Tag Archives: Marxism

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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The Cold War Roots of the Media Fiasco Over Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 October 2023

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“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023

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

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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Russian Terrorist-Revolutionaries: Ideology and Worldview

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 May 2023

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The Ideology of Nazism

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 April 2023

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Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

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Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022

The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:

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“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading