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Hrayr Dzhoghk, Hunchaks, Hungarian uprising, Ian M. Smith, ideology, Imperial Russia, IMRO, insurgency, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Iran, Islam, JCAG, jihad, jizya, Joseph Pomiankowski, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kapriel Papazian, Kapriel S. Papazian, Keri, Kevork Chavush, Khoren Ashekian, Kurdish tribes, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism, Marxism, Mekertich Portukalian, Mikael Seryan, Mikayel Papadjanian, Mikayel Varandian, Moushegh Seropian, Muhacir, Mullah Selim, Muslims, Narodniki, national liberation movement, nationalism, Nikolai Hartwig, Nikolai Yudenich, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ottoman Armenia, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Third Army, Pandukht, Persia, politics, Posselt Pascha, propaganda, Protestant, provocation strategy, Pyotr Kalitin, Rafael de Nogales, Ramgavar Party, Robert W. Graves, Roman Catholics, Russia, Sargis Mehrabyan, Sasun rebellion, sectarianism, Selim Efendi al-Hizani, Serbia, Sergey Sazonov, Sir Philip Currie, Six Provinces, Six Vilayets, Social Democratic Hunchakian Party, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Special Organisation, Stanley E. Kerr, strategy of provocation, Sublime Porte, Sultan, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Tehcir Law, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, Treaty of Berlin, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Turkey, Turkish Armenia, United States, Van rebellion, Wilhelm Souchon, Winston Churchill, Yeniköy Treaty, Young Turk Revolution, Young Turks, Zeytun rebellion on March 31, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Attacks Al-Qaeda as a Member of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Afghanistan, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, America, Axis of Resistance, Crusaders, Egypt, Gaza, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ikhwan, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, jihadism, Mohamed Morsi, Muhammad Saladin Zaidan, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Muslim Brotherhood, Operation EPIC FURY, Pakistan, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, Rabia, Resistance Axis, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, sectarianism, Shi’a, Taliban, United States, Zahedan on March 25, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

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