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Should Syria’s New Rulers Be on the Terrorism List?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 December 2024

This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Alawis, Alawites, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, Christians, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihadism, jihadists, John Sawers, MI5, MI6, Qatar, religious minorities, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Security Service, SIS, Syria, terrorism, Turkey on December 11, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, Iran, Islamic Militancy and tagged activism, Adnan Jahić, advocacy journalism, AKP, al-Qaeda, Alija Izetbegović, Arkan, Asim Blekić, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Çetin Doğan, Balyoz, Bill Clinton, Borislav Herak, Bosnian civil war, Bošniaks, Branko Veleć, Britain, Caco, Captive Nations, China, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Croats, cult, Dani Rodrik, Deep State, Douglas Hurd, Ed Vulliamy, El-Mudžahid Brigade, Ergenekon, ethnic cleansing, Ettela’at, Eve-Ann Prentice, false flags, fascism, Fethullah Gülen, Fikret Muslimović, Franjo Tudjman, Franjo Tuđman, genocide, Greater Serbia, HAMAS, Handschar Division, Hasan Čengić, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hizmet Hareketi, Hizmet movement, ICTY, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, international aid, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international law, Iran, Iranian Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Declaration, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, jihadists, JNA, Josip Broz Tito, journalism, Jugoslav National Army, Jugoslavija, Juka Prazina, Juka’s Wolves, Justice and Development Party, Jusuf Prazina, Kasim Blekić, Kemalism, Kemalists, Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KOS, Koševo Hospital, Kravica massacre, Krso Ramiz, Larks, League of Communists, Lewis MacKenzie, Lisbon Agreement, Macedonia, Mate Boban, media, Mirsad Tokača, Montenegro, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mušan Topalović, Naser Orić, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nedžad Ugljen, New York Times, Nikola Gardović, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Odred el-Mudžahid, Omarska, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation FRAME, Operation STORM, Orthodox Christians, Osama bin Laden, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Party of Democratic Action, Patriotic League, political warfare, PR, propaganda, public relations, Radovan Karadžić, Ramiz Delalić, rape as a weapon of war, Ratko Mladić, Rebecca West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, religion, Renate Flottau, Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, Risto Pustivuk, Roman Catholics, Samantha Power, Sandžak, SDA, secret police, secularism, Sefer Halilović, Senad Avdić, Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbs, Seventh Muslim Brigade, Sledgehammer, Slobodan Milošević, Slobodna Bosna, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Sretko Damjanović, SS, State Department, strategic messaging, Third Balkan War, Third World Relief Agency, Trnopolje, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, VEVAK, Vojislav Šešelj, war crimes, war rape, Young Muslims, Yugoslavia, Zvornik, Ševe, Željko Ražnatović, Ćelo on October 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2024

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfredo Stroessner, Antisemitism, Arab States, Arabs, Argentina, art, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Trials, Baader-Meinhof Gang, blood libel, Brazil, Britain, Cavaliers, Chile, Colonia Dignidad, Communism, concentration camps, Croatia, cult, death camps, East Germany, Ecuador, English Civil Wars, fascism, Final Solution, First World War, France, Fritz Bauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Hannah Arendt, Hans Globke, Hans Habe, Harald Jähner, Heinrich Himmler, Henri Nannen, Holocaust, Indemnity and Oblivion Act, Israel, Jacobites, Jews, Joseph Mengele, Juan Perón, Kielce pogrom, Konrad Adenauer, Kristallnacht, Kurt Kiesinger, Latin America, MOSSAD, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, NSDAP, Nuremberg Laws, Nuremberg Race Laws, Nuremberg Trials, Paraguay, pogroms, Poland, propaganda, public opinion, Puritans, Red Army, Red Army Faction, Roundheads, Rwanda, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, Shoah, Social Democratic Party, Soviet Union, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, Third Reich, Uruguay, Ustasha, Ustaše, victimhood, Waffen-SS, Walter Rauff, Walter Scheel, Walter von Molo, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Weimar Republic, Werewolf, West Germany, Willy Brandt, Wolfgang Hedler on September 5, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Nature of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Imperialism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 August 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Alaska, Aleut, Aleutian Islands, Alexander II, Alexander III, American Indians, autocracy, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bolsheviks, Britain, California, Canada, Catherine the Great, Central Asia, Christianity, colonialism, Cossacks, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, dinosaurs, Djibouti, East India Company, Ekaterina Geladze, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Entente Cordiale, Ethiopia, Fashoda Incident, Finland, First World War, Fort Ross, French Revolution, French Somaliland, Georg Anton Schäffer, Germany, Great Game, Great Reforms, Greek Catholics, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Shelikhov, Hawaii, Hudson’s Bay Company, Imperial Government, Imperialism, Innocent of Alaska, Iran, Islam, Jews, Joseph Stalin, July Crisis, Kaiser, Keke, Kodiak, Koniag, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Manifest Destiny, March to India, Marquis de Custine, Mongol Empire, Muslims, New Archangel, New Moscow, Nicholas I, Nikolai Achinov, Okhrana, Okhranka, Ottoman Empire, paganism, Panjdeh Incident, Paul I, Pavel I, Persia, Peter the Great, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Pyotr I, Roman Empire, Russia, Russian America, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Somaliland, Russian-American Company, Russo-Japanese War, Sagallo, salt water fallacy, Scramble for Africa, serfdom, Siberia, Sitka, slavery, slaves, Soviet Union, Spain, Spanish Americas, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World, Tlingit, totalitarianism, Ukraine, Uniates, United States, Velociraptor, Veniaminov, Vitus Bering on August 29, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Book Review: ‘The Knife Went In’

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 July 2024

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This entry was posted in Book Review and tagged academia, Africa, Anthony Daniels, antisocial personality disorder, Britain, bureaucracy, Christianity, Communism, crime, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, drugs, Fenianism, human rights, ideology, insanity, Jack the Ripper, justice, Kiribati, liberalism, liberals, Marxist theology, Metropolitan Police, morality, murder, North Korea, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, police, policing, poverty, prisons, psychiatry, psychopaths, psychopathy, rehabilitation, Rhodesia, Robert Conquest madness, Robert Peel, Sixties Revolution, South Africa, statistics, terrorism, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Szasz, violence on July 20, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Northern Ireland Cares Deeply About Israel and the Palestinians. Why?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Africa, African National Congress, ANC, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Angola, Anti-Treaty IRA, ANZAC, Arab slave trade, Arabs, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Arthur Griffith, Australia, Éamon de Valera, Basque ETA, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Aughrim, Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Naseby, Battle of the Boyne, Belfast, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Black and Tans, Blackadder, Britain, British Empire, Catholics, Chaim Herzog, Communism, counter-intelligence, Dáil Éireann, Divis Street, Douglas Hyde, East Germany, Easter Rising, Eire, English Civil Wars, ethnic cleansing, First Judeans, First World War, Gallipoli, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Greater Syrianism, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, Home Rule crisis, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Ireland’s Independence War, IRGC, Irgun, Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish nationalists, Irish Republican Army, Irish Volunteers, Irish War of Independence, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic slave trade, James Connolly, Jewish Legion, John Henry Patterson, Joseph Trumpeldor, Judah Maccabee, Kaiser, Kenya, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lehi, Londonderry, man-eaters of Tsavo, Mandate Palestine, mythology, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazis, Nazism, Nelson Mandela, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Northumberland Street, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Old IRA, Operation LION, Orange Lodge, Orange Order, Original Irish Republican Army, Originals, Otto Skorzeny, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Protestants, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos, Republicans, Revisionist Zionism, Ronald Storrs, Royal Fusiliers, Russia, SACP, Saint Patrick’s Day, Second Boer War, siege of Port Arthur, Six-Day War, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, spies, STASI, Taoiseach, terrorism, The Falls Road, The Shankill Road, The Twelfth, Uganda Railway, Ulster, Ulster Volunteer Forces, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Umkhonto weSizwe, Unionists, UVF, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Winston Churchill, Yasser Arafat, Yishuv, Young Turks, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Zion Mule Corps, Zionism, Zionists on July 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Legacy of Nazi Relations in the Arab World

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 June 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abd al-Karim Qasim, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abu Hassan, Abwehr, active measures, Adolf Eichmann, Ahmad Husayn, Al-Alam al-Arabi, Al-Fatwa, Al-Futuwwa, Alfred Rosenberg, Ali Hassan Salameh, Alija Izetbegovic, Alija Izetbegović, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, Arab Brigade, Arab Freedom Corps, Arab Revolt, Arabs, Army of the Holy War, Axis, Azerbaijan, Ba’ath Party, Babi Yar, Balkans, battle of Tours, Benito Mussolini, Black September, Bludan, Blue Shirts, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Catholicism, Chechnya, Christianity, CIA, COMINTERN, Communism, Crimea, Endlösung, Farhud, fascism, Fascist Italy, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Final Solution, First Arab-Israeli War, Free Officers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fritz Grobba, Gamal Abdel Nasser, German-Arab Training Group, Germany, Gottlob Berger, Green Shirts, Haavara Agreement, Handschar Division, Handžar Division, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan al-Banna, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Wolff, Hitler Youth, Holocaust, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Division, Israel, Israeli War of Independence, Japan, Jews, Joseph Goebbels, KGB, Khairallah Talfah, Lebanon, Lillehammer affair, Mandate Palestine, Mein Kampf, Michel Aflaq, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Moscow Centre, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich massacre, Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg rally, Operation ATLAS, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Party of Democratic Action, Peel Commission, PLO, propaganda, racism, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Red Prince, Reiner Olzscha, Russia, Sacred Jihad Army, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Schutzstaffel, SDA, Second World War, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vatican, Völkischer Beobachter, Wafd Party, Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Stellbogen, Yasser Arafat, Young Egypt Party, Young Muslims, Zionism on June 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: ‘Civil War’ (2024)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 June 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review and tagged Alex Garland, America, Britain, Civil War, Cold War, Confederacy, Donald Trump, Florida Alliance, journalism, Kirsten Dunst, Lee Smith, narrative, New People’s Army, Nick Offerman, Parks and Recreation, political warfare, Ron Swanson, Soviet Union, Western Forces on June 2, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, agitprop, Anti-COMINTERN Pact, Antisemitism, Axis, Baltics, BBC, Blitzkrieg, Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo Conference, Cambridge spies, capitalism, Casablanca Conference, CCP, Charles Robertson, Cheka, Chekists, Chetniks, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, collaborators, collectivisation, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, CPUSA, Croats, D-Day, democracy, Draža Mihailović, espionage, FDR, Finland, Fitzroy Maclean, France, Frank Coe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgi Dimitrov, Germany, Great Fatherland War, Great Patriotic War, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Imperialism, industrialisation, Intelligence, Iron Curtain, Ivan Yeaton, James Klugmann, Japan, Joseph E. Davies, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, Katyn massacre, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Lend-Lease, Leon Trotsky, Lev Mekhlis, Loy Henderson, Magnificent Five, Mao Zedong, Maxim Litvinov, MI6, militant atheism, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, New Deal, NKVD, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation OVERLORD, Operation PIKE, Partisans, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Poland, Potsdam Conference, propaganda, PURKKA, Ray Atherton, Red Army, Richard Sorge, Robert F. Kelley, Rudolf Hess, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, Serbia, Shoah, show trials, SIS, slaves, Solomon Adler, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, Special Operations Executive, spies, Stalin’s War, Suvorov hypothesis, Suvorov thesis, Tehran Conference, totalitarianism, Truman Doctrine, Ukraine, ULTRA secret, United States, VENONA, Viktor Suvorov, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Potemkin, Vladimir Rezun, Vozhd, Vyacheslav Molotov, Walter Duranty, Warsaw Uprising, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Yalta Conference, Yezhovshchina, Yugoslavia on May 31, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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