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Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, 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, 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, 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.

Fourth Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashimi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Africa, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Abbas ibn Ubada, al-adhnab, Al-Hol, al-hukm, Al-Jannah, al-Manara al-Bayda, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Alawis, Antisemitism, Arab conquests, Australia, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christians, Commander of the Faithful, Crusaders, deen, Europe, foreign fighters, Gaza, ghuraba, golden calf, Hadith, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, hijra, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, infidels, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Israelites, jahiliyya, Jews, jihad, jihadism, khawarij, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Kutub al-Sittah, malhama, Mali, Millat Ibrahim, muraghamah, Musa ibn Nusayr, muwahideen, Niger, Nigeria, Nusayris, Operation Deterring Aggression, Paradise, PKK, Puntland, Qur’an, Rafida, ribat, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahl ibn Sa’d al-Sa’idi, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SDF, sectarianism, secularism, shirk, Somalia, Sunan al-Nasa’i, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tariq Ibn Ziyad, tawaghit, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, United States, Uqba ibn Nafi, White Minaret on March 23, 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.

Trump and Venezuela: Is This “Regime Change”?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged Ansar Allah, Bay of Piglets, Canada, Cartel de Los Soles, Cartel of the Suns, cartels, Central Intelligence Agency, Chavismo, Chavistas, China, CIA, cocaine, Cold War, colonialism, Communism, corruption, cryptocurrency, Cuba, Cubazuela, Delcy Rodríguez, despotism, DGI, DI, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, Donald Trump, drug wars, drugs, Edmundo González, espionage, FARC, fentanyl, Foreign Terrorist Organisations, Fox News, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Greenland, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Honduras, Houthis, Hugo Chavez, Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, J.D. Vance, Jack Keane, John Bolton, Juan Orlando Hernández, Kim Jong-il, Manuel Noriega, María Corina Machado, Marco Rubio, Marxism, narco-terrorism, narcotics, NATO, Nicolas Maduro, Nicolas Maduro Moros, Nobel Peace Prize, oil, Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE, Operation GIDEON, Panama, Proconsul, propaganda, public diplomacy, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SEBIN, secret police, Sinaloa Cartel, socialism, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, spies, Syria, TdA, terrorism, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Rocha, Vladimir Putin, War on Terror, weapons of mass destructions, WMD, Xi Jinping, Yemen on January 6, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahl al-Kitab, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Abdi Ali, al-Bab, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, apostates, atrocities, Badiya, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Boko Haram, Borno State, Burkina Faso, Burning of the Camps Campaign, Cabo Delgado, Cameroon, Christianity, Christians, da’wa, deen, Deir Ezzor, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Donald Trump, Egypt, Europe, Gaza War, General Qalyare, Ghouta, Ghouta chemical attack, global jihad, GRU, hajj, HAMAS, Hasaka, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, hijra, HTS, Iblis, ideology, IEDs, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam, Jews, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jizya, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, massacres, missionaries, Mozambique, munafiqun, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Operation Burning of the Camps, Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Palestine, Palestinians, People of the Book, Persians, PKK, pogroms, proselytism, Puntland, Rafida, Rafidites, Raqqa, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, Shi’a, Shi’is, Somalia, Syria, Syrian Badiya, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tabuk expedition, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Wagner, war crimes, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, Zionism, Zionists on October 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

HAMAS Planned for the Massacre, Torture, and Hostage-Taking on October 7 More Than a Year in Advance

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Al-Aqsa Flood, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Jazeera, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, atrocities, Benjamin Netanyahu, Children of Israel, disinformation, Esmail Qaani, Gaza, Gaza War, Gilad Shalit, HAMAS, Hashd al-Shabi, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, hostages, Houthis, IDF, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Israel Defence Force, Jewish State, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Judeocide, Lebanon, media, Mohammad Said Izadi, Muhammad Sinwar, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Operation AL-AQSA FLOOD, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, propaganda, Qods Force, Quds Force, rape as a weapon of war, Saleh al-Aruri, Shoah, Simchat Torah pogrom, Syria, umma, Unit 8200, United Nations, war crimes, Yahya Sinwar, Yemen on October 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Israel’s War With its Enemies Has Only Ever Been About the October 7 Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Adi Vital-Kaploun, Agam Goldstein-Almog, Al-Aqsa Flood, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Arabs, Arbel Siman Tov, Ariel Bibas, Aviv Kutz, Avlum Mils, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Batia Holin, Bibas family, Carol Siman Tov, crimes against humanity, Daniel Peretz, Daniel Perez, disinformation, Erick Peretz, Gaza, genocide, Gil Taasa, Hadar Berdichesky, HAMAS, Hassan Nasrallah, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, Holocaust-deniers, hostages, Houthis, IDF, information war, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli hostages, Itay Berdichesky, Itay Chen, Jews, jihadism, Johnny Siman Tov, Kfir Bibas, Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Kissufim, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Kibbutz Nir Oz, Kibbutz Re’im, Koren Taasa, Lebanon, Liel Hatzroni, Liraz Assulin, Livnat Kutz, Maayan Idan, Mahmoud Afana, Matan Angrest, media, Mila Cohen, Naama Levy, Nazis, Netiv Ha’asara, Nova Music Festival, Nukhba unit, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Ohad Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Siman Tov, Operation AL-AQSA FLOOD, Or Taasa, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, propaganda, racism, Rami Shmuel, rape as a weapon of war, Raz Cohen, Ron Freger, Ronen Engel, Rotem Kutz, Russia, Ruth Peretz, Sandra Cohen, sectarianism, sexual violence, Shahar Siman Tov, Shani Louk, Shay Taasa, Shi’a militias, Shiri Bibas, Shlomo Mansour, Syria, Tali Biner, Tamar Kedem Siman Tov, terrorism, Tomer Leibovich, torture, Tsachi Idan, Twelve-Day War, United Nations, war crimes, Yahya Sinwar, Yarden Bibas, Yemen, Yiftach Kutz, Yona Cohen, Yonatan Kutz, Yonatan Siman Tov, Yoni Saadon, ZAKA, ZAKA Search and Rescue on October 7, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The New York Times and Gaza: Omissions, Mistakes, and Inadequate Corrections

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Israel and tagged African National Congress, Ahli Hospital, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, Anadolu Agency, ANC, Angkar, Antisemitism, Augusto Pinochet, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bible, Bosnia, Bosnian War, Cambodia, Chile, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, disinformation, Eytan Gilboa, Fidel Castro, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, genocide, Gray Lady, HAMAS, Holocaust, Holodomor, ICC, ICJ, ideology, IDF, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Jews, Khmer Rouge, Lilac Sigan, mainstream media, Mariupol, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, Muhammad al-Matouq, Muhammad al-Mutawaq, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, Nazis, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omar al-Bashir, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, propaganda, rape as a weapon of war, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Red China, Russia, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide, Salvador Allende, Simchat Torah pogrom, Soliman Hijjy, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, The New York Times, Turkey, Ukraine, Umar al-Bashir, United Nations, Vladimir Putin, Yemen, Yoav Gallant, Yousef Masoud on August 1, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Has Alternative Suggestions for the Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah. It’s Jihad.

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abraham, al-Bayt al-Ateeq, al-Bayt al-Atiq, al-Bayt al-Haram, Al-Bukhari, al-Masjid al-Aqsa, al-Masjid al-Haram, al-Naba, Arab Empire, Bakka, Bayt al-Maqdis, caliphate, Dhul Hijjah, Eid al-Adha, hajj, House of God, Inviolable House, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jerusalem, jihad, jihadism, John Wansbrough, Kaaba, ka’ba, Mecca, Millay Ibrahim, mujahideen, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, Sacred House, Saudi Arabia, shari’a, Sunna, Sunnah, Syria, taqwa, tawaf, Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah, terrorism, Yawm al-Arafah on June 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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