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The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ACLU, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander Palmer, American Civil Liberties Union, American Protective League, anarchism, Anarchist Exclusion Act, anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Ariete Group, Arthur McElfresh, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Battle of the Somme, Ben Cassagranda, Bernard Eubanks, Bert Bland, Black Hand gang, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Britt Smith, Brusilov Offensive, Bureau of Investigation, Carlo Valdinoci, Centralia Massacre, civil rights, CLPA, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party of the United States of America, CPUSA, D.W. Griffith, Dale Hubbard, Emma Goldman, espionage, Espionage Act, Eugene Barnett, Eugene Debs, Eugene Pfister, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Red Scare, First World War, Galleanisti, Germany, Great Migration, Haymarket affair, Henry Clay Frick, Homestead strike, Immigration Act, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian anarchists, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, James McInerney, Jews, Jim Crow, John Lamb, John Watt, Joseph McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, labour strikes, Leon Czolgosz, Loren Roberts, Lost Cause, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Luigi Galleani, MANHATTAN Project, Mario Buda, McCarthyism, Mike Sheehan, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nestor Makhno, Nicola Sacco, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, O.C. Bland, Palmer Raids, Peter Bianki, pogroms, political warfare, Protestantism, racialism, racism, radicals, Ray Becker, reconstruction, Red Arc, Red Scare, Red Terror, Robert Minor, Russia, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sedition Act, segregation, Selective Service Act, Socialist Party of America, SPA, spies, terrorism, The Birth of a Nation, Union of Russian Workers, Volunteer Army, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wall Street bombing, Warren Grimm, What is to Be Done?, William McKinley, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson on August 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged 9/11 Commission, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdallah Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Khayr, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Faraj al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Khalid al-Suri, Abu Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ubayda al-Panjshiri, Abu Yasser al-Masri, Abud al-Zumar, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Mabruk, Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Al-Azhar, al-Maktab al-Khidamat, al-Masada al-Ansar, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda al-Askariyya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, Ali Amin al-Rashidi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, AQAP, AQI, AQIM, AQM, Arab League, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Arab-Afghans, Atiyya, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Azza Ahmed Nuwair, Benghazi, Bosnia, Chechnya, Christopher Stevens, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Dr. Fadl, East African Embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Encep Nurjaman, faith campaign, Faruq al-Suri, Faruq Hijazi, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hambali, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Houthis, Huthis, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Group, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Jamal Abd al-Nasr, Jamal al-Misrati, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khaled al-Islambuli, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kofi Annan, Lion’s Den of Supporters, Mali, Marxism, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad al-Bahaya, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atef, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, nationalism, Nazism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, PLO, Rabia al-Zawahiri, Riduan Isamuddin, Rifai Taha, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saeed al-Masri, Sahwa, Saif al-Adl, Samir Hijazi, Saudi Arabia, Sayd al-Adl, Sayf al-Adel, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Services Bureau, Shah, Six-Day War, Somalia, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, Sudan, Surge, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Tamim al-Adnani, terrorism, The Blind Shaykh, U.S.S. Cole, Umar Abdurrahman, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, World Trade Centre bombing, Yasin al-Suri, Yemen on July 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Capture of Australia’s Intelligence System

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ABC, Aldrich Ames, ASIO, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, China, Christopher Boyce, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Cook Report, counter-intelligence, Croatian Six, Directorate K, Donald Maclean, espionage, false flag, FCD, First Chief Directorate, Five Eyes, Four Corners, George Sadil, Gerontiy Lazovik, Gough Whitlam, GRU, Guy Burgess, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian George Peacock, Intelligence, John Kerr, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Labor, Lionel Murphy, Magnificent Five, Main Adversary, MI6, MIRA, mole, Moscow Centre, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Kalugin, Pine Gap, Robert Hanssen, Russian Orthodox Church, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Speech, SIS, Socialist Commonwealth, SOE, Soviet military intelligence, Soviet Union, Special Operations Executive, spies, spy, SVR, Tasmania, Terror, traitors, treason, Unmasking the Australian Spy Who Sold Secrets to Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin, VENONA, Yuri Andropov, Yuri Shmatkov on June 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Seidl, Andrey Vyshinsky, Aron Trainin, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan crisis, Baltics, Ben Ferencz, Bessarabia, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Boris Bazilevsky, Britain, Burdenko Report, Claus von Stauffenberg, colonialism, Communism, concentration camps, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Czechoslovakia, espionage, Estonia, Eugen Oberhauser, Europe, Finland, France, Francine Hirsch, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Ahrens, Friedrich Gaus, General Melchett, Geoffrey Lawrence, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Liddell, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Hermann Göring, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hjalmar Schacht, House of Commons, IADL, ICC, ICRC, IMT, Intelligence, intelligentsia, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Criminal Court, International Katyn Commission, international law, International Military Tribunal, Iona Nikitchenko, Iran, Iron Curtain, Jews, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, justice, Katyn massacre, Kharkov Trial, Korean War, Krasnodar Trial, Latvia, Leonid Raikhman, Lev Smirnov, Lithuania, Lubyanka, Marko Markov, MI5, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazis, Nazism, Nikolai Zorya, Nikolay Burdenko, NKVD, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Otto Stahmer, Poland, Red Army, Reinhard von Eichborn, Roman Rudenko, Rudolf Hess, Russia, Second World War, secret police, Secret Protocols, Sergei Kolesnikov, show trial, SMERSH, Solomon Lozovsky, Soviet Union, spies, Tatiana Stupnikova, Telford Taylor, Thomas Dodd, totalitarianism, Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, United Nations, USSR, victor’s justice, Viktor Prozorovsky, war crimes, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yezhovshchina on April 11, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Ideology of Nazism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged abortion, Adolf Hitler, Ahnenerbe, Alfred Rosenberg, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, apartheid, apocalyptic, Aristotle, Arthur de Gobineau, Aryans, Atlantis, Aufbau Vereinigung, Augustus, Beer Hall Putsch, Benito Mussolini. Fascism, Bible, biology, Bolshevism, Caesar, Charlemagne, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Classical world, Communism, Darwinism, Enlightenment, eugenics, Ezra Pound, Final Solution, First World War, Frederick the Great, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, genocide, Germany, Great War, Greco-Roman History, Heinrich Himmler, Holocaust, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Indo-Germans, Jews, Judeo-Bolshevism, Karl Georg Zschaetzsch, Karl Marx, lebensraum, Leonidas, Lothrop Stoddard, Madison Grant, March on Rome, Marxism, Mein Kampf, messianic, messianism, militarism, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, Nazis, Nazism, Nordic, Octavian, Operation BARBAROSSA, paganism, pagans, Peter the Great, philosophy, Plato, racism, radicalisation, rationalism, Reconstruction Organisation, Richard Wagner, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Romans, Rudolf Hess, Saint Paul, Saul of Tarsus, Science, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, Sparta, Tanakh, The Myth of the Twentieth Century, The Passing of the Great Race, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, Thermopylae, Thule Society, Tibet, totalitarianism, Völkisch movement, Vernichtungskrieg, Vladimir Lenin on April 7, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, alcoholism, Anglican Church, Anglo-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Arnold Deutsch, Arnold Goodman, Bolshevik Revolution, Britain, Cambridge spies, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Christianity, Church of England, CIA, Clement Attlee, CND, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, compromising material, counter-intelligence, CPGB, Donald Maclean, Ena Binfield, espionage, fascism, Francisco Franco, General Franco, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background, Harold Wilson, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, homosexuality, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian Mikardo, Intelligence, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, John Macnamara, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, kompromat, Korean War, Labour Party, Leon Trotsky, LEPAGE, Lord Beaverbrook, Mafia, Magnificent Five, MÄDCHEN, MI5, MI6, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Centre, NATO, Nazi Germany, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, Operation BARBAROSSA, organised crime, peace movement, Profumo affair, progressive, progressivism, purges, Raymond Fletcher, Reginald Kray, Robert Boothby, Ronald Kray, Ruling Passions, Second Vatican Council, Security Service, SIS, socialism, Soviet Illegals, Soviet invasion of Hungary, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spy, StB, SYNOK, The Daily Express, The Daily Worker, The Tribune Group, Tom Driberg, United States, Vatican, Vietnam War, Winston Churchill, World Peace Council, Yezhovshchina on March 26, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Prevent Review: What Went Wrong in British Counter-Extremism Policy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 March 2023

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This entry was posted in British Domestic Terrorism, Islamic Militancy and tagged Aafia Siddiqui, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Ala al-Mawdudi, Ahmadis, Ahmadiyya, Ahmed Hassan, Al-Hurraya, Al-Manaar, al-Qaeda, Albigensians, anarchism, ANTIFA, apostasy, As-Shifa mosque, Asad Fazil, Asad Shah, Behavioural Insights Team, blasphemy, Brexit, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Cathars, Channel, civil society organisations, Communism, conservatism, CONTEST, counter-extremism, counter-terrorism, David Duke, deceptive compliance, deradicalisation, Donald Trump, eco-terrorism, extreme Left, extreme Right-wing, far-Left, far-Right, Fishmongers’ Hall attack, foreign fighters, free speech, HAMAS, hate crimes, heresy, Hezbollah, Hizballah, ideology, IHRC, Imam Online, incels, Independent Review of Prevent, India, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Irfan Chishti, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Ismail Haniyeh, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jalal Uddin, Jews, jihadism, Joe Rogan, Karimia Institute, Kashmir, Khalistan, Khalistanis, Khatme Nubuwwat movement, Ku Klux Klan, liberalism, London Bridge attack, MCB, Me and You Education, MEND, mental health, Musharraf Hussein, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, Muslim Engagement and Development, Muzaffar Shah Qadri, narwhal tusk, Nazism, NIIP, non-violent extremism, Nottingham Islam Information Point, online radicalisation, optimism bias, Pakistan, Palestinians, politicisation, PREVENT, Prophet Muhammad, radicalisation, rehabilitation, RICU, safeguarding, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Shakeel Begg, Shaker Aamer, shari’a, Sikh, Sudesh Amman, Taliban, terrorism, The Beatles, United Kingdom, Usman Khan, violent extremism, vulnerability, white supremacism, William Shawcross, YouTube, Yvonne Ridley on March 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, Anton Drexler, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Somme, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Bela Kun, Bolsheviks, Britain, Brownshirts, Brusilov Offensive, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of Germany, DAP, democracy, Die Frauenkirche, Dietrich Eckart, Dolchstoßlegende, Easter Rising, Erich Ludendorff, Ernst Röhm, espionage, Eugen Leviné, Eugenio Pacelli, far-Right, Ferdinand Foch, First World War, Foxl, France, Franconia, Freikorps, French Revolution, Friedrich Ebert, Georg von Schönerer, German Workers’ Party, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Great Depression, Great War, Habsburgs, Hans Frank, Hermann Esser, Hermann Göring, Hugo Gutmann, Hungary, hyperinflation, Ignatius of Loyola, Ireland, Jesuits, Jews, Joseph Caillaux, Julius Streicher, Kaiser, Kapp Putsch, Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, Karl Harrer, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Lueger, Karl Mayr, KPD, League of Nations, Lusitania, Lutheranism, March Action, March Revolution, Marxism, Max Levien, Mein Kampf, Mexico, Munich Cathedral, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, nationalism, Nazi Party, Nazism, NSDAP, October Revolution, paganism, pagans, Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XII, Protestantism, Räterepublik, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Roman Catholic Church, Roman salute, Romanovs, Romans, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hess, Ruhr crisis, Russia, Russian Revolution, SA, Sir Roger Casement, Slovakia, Social Democratic Party, Society of Jesus, Soviet Union, Spartacist uprising, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, swastika, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Alfred Rosenberg, Thule Society, Tobias Akselrod, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Versailles, Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau, United States, Völkisch movement, Vladimir Lenin, Wall Street crash, Walther von Lüttwitz, Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Frick, William P. Frye, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Kapp, Woodrow Wilson, Zimmermann Telegram on March 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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