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The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Adolph Eichmann, African National Congress, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Alfredo Guerra Borges, Allen Dulles, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, ANC, Angola, Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano, assassination, banana republic, Bernrado Alvaro Monzon, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Bolshevism, bourgeois nationalist, Carlos Castillo Armas, Central Intelligence Agency, Che Guevara, Chetniks, Chile, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Contras, Costa Rica, covert action, Crusade, Czechoslovakia, Decree 900, Derg, Dick Cheney, Dominican Republic, Dragoljub Mihailovich, Dragoljub Mihailović, Draža Mihailović, Dwight Eisenhower, Edmund Whitman, El Jefe, El Salvador, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, Fazlollah Zahedi, FDR, FLN, Francisco Franco, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, General Franco, Georgi Malenkov, Guatemala, Guatemalan Party of Labour, Guinea, gunboat diplomacy, Haiti, Halliburton, Harry Truman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Honduras, Hungary, ideology, Imperialism, International Railways of Central America, Iran, IRCA, J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, Jacobo Arbenz, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesús Maria de Galindez, Jesuits, John Foster Dulles, John Peurifoy, Jorge Toriello, Jorge Ubico, José Fortuny, José Manuel Fortuny, Joseph Mengele, Joseph Stalin, Juan Córdova Cerna, Juan José Arevalo, Juan Manuel Galvez, Juan Peron, Jugoslavija, Kermit Roosevelt, KGB, Korean War, Kwame Nkrumah, Latin America, League of the Militant Godless, Mali, Mario Silva Jonama, Marshal Tito, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mexico, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Modibo Keïta, Mohammad Mossadeq, Monroe Doctrine, Mozambique, MS Alfhem, Namibia, National Liberation Front, national liberation movements, Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, Nikita Khrushchev, North Korea, O. Henry, OAS, Operation AJAX, Operation BOOT, Operation PBFORTUNE, Operation PBSUCCESS, Operation WASHTUB, Organisation of American States, Oscar Osorio, peasants, PGT, Piero Gleijeses, PNPR, Portugal, psychological warfare, radicalism, Rafael Trujillo, Red China, Rhodesia, Robert Hill, Roman Catholic Church, Romulo Betancour, SACP, Salma uprising, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schroder Banking Corp., secret police, Shah, Somalia, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, StB, Stephen Kinzer, Stephen Schlesinger, Sullivan and Cromwell, terrorism, The Boss, Tiburcio Carias Andino, totalitarianism, Tudeh, UDBA, UFCO, United Fruit Company, Ustasha, Ustaše, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Vladimir Lenin, Walter Bedell Smith, William Sydney Porter, Yankee imperialism, Yugoslavia, Četniki, Četniks on November 30, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

America Sold Out Taiwan Before Conceding to Red China

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Anatoly Dobrynin, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Cambodia, CCP, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China lobby, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, Cultural Revolution, détente, Deng Xiaoping, Doctrine of Containment, Douglas MacArthur, France, French Revolution, Gang of Four, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Great Leap Forward, Guomindang, Henry Kissinger, Ho Chi Minh, ideology, Indochinese Communist Party, Israel, Joseph Stalin, journalists, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Laos, Lyndon Johnson, Mao Zedong, Marvin Liebman, media, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Nazi Germany, Nelson Rockefeller, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nikita Khrushchev, North Vietnam, Protestantism, Red China, Republic of China, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Second World War, Sino-Soviet split, South Vietnam, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Spiro Agnew, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square massacre, totalitarianism, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamization, William F. Buckley, Yom Kippur War, Zhou Enlai on October 1, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Strange, Strange Story of Colonia Dignidad in Chile

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged American televangelists, Argentina, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Baptism, Bavarian Village, Bible, Boris Weisfeiler, Charles Horman, Chile, Christianity, Colonia Dignidad, Costa Gavras, cult, Dignity Colony, DINA, Evangelical Free Church, Frank Teruggi, Germans, Germany, Guyana, Hartmut Hopp, Hugo Baar, Intensive Boarding School, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Jorge Alessandri, Jorge Zepeda, Joseph Mengele, los desaparecidos, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazis, Patricio Aylwin, Paul Schäfer, Pentecostalism, Peoples Temple, Reinhard Döring, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, Villa Baviera, Werner Schmidtke, West Germany, Wilhelmine Lindeman, William M. Branham on September 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged assassination, Augusto Pinochet, Black September, Camilo Valenzuela, Carlos Prats, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevera, Chile, Christian Democrats, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, cordones industriales, Cuba, Dawson’s Field, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Ernesto Guevera, false flag, Fidel Castro, First Chief Directorate, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo de Amigos Personales, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jorge Alessandri, KGB, Luis Corvalán, Marxism, Nathaniel Davis, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, René Schneider, Revolutionary Left Movement, Richard Nixon, Roberto Viaux, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Socialist Party, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, terrorism, Thomas Karamessines, totalitarianism, Unidad Popular, Vietnam, Yom Kippur War on September 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albania, Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Antisemitism, atrocities, Australia, Baltics, Berlin Blockade, Britain, Brown Scare, Cambodia, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, Dean Acheson, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Doctrine of Containment, Donald Maclean, Doolittle Report, Douglas MacArthur, DPRK, Dwight Eisenhower, East Germany, Estonia, Ethel Rosenberg, Europe, FDR, Finland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Blake, Greece, Greek Civil War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Hungary, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iron Curtain, Japan, Jews, John Cairncross, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, Kim Il Sung, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs, Korean War, Laos, Latvia, Laurence Duggan, Lee Beom-seok, Lithuania, Magnificent Five, MANHATTAN Project, Mao Zedong, Marshall Aid, Matthew Ridgway, McCarthyism, MGB, MI6, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NKVD, North Korea, NSA, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation FIEND, Operation VALUABLE, Poland, Popular Front, Red Army, Red China, Republic of Korea, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Shin Song-mo, SIS, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syngman Rhee, Turkey, United Nations, VALUABLE Project, VENONA, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Walton Walker, war crimes, William Weisband, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Workers’ Party of Korea, Yugoslavia on September 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The First Proxy War of the Cold War in Greece

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Albania, America, Antisemitism, Axis, Benito Mussolini, Britain, British Empire, Bulgaria, Cold War, Communism, Communist Party of Greece, communists, Containment Doctrine, December Events, Dekemvriana, EAM, ELAS, Eleni Papadaki, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Greece, Harry Truman, Holocaust, Italy, Josep Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, KKE, Marshall Aid, Moscow Centre, National Liberation Front, National Popular Liberation Army, Nazis, NKVD, Percentages Agreement, Popular Front, proxy war, purges, Red Army, Soviet Union, terrorists, Winston Churchill, Yugoslavia on September 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged African National Congress, ANC, Angola, assassination, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corruption, crime, Cuba, Cyril Ramaphosa, East Germany, Horst Kleinschmidt, ideology, Intelligence, KGB, Libya, MK, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, murder, Nelson Mandela, racism, SACP, secret police, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Third World Strategy, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, Umkhonto we Sizwe on September 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The September Massacres: The Violence Inherent in the French Revolution

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged AbbéSicard, American Revolution, ancien régime, atrocities, Austria, Austrian Netherlands, Battle of Yorktown, Belgium, bishops, Brabant Revolution, Britain, British Empire, Brunswick Manifesto, Charles William Ferdinand, Christianity, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, Communism, Comte de Rochambeau, Declaration of Pillnitz, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Duke of Brunswick, Enlightenment, Estates General, Fabre d’Eglantine, fédérés, François-Noël Babeuf, France, Frederick William II, French Revolution, genocide, George III, Georges Danton, Girondins, Guerre de Vendée, Habsburgs, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Inquisition, insurrection, Jacobins, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Jean-Denis Violette, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Marie Roland, Jean-Paul Marat, Joachim Ceyrat, Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, Leopold II, lettre de cachet, liberty, Louis Collenot d’Angremont, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Marquis de Sade, Maximilien Robespierre, monarchism, National Assembly, National Guard, Paris Commune, priests, Princesse de Lamballe, Prussia, radicalism, republicanism, Revolutionary Tribunal, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Roman Catholic Church, sans-culottes, secularism, September Massacres, Seven Years’ War, show trial, Siege of Yorktown, Simon Schama, slaves, Stanislas Maillard, Storming of the Bastille, Swiss Guards, Tennis Court Oath, Tenth of August Insurrection, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Tuileries Palace, Vendée, Vendée War, Versailles, War in the Vendée on September 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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