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How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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.

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.

Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

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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.

Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alien Registration Act, Andrew Goodman, Baptists, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Davis, Black Panthers, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Christianity, Christians, civil rights, Clarence Jones, COINTELPRO, Communism, Communist Party, Counterintelligence Program, CPUSA, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene Dennis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francis Xavier Waldron, George Wallace, Great Migration, Great Terror, Gus Hall, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, informants, Intelligence, Internal Security Act, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Childs, Jack O’Dell, James Chaney, Jesse Jackson, Jewish-Americans, Jews, JFK, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, John Seigenthaler, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KKK, Korean War, Ku Klux Klan, LBJ, Left-wing extremism, Lyndon B. Johnson, MANHATTAN Project, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Marxists, Michael Schwerner, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New Left, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Nobel Peace Prize, Operation BARBAROSSA, peace movement, Poverty Program, racialism, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Ross Barnett, SCLC, Second World War, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Levison, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Subversive Activities Control Act, surveillance, urban guerrillas, Vietnam War, Viola Liuzzo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Weather Underground, William C. Sullivan, Yezhovshchina on November 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

No Honest Person Should Be Using The HAMAS Casualty Figures For Gaza

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ahli Hospital, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Amnesty International, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Bosnia, Christianity, Communism, disinformation, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, Government Media Office, HAMAS, Houthis, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IDF, Intelligence, International Court of Justice, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Jews, jihadism, Joe Biden, Lebanon, Marxism, media, MEK, misinformation, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, MOSSAD, Nazis, Nazism, NGOs, OCHA, October 7 Pogrom, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PLO, provokatsiya, racism, Ruhollah Khomeini, SAVAK, Shah, Simchat Torah pogrom, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Syria, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Telegram, The Lancet, totalitarianism, United Nations, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Wikipedia, Yemen, Zionism on October 15, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1848 Revolutions, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Serno-Solovyevich, anarchism, Arthur Koestler, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Communism, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrists, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, Enlightenment, equality, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Plekhanov, ideology, Ivan Turgenev, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Karl Marx, Kolokol, Leo Tolstoy, liberalism, literature, Marxism, materialism, Men of the Forties, Men of the Sixties, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, mir, Muslim Brotherhood, Narodism, Narodists, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nazis, Nazism, New Man, Nicholas I, Nihilism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Nikolai Speshnev, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Ossip Komissarov, Pavel Pestel, Peter the Great, populism, Pyotr I, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, revolution, Russia, Russian Idea, Russian intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb, Science, secret police, Sergey Uvarov, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sovremennik, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Third Section, Tibor Szamuely, Tsar, utilitarianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vissarion Belinsky, Vladimir Lenin, What is to Be Done?, Zemlya i Volya on September 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Ana Belen Montes, Axis, Bay of Piglets, Bill Clinton, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, CCP, Chavista, Chile, Chilean coup, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, colonialism, Commandante, Communism, Communist Cuba, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Defense Intelligence Agency, DGI, DI, DIA, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, espionage, Evo Morales, FBI, Fidel Castro, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Services Institute, General Intelligence Directorate, INR, Intelligence, Intelligence Directorate, Iran, Israel, James Olson, Justice Department, Kendall Myers, KGB, La Red Avispa, Marta Rita Velasquez, Marxism, NSC, Peronism, Raul Castro, Red China, Rolando Cubela Secades, Russia, Salvador Allende, South Vietnam, SOUTHCOM, Soviet Union, spies, State Department, The WASP Network, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Security Council, United States, United States Southern Command, USAID, Victor Manuel Rocha on March 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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