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Australia’s Failures to Deal with Islamism and Antisemitism Led to the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Israel and tagged Antisemitism, Australia, Bondi Beach, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Jews, jihadism, Lebanese gangs, Naveed Akram, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, organised crime, Sajid Akram, terrorism on December 15, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, activism, Africa, African National Congress, agitprop, Alamiro Guzmán, Amnesty International, ANC, anti-apartheid movement, anti-colonialism, anti-nuclear activism, Antonio Salazar, Augusto Pinochet, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Benjamín, Boat for Chile, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Carlos Altamirano, Chile, Chile Democrático, Chilean Communist Party, Christianity, Clodomiro Almeyda, CND, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, colonialism, Comandante Rodrigo, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, CPGB, Cuban Revolution, DDR, deception operations, democracy, Dissident Movement, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Erich Honecker, Escucha Chile, Eurocommunism, fascism, FPMR, Francisco Franco, Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, GDR, General Franco, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Greece, Gustavo Leigh, Hezbollah, Hizballah, human rights, human rights NGOs, Imperialism, influence operations, Intelligence, International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta, International Union of Students, Iran, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Jaime Guzmán, KGB, Kim Christiaens, Latin America, Lech Walesa, Libya, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Bustos, Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa al-Sadr, national liberation movements, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, pacifists, PCC, PCCh, peace movement, Poland, Pope John Paul II, Popular Front, Popular Unity, Portugal, propaganda, Raúl Pellegrin, Rodolfo Seguel, Roman Catholic Church, Sandinista Revolution, Sandinistas, Second World War, secret police, Shah, socialism, Socialist Commonwealth, Solidarity, Solidarność, South Africa, South America, Soviet Bloc, Soviet Dissidents, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, terrorism, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United Nations, Vietnam War, Vladimir Bukovsky, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, World Council of Churches, World Federation of Democratic Youth, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Peace Council, Yasser Arafat on December 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexei Kosygin, Andrés Allende, Andrés Pascal Allende, Angola, Augusto Pinochet, Bernard Lewis, Bolivia, Cambridge spies, Carlos Altamirano, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevara, Chile, Chile truckers' strike, Chilean coup, Christopher Andrew, Church Committee, CIA, Claudio Orrego, Claudio Véliz, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Chile, confidential contact, constitution, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Czechoslovakia, DDR, democracy, DGI, Diario Oficial, Directorate of National Liberation, DLN, East Germany, Eduardo Frei, El Furor y el Delirio, El Mercurio, ELN, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, extremism, Fernandez Oña, Fidel Castro, Fuerza Central, GAP, GDR, General Directorate of Intelligence, German Democratic Republic, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo des Amigos Personales, Grupo Móvil, Guatemalan coup, ideology, Informacion y Chequeo, Intelligence, Investigations Service, Joaquín Fermandois, Jorge Masetti, José Piñera, Joseph Stalin, Juan Carretero Ibáñez, KGB, Latin America, Leandro Yañéz, Leftist Revolutionary Movement, Leonid Brezhnev, Luis Corvalán, Magnificent Five, Mariano Rumor, Mario Garcίa Enchaustegui, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Miguel Enríquez, mir, Miristas, Movement of the Revolutionary Left, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Mozambique, National Liberation Army, national liberation movements, Nikolai Podgorny, North Korea, Novosti, Oscar Waiss, PCC, PCCh, Pedro Vuslovic, Popular Front, Popular Unity, PS, Rule of Law, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Sierra Maestra, socialism, Socialist Party, South America, South Vietnam, Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet Empire, Soviet Politburo, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spies, STASI, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World Strategy, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United States, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Yuri Andropov on December 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexander Herzen, Alexander II, Alfred Talandier, Anabaptism, Anabaptists, anarchism, Anna Geifman, Übermensch, Bakuninism, barin, Battle of Frankenhausen, Beznachalie Group, Bidbei, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Chigirin affair, Christianity, Communism, constitutionalism, DDR, Decembrist Revolt, Demons, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, East Germany, Farmers’ War, First International, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Going to the People, Iakov Stefanovich, ideology, industrialisation, Ishutin Society, Ivan Gavrilovich Pryzhov, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, Jacobinism, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kolokol, konspiratsiya, Leninism, Mark Natanson, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Pokrovsky, monarchy, morality, Nabat, Narodism, Narodnaya Rasprava, Narodnaya Volya, Narodnik, Narodovoltsy, Nechayevism, Nechayevshchina, Nikolai Ishutin, Nikolai Mezentsov, Nikolai Romanov, Nikolai Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Osip Aptekman, Paris Commune, Pavel Pestel, Peasants’ War, People’s Retribution, People’s Summary Justice, Peter Tkachev, propaganda, Pyotr Lavrov, Pyotr Shuvalov, Pyotr Stolypin, Pyotr Tkachev, Pyotr Tkachov, Pyotr Tkachyov, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, Raskol, Reformation, Romanovs, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Jacobins, Russian Orthodox Church, Schism, secret police, serfdom, Sergei Nechaev, Sergey Kravchinsky, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, Siberia, socialism, Soviet Union, Stepniak, Tchaikovskist, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Possessed, The Revolutionary Catechism, The Tocsin, Third Section, Thomas Muntzer, Tibor Szamuely, Tkachovism, Tsardom, Tsarism, USSR, utilitarianism, utopia, utopianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir Lenin, Vperyod, Werner Tübke, What is to Be Done?, Yezhovshchina, Young Russia on November 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged anarchism, assassination, Catechism of a Revolutionary, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Katekhizis revolutsionera, Mikhail Bakunin, Narodism, Narodnik, Nihilism, Nihilists, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sergei Nechaev, Sergei Nechayev, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The People, The Revolutionary Catechism, Tsar, volk on November 23, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Communism, enemy of the people, Ernst Röhm, fascism, First World War, Gabriel Konstantinovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Germany, Great Terror, GULAG, Holodomor, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kornilov Affair, Lavr Kornilov, Letopis, Mark Twain, Marxism, Maxim Gorky, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, Nicholas II, Night of the Long Knives, Nikolai Bukharin, NKVD, NSDAP, Okhrana, Okhranka, Potemkin tour, Povolzhye famine, propaganda, Pyotr Kryuchkov, RSDLP, Russia, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Sergei Kirov, show trials, socialism, Socialist Realism, Socialist Revolutionaries, Solovki Camp, Soviet New Man, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Trial of the Twenty-One, Tiberius, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Soviet Writers, Vladimir Lenin, Volga famine, Weimar Republic, Yezhovshchina, zeks on November 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abdul Jashari, Abdulaziz Hudaberdi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, Alawi massacres, Alawis, Alawites, Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bosnia, Brad Cooper, Caesar Act, Caesar sanctions, CENTCOM, China, David Petraus, Donald Trump, Druze, foreign fighters, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, ideology, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jewish State, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Kevin Lambert, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Lebanon, media, Palestinians, PKK, propaganda, public relations, Rabbi Yosef Hamra, Raed Fares, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repression, Salafi-jihadism, Sanctions, sectarianism, SNA, SOCOM, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taliban, terrorism, Thomas Barrack, TIP, torture, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, United Nations, United States Central Command, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban, Xinjiang, Zahid on November 13, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Tolkien, the Second World War, and Fighting Evil Without Becoming Evil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged area bombing, Arthur Harris, Beowulf, Bomber Harris, Christianity, Christopher Tolkien, Communism, First World War, Germany, Great War, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Nazis, Operation GOMORRAH, Roman Catholic Church, Second World War, Soviet Union, Soviets, strategic bombing, The Blitz, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings on November 8, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Action 14f13, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, agents, Alfredo Stroessner, Allied High Commission, Alois Hudal, Anabaptists, Andes Mountains, Angel of Death, Anschluss, Ante Pavelić, anti-Communism, Antisemitism, Apartheid South Africa, Arab States, Arabs, Argentina, Armin Schoklitsch, August Siebrecht, Augusto Pinochet, Austria, Axis Powers, Baroness Agnes von Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Bay of Pigs invasion, Benito Mussolini, Blagoje Jovović, Blanco Party, BND, Bolivia, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Brazil, Britain, CAPRI, Carlos Fuldner, Charles Lescat, Charles V, Che Guevara, Chetniks, Chile, clean Wehrmacht myth, cocaine coup, Colonia Dignidad, Colorado Party, Communism, Conquistadors, criollo, Cuba, death camps, Dignity Colony, DINA, Dinko Šakić, Dirty War, East Germany, Eduard Roschmann, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Excelentísimo, Enrique Peñaranda, Erich Priebke, Ernesto Guevara, Erwin Rommel, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, euthanasia, extermination, fascism, Félix Rodríguez, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco, Francoist Spain, Franjo Tuđman, Franz Stangl, French Resistance, Friedrich Jeckeln, Friedrich Schwend, Gehlen Organisation, General Franco, General Government, genocide, Gerhard Bohne, Germans, Germany, Germán Busch, Gestapo, Getúlio Vargas, Gualberto Villarroel, Gustav Wagner, Gypsies, Haiti, Hans Ertl, Hans Fischböck, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Hartheim Castle, Heinrich Himmler, Herbert Cukurs, HICOG, Higinio Morínigo, Hitler Youth, Holocaust, Holocaust By Bullets, Hugo Banzer Suárez, Inca Empire, Independent State of Croatia, Indians, Indigenous, Intelligence, Israel, Jasenovac concentration camp, Jean Moulin, Jews, Josef Mengele, Josef Schwammberger, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Juan José Torres, Juan Perón, Jugoslavija, KGB, Klaus Altmann, Klaus Barbie, Kripo, Krunoslav Draganović, La Dolorida, Ladino, Latin America, liberalism, Luis García Meza, Mario Terán, Marshal Tito, Martin Bormann, Mayans, Mennonites, Mexico, military dictatorship, Monika Ertl, MOSSAD, Muslims, National Intelligence Directorate, National Liberation Army, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, NDH, NSDAP, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation CONDOR, Operation ODESSA, Operation REINHARD, Pablo Escabar, Paraguay, Paul Schäfer, Peronism, Peru, Plan CONDOR, Protestants, racism, ratlines, Reich Security Main Office, René Barrientos, Richard Gott, Roberto Quintanilla, Rodolfo Freude, Roma, Roman Catholic Church, RSHA, Rumbula massacre, Russia, Schutzstaffel, Secretariat of Intelligence of the State, Serbs, Serge Klarsfeld, Shoah, Sicherheitsdienst, Sicherheitspolizei, Simón Bolívar Beate Klarsfeld, SiPo, Sobibor, South Africa, South America, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Stanislaw Szmajzner, Syria, T4 program, Third Reich, Toto Quintanilla, Treblinka, Tupamaros, U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, UDBA, Ukraine, Uruguay, Ustasha, Ustaše, Walter Kutschmann, Walter Rauff, Walter Unrath, war crimes, war criminals, War of the Triple Alliance, Wehrmacht, West German, Wilhelm Holm, Yugoslavia, Četniks on October 31, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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