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Film Review: ‘Cover-Up’ (2025)

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 May 2026

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

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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.

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 5-HTTLPR, academia, active measures, activism, Adolf Hitler, Allies, Alzheimer’s disease, ANCA, Andonian Documents, Ani Kalayjian, Antisemitism, antizionism, ARA, Aram Andonian, archives, ARF, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenians, Arnold Toynbee, ASALA, Beirut, Bernard Lewis, Bosnia, Bosporus, Britain, Cambodia, Caucasus Campaign, clairvoyance, Cold War, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, counter-insurgency, CUP, Dardanelles, Dashnaks, deportation, diaspora, Donald Bloxham, E. K. Sarkissian, East Timor, Entente, Esat Uras, Fascifists, fedayeen, First Armenian Republic, First World War, genetics, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Green, George Orwell, Gerard Libaridian, Germany, Guatemala, Guenter Lewy, guerrillas, Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry Morgenthau, Herero and Namaqua, historians, historiography, History, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust deniers, Holodomor, IAGS, ideological capture, ideology, Indonesia, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Islamic Revolution, Israel Charny, JCAG, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Korean War, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, lobby organisations, medicine, Michael M. Gunter, missionaries, Moscow Centre, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Naim Bey, Naim-Andonian Documents, Narodniks, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, negationism, nerkaght, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, Ottoman Empire, pacifism, pacifists, Palestine Liberation Organisation, parapsychology, Paul Rassinier, Peter Balakian, PKK, PLO, political warfare, precognition, propaganda, psi, psychiatry, psychokinesis, psychology, R. G. Sahakian, Raphael Lemkin, relocation, replication crisis, Richard G. Hovannisian, Richard Hovannisian, Robert Melson, Roger W. Smith, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Science, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, secularism, Shoah, Simon Vratsian, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stanford J. Shaw, Stanford Shaw, Sublime Porte, Talat Pasha, Taner Akçam, telepathy, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Blue Book, The Great Repatriation, The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, theology, transgenderism, Turkey, Turkish Straits, Ukraine, United States, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahakn N. Dadrian, Young Turks, Yves Ternon, Zionism, Zoryan Institute on April 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: 1860s to 1915

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 1856 Paris Treaty, 1871 London Declaration, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Abraham Hartunian, Aleksandr Adamov, Aleksandr Olferiev, Alexander A. Adamov, Alexander Khatisian, Alexander Khatissian, Allied Landing at Gallipoli, Andranik, Andranik Ozanian, ARA, Aram Manukian, Aram Turabian, ARF, Armen Garo, Armenakan Party, Armenian genocide, Armenian Narodniks, Armenian national movement, Armenian Patriarchate, Armenian Provinces, Armenian Question, Armenian Republic, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian revolutionary movement, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian volunteers, Armenians, Arshak Gavafian, ASALA, Balkan Wars, Battle of Sarikamish, Bedros Kapamajian, Bitlis uprising, Boghos Nubar, Bolshevik coup, Britain, Caliph, caliphate, Capitulations, Captain Molyneux-Seel, Caucasus Campaign, Cemal Pasha, Christendom, Christians, Civil War, Clarence Ussher, Commander Vartan, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Congress of Berlin, Constantinople, Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, counter-insurgency, Crimean War, CUP, Cyrus Hamlin, Dardanelles Strait, Dashnaks, Defence of Van, Djemal Pasha, Drastamat Kanayan, dreadnought, Dro, Enlightenment, Enver Pasha, Erzurum, fedayi, First World War, France, French Revolution, Friedrich Posselt, Gallipoli Campaign, Garegin Nzhdeh, Garegin Pastermadjian, General Andranik, Germany, Great Eastern Crisis, Great War, Greek War of Independence, Grigor Avsharian, Grigory Chernozubov, guerrilla warfare, guerrillas, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutyun, Henry Morgenthau, Herbert Henry Asquith, Holocaust, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Hrayr Dzhoghk, Hunchaks, Hungarian uprising, Ian M. Smith, ideology, Imperial Russia, IMRO, insurgency, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Iran, Islam, JCAG, jihad, jizya, Joseph Pomiankowski, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kapriel Papazian, Kapriel S. Papazian, Keri, Kevork Chavush, Khoren Ashekian, Kurdish tribes, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism, Marxism, Mekertich Portukalian, Mikael Seryan, Mikayel Papadjanian, Mikayel Varandian, Moushegh Seropian, Muhacir, Mullah Selim, Muslims, Narodniki, national liberation movement, nationalism, Nikolai Hartwig, Nikolai Yudenich, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ottoman Armenia, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Third Army, Pandukht, Persia, politics, Posselt Pascha, propaganda, Protestant, provocation strategy, Pyotr Kalitin, Rafael de Nogales, Ramgavar Party, Robert W. Graves, Roman Catholics, Russia, Sargis Mehrabyan, Sasun rebellion, sectarianism, Selim Efendi al-Hizani, Serbia, Sergey Sazonov, Sir Philip Currie, Six Provinces, Six Vilayets, Social Democratic Hunchakian Party, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Special Organisation, Stanley E. Kerr, strategy of provocation, Sublime Porte, Sultan, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Tehcir Law, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, Treaty of Berlin, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Turkey, Turkish Armenia, United States, Van rebellion, Wilhelm Souchon, Winston Churchill, Yeniköy Treaty, Young Turk Revolution, Young Turks, Zeytun rebellion on March 31, 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.

“Damned Lies and Statistics”, Al-Qaeda Edition

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged 9/11, 9/11 Commission Report, Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Australia, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, caliphate, Global War on Terror, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, ideology, Intelligence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting, Osama bin Laden, September 11, September 11 attacks, Somalia, strategy, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, Yemen on February 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Hassan, al-Qaeda, Albania, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Hassan Salameh, Ali Reza Sepasi, Amal movement, Anis Naccache, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Anthony Parsons, anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, antizionism, Anwar al-Sadat, Artesh, Asadollah Alam, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Ayatollah Muhammad Beheshti, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, Communism, Cuba, DDR, Dhofar Liberation Front, Dhofar Rebellion, disinformation, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Enver Hoxha, espionage, FATAH, Fedayeen-e-Khalq, Fidel Castro, Force 17, Gaza War, German Democratic Republic, Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, Green Book, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosayn Ruhani, Hossein Ruhani, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, ideology, Imad Mughniyeh, Imperial Government, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Italian Red Brigades, Jalaleddin Farsi, Japanese Red Army, Jews, Jordan, KGB, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mao Zedong, Marine barracks bombing, Marxism, Marxist Mojahedeen, Marxist Mujahideen, MEK, MJTRUST/2, Mohammad Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Moscow gold, MOSSAD, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Munich massacre, Musa al-Sadr, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Oman, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, Pasdaran, Pasdaran-e Enghelab, Peykar, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, radicalism, Red China, Red Mullah, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SAVAK, Sazman-e Peykar dar Rah-e Azadi-ye Tabaqe-ye Kargar, Sepah-e Pasdaran, Shah, Shi’a Islam, Shi’ism, Siahkal incident, socialism, South Yemen, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, The Organisation of Combat for the Emancipation of the Working Class, The Organisation of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, totalitarianism, Tudeh Party, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, veleyat-e-faqih, Vladimir Lenin, White Revolution, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on January 19, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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