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Film Review: ‘Cover-Up’ (2025)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 May 2026

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History and tagged Abu Ghraib scandal, activism, al-Qaeda, Antonio Taguba, Ari Ben-Menashe, Arthur Schlesinger, Augusto Pinochet, Barack Obama, Bob Kerrey, Camille Lo Sapio, Central Intelligence Agency, chemical weapons of mass destruction, Chile, Church Committee, CIA, Citizenfour, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Cover-Up, Cuba, Defense Department, democracy, disinformation, Edward Korry, Edward Snowden, Ernest Medina, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, forgeries, George W. Bush, Ghouta Massacre, Ha My Massacre, Henry Kissinger, Hue Massacre, Hugh Thompson Jr., ideology, Indochina, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq War, ISI, James Angleton, James Jesus Angleton, James R. Schlesinger, John F. Kennedy, KGB, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Laura Poitras, Lawrence X. Cusack, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Marilyn papers, Mark Obenhaus, media, Michael Terry, MKULTRA, My Khe Massacre, My Lai Massacre, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Operation CHAOS, Operation ORCHARD, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Paul Meadlo, Pentagon, Phong Nhi Massacre, poison gas, press, propaganda, Richard Nixon, Rockefeller Commission, Russia, Salvador Allende, Seymour Hersh, South Korea, Soviet Union, Sy Hersh, Syria, terrorism, Thanh Phong Massacre, The Dark Side of Camelot, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vietcong, Vietnam War, war crimes, Watergate scandal, William Calley, William Colby, WMD on May 8, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State View of Al-Qaeda’s Alliance with the Tuaregs in Mali

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 May 2026

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This entry was posted in African Jihadism, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Africa Corps, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, al-Naba, Al-Naba 545, al-Qaeda, Azawad Liberation Front, Bible, deen, democracy, FLA, France, Front de libération de l’Azawad, global jihad, GRU, Hadith, ideology, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen, Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, jihadism, JNIM, Libya, Mali, military intelligence, nationalism, patriotism, Qur’an, Russia, secularism, separatism, Syria, Taliban, Tuaregs, Wagner Group on May 4, 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.

The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 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.

Islamic State Wants to Extend its War Against Christians in Africa to Europe

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Africa, Al-Andalus, al-Naba, al-wala wal-bara, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Cabo Delgado, Christianity, Christians, Crusades, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Europe, Former Mandate Palestine, France, Iberia, ideology, IEDs, ISCAP, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamists, Israel, ISWAP, Jesus, jihadism, jihadists, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, media, messaging, Mozambique, Muslim Spain, Niger, Nigeria, PKK, Portugal, propaganda, Qur’an, religion, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, shari’a, Spain, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, United States, Wilayat al-Sahel, Wilayat al-Sham, Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiya, Wilayat Mozambique, Wilayat Wasat Ifriqiya on August 14, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Dealing with the Conspiracy Theory that Islamic State “Never” Attacks Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Israel and tagged 2007 Glasgow Airport attack, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Al-Andalus, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda Central, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Andalusia, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Atiya, Atiya Abd al-Rahman, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Atiyya, Ayman Ighbariya, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bayt al-Maqdis, caliphate, Communism, democracy, disinformation, Donald Trump, Fadi Al-Qunbar, Gaza War, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamal al-Misrati, Jewish State, jihadism, jihadists, Jordan, Khaled Ighbariya, Lebanese Armed Forces, Mandate Palestine, Mecca, Medina, Mohammed Abu al-Kiyan, Moustapha Akkad, Muslim Brotherhood, Nashat Melhem, October 7 Pogrom, Omar Hadid, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Palestinian Territories, pan-Arabism, PFLP, PFLP-GC, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, propaganda, radicalism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, shari’a, Shi’a, Simchat Torah pogrom, Spain, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, Umar Hadid, Usama bin Laden, USS Ashland, USS Kearsarge, Zionism on May 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Changes Course in Dealing With the Tribes, Holds Its Ground Against Democracy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Abu Umar al-Baghdadi Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Karim al-Samarra’i, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Righal, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Accord Front, Adnan al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Janabi, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, Awakening, Ba’athism, Ba’thism, Christianity, Christians, democracy, Dhafir al-Ani, elections, Fallujah, Hamid al-Zawi, ideology, Imam Husayn, Iran, Iraq, Iraqiya, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq, jihadism, Kurds, Mahmoud al-Mashadani, Mahmud al-Mashadani, Muhammad al-Dayni, Muslim Brotherhood, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuri al-Maliki, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, Rafi al-Issawi, Sahwa, Salafism, Salam al-Zuba’i, sectarianism, Shi’a, Sunnis, Tariq al-Hashemi, Tariq al-Hashimi, Tawafuq, terrorism, tribes on April 4, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State View of Donald Trump Being Back in the White House

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 November 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Afghanistan, al-Naba, Ali Khamenei, Antisemitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Christians, Crusaders, Deal of the Century, democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Egypt, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Jordan, Khorasan, Korah, Nimrod, Pharoah, Qatar, Qur’an, Republicans, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, UAE, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vladimir Putin on November 18, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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