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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.

Islamic State Sets its Sights on Libya as a Launchpad for Terrorism Against Europe

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Jihadi Output, Libya, Naba and tagged Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abdallah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Africa, al-mustad’afun, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Amr ibn al-As, aqeeda, aqida, Barqa, Caliph Omar, Caliph Umar, Caliph Uthman, Christianity, Colonel Gaddafi, deen, Derna, dunya, Europe, fard ayn, Fath al-Islami, Fezzan, Ibn Khaldun, Ikhwan, infidels, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Conquests, Islamic State, Islamism, jahiliyya, jihadism, jizya, Libya, monotheism, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa ibn Nusayr, Muslim Brotherhood, Prophet Muhammad, Romans, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahel, sectarianism, Sirte, taghut, Tawhid, terrorism, Tripoli, Umar al-Faruq, umma, Uqba ibn Nafi, West Africa, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi on October 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The United Nations Report Accusing Israel of “Genocide” is a Joke

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 September 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged 1948 Genocide Convention, active measures, African National Congress, al-Jazeera, ANC, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, China, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Cuba, disinformation, dolus specialis, Durban II, Fidel Castro, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Gaza War, genocidal intent, genocide, GHF, hate speech, human rights groups, human shields, humanitarian NGOs, ICC, ICJ, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and Israel, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, international law, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Jewish State, jihadism, jihadists, journalism, journalists, Jugoslavija, Julius Streicher, Kurt Waldheim, Libya, media, messaging campaign, misinformation, Mohammed Sinwar, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Navanethem Pillay, Navi Pillay, Nazis, Non-Aligned Movement, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Pakistan, Palestinians, Pillay Commission, political warfare, press, propaganda, Qatar, racism, Russia, Rwanda, Rwanda Media Case, Rwandan genocide, Simchat Torah pogrom, social media, South Africa, Soviet Union, special intent, specific intent, Srebrenica Massacre, strategic messaging, terrorism, Théoneste Bagosora, TikTok, UNHRC, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, urban warfare, World Conference Against Racism, Yoav Gallant, Yugoslavia, Zionism on September 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Anas al-Sahaba, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ghraib Prison, Abu Julaybeeb, Abu Julaybib, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Filistini, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Filistini, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad Husayn al-Shara, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, Al-Aqsa Intifada, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, Ali Muhammad al-Shara, Ali Muhammad al-Sharaa, Amjad Muzafar Husayn Ali al-Nuaymi, Anas Hassan Khattab, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Arab-Afghans, Askari Mosque, atrocities, Awakening, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ba’ath, Ba’athists, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri, Bosnia, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corrective coup, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Fadel al-Hiyali, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawud, Haji Mutaz, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Husayn al-Shara, Husayn Ali al-Shara, Hussein al-Sharaa, Hussein Ali al-Sharaa, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ikhwan, information operation, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic resistance, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Quds, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, Joint Special Operations Command, Jordan, JSOC, Juhayman al-Otaybi, Juhayman al-Utaybi, Jund al-Sham, KGB, Lebanon, Maysar al-Jabouri, Maysar al-Jiburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Juburi, Mosul, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad al-Sudani, mukhabarat, muqawama, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abd al-Latif al-Saleh, Nasserism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, pan-Arabism, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, radicalism, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sabereen, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahwa, Salafism, Saleh al-Hamawi, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, Second Intifada, secret police, Sednaya, September 11 attacks, Shah, shari’a, Shi’a militias, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Surge, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taji Prison, terrorism, The Army of Jerusalem, United Arab Republic, Wahhabism, Zarqawists on May 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Bashar al-Assad Falls

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Albania, Aleppo, Alois Brunner, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechens, Chechnya, chemical weapons, China, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, FSA, Ghouta, GULAG, Hama massacre, Hama rules, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Imam Bukhari Jamaat, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, KTJ, Lebanon, Libya, Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazism, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, pan-Arabism, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Quds Force, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafi-jihadism, Shi’a jihadists, Siege of Hama, Syria, Taliban, TIP, totalitarianism, Tunisia, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Xhemati Alban on December 9, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged African National Congress, ANC, Angola, assassination, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corruption, crime, Cuba, Cyril Ramaphosa, East Germany, Horst Kleinschmidt, ideology, Intelligence, KGB, Libya, MK, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, murder, Nelson Mandela, racism, SACP, secret police, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Third World Strategy, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, Umkhonto we Sizwe on September 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged 9/11 Commission, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdallah Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Khayr, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Faraj al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Khalid al-Suri, Abu Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ubayda al-Panjshiri, Abu Yasser al-Masri, Abud al-Zumar, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Mabruk, Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Al-Azhar, al-Maktab al-Khidamat, al-Masada al-Ansar, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda al-Askariyya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, Ali Amin al-Rashidi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, AQAP, AQI, AQIM, AQM, Arab League, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Arab-Afghans, Atiyya, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Azza Ahmed Nuwair, Benghazi, Bosnia, Chechnya, Christopher Stevens, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Dr. Fadl, East African Embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Encep Nurjaman, faith campaign, Faruq al-Suri, Faruq Hijazi, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hambali, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Houthis, Huthis, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Group, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Jamal Abd al-Nasr, Jamal al-Misrati, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khaled al-Islambuli, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kofi Annan, Lion’s Den of Supporters, Mali, Marxism, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad al-Bahaya, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atef, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, nationalism, Nazism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, PLO, Rabia al-Zawahiri, Riduan Isamuddin, Rifai Taha, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saeed al-Masri, Sahwa, Saif al-Adl, Samir Hijazi, Saudi Arabia, Sayd al-Adl, Sayf al-Adel, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Services Bureau, Shah, Six-Day War, Somalia, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, Sudan, Surge, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Tamim al-Adnani, terrorism, The Blind Shaykh, U.S.S. Cole, Umar Abdurrahman, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, World Trade Centre bombing, Yasin al-Suri, Yemen on July 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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