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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.

What the Captured Documents in Gaza Tell Us About HAMAS’s Relationship with the “Humanitarian” NGOs

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Israel and tagged Abu Islam, academics, al-Qaeda, Al-Qassam Brigades, Alaa Hassan Abdullah Asbihi, Alger Hiss, Antisemitism, antizionism, Ayman Rouqa, Branch of Foreign Associations, Britain, charity, Christianity, Conny Lenneberg, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, Division of Foreign Activity, Doctors Without Borders, espionage, Ethel Rosenberg, Fadi al-Wadiya, Fadi Jihad Mohammed al-Wadiya, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, Gaza European Hospital, Gaza War, Guantanamo Bay, HAMAS, human rights activists, humanitarian NGOs, IDF, Intelligence, international law, interrogation, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Islamists, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israel Security Agency, jihadism, jihadists, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, Kamal al-Adwan Hospital, Kataib Izzadeen al-Qassam, KGB, Khalil El-Halabi, Kim Philby, liberalism, MAAN Development Centre, Médecins Sans Frontières, media, Mohammad el-Halabi, Mohammed Akram Abdullah al-Kafarna, Mohammed Khalil Mehdi, Mohammed Khalil Mohammed el-Halabi, MSF, Muslim Brotherhood, NGOs, non-governmental organisations, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Nursing Association, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, PIJ, political prisoners, political warfare, press, provocation, Rafah Brigade, Samir Suleiman Abu Shawish, SHABAK, Shin Bet, Simchat Torah pogrom, Soviet Union, spies, Spy War, terrorism, terrorists, Tim Costello, torture, UNDP, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, VENONA, World Vision, World Vision Gaza, World Vision International, Yabna Battalion, Zionism, Zionists on February 25, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Al-Naba Editorial on the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Australia, Belgium, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Edgar Torres-Tovar, Gaza War, global terrorism, HAMAS, ideology, Intelligence, Internet, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, munafiqun, mushrikun, Muslims, nationalism, Naveed Akram, Palestine, Palmyra, populism, Sajid Akram, Sydney, Syria, Tadmur, terrorism, United States, William Howard, William Nathaniel Howard on December 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Can America’s Strikes on Islamic State in Nigeria Lead to a Serious Policy?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Africa, AFRICOM, Borno State, Cameroon, Christianity, France, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, jihadism, Nigeria, Russia, sectarianism, terrorism, West Africa on December 26, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Islamic State Sets its Sights on Libya as a Launchpad for Terrorism Against Europe

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Jihadi Output, Libya, Naba and tagged Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abdallah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Africa, al-mustad’afun, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Amr ibn al-As, aqeeda, aqida, Barqa, Caliph Omar, Caliph Umar, Caliph Uthman, Christianity, Colonel Gaddafi, deen, Derna, dunya, Europe, fard ayn, Fath al-Islami, Fezzan, Ibn Khaldun, Ikhwan, infidels, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Conquests, Islamic State, Islamism, jahiliyya, jihadism, jizya, Libya, monotheism, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa ibn Nusayr, Muslim Brotherhood, Prophet Muhammad, Romans, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahel, sectarianism, Sirte, taghut, Tawhid, terrorism, Tripoli, Umar al-Faruq, umma, Uqba ibn Nafi, West Africa, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi on October 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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