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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, 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.

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya and Iranian Terrorism in Britain

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 March 2026

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This entry was posted in British Domestic Terrorism, Iran and tagged Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Ashab al-Kahf, Australia, Axis of Resistance, Azerbaijan, Britain, espionage, Foxtrot, Golders Green, Gulf States, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, Hatzola, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Jews, Kuwait, Mafia, organised crime, piracy, propaganda, Qatar, Resistance Axis, Saraya Awliyah al-Dam, Strait of Hormuz, Telegram, terrorism, The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, United Arab Emirates on March 24, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Mostafa Chamran and Khomeini’s Second Islamic Revolution Network in Lebanon

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu al-Qasim al-Kho’i, Abu Nidal, Algerian War, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Shariati, AMAL, Ansar-e Hizballah, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Christians, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dahiyeh, Ebrahim Yazdi, Egypt, FATAH, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Force 17, Frantz Fanon, Gamal Abdel Nasser, guerrilla warfare, Harakat al-Mahrumin, Harb al-Ikhwa, Hezbollah, hezbollahi, Hizballah, hizballahi, Ho Chi Minh, Husayn al-Musawi, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jalaleddin Farsi, Jordan, KGB, Khuzestan, komiteh-ha-ye enghelab, komitehs, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahmud Taleqani, Marine barracks bombing, marja, Marxism, Masud Rajavi, Mehdi Bazargan, MEK, Mohammad Montazeri, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Mohsen Nejat Hoseini, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Movement of the Deprived, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Mahdi Shamseddin, Nabih Berri, Naim Qassem, Najafi hawza, National Democratic Front, National Front, Organization of Iranian People's Fadaian, Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, pan-Arabism, Party of God, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, propaganda, Red China, sabotage, Sabri al-Banna, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, Sadeq Tabataba’i, SAMA, SAVAK, Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, sectarianism, Shah, Shi’is, Soviet Union, Special Organization for Unity and Action, Sunnis, terrorism, The Wretched of the Earth, Third World Strategy, Tudeh Party, United States, velayat-e faqih, Vietnam War, War of Brothers, White Revolution, Yasser Arafat on March 20, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

What is Trump Trying to Do in Iran?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Ali Khamenei, Antisemitism, Artesh, Azerbaijan, Basij, Benjamin Netanyahu, Britain, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Donald Trump, drones, Gulf States, Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, J.D. Vance, Jews, KDPI, KRG, Kurdistan Free Life Party, Kurdistan Freedom Party, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Marco Rubio, missiles, Mojtaba Khamenei, nationalism, NATO, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Operation EPIC FURY, Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER, PAK, patriotism, Pete Hegseth, PJAK, PKK, propaganda, public diplomacy, Qatar, Russia, separatism, Shahed drones, spies, Strait of Hormuz, subversion, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela on March 8, 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.

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 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.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

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

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.

Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abdul Jashari, Abdulaziz Hudaberdi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, Alawi massacres, Alawis, Alawites, Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bosnia, Brad Cooper, Caesar Act, Caesar sanctions, CENTCOM, China, David Petraus, Donald Trump, Druze, foreign fighters, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, ideology, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jewish State, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Kevin Lambert, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Lebanon, media, Palestinians, PKK, propaganda, public relations, Rabbi Yosef Hamra, Raed Fares, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repression, Salafi-jihadism, Sanctions, sectarianism, SNA, SOCOM, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taliban, terrorism, Thomas Barrack, TIP, torture, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, United Nations, United States Central Command, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban, Xinjiang, Zahid on November 13, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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