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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.

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.

Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Admiral Horthy, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Allendists, Amnesty International, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arrow Cross, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Baader-Meinhof Group, Benito Mussolini, Bertrand Russell, BND, Boris Pavlovich Fetisov, Cambodia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chile, Chilean coup, CIA, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, DDR, dezinformatsiya, DINA, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, disinformation, East Germany, Ecuador, El Tata, Enrique Pschold Reschenback, Escucha Chile, Eugenio Pacelli, fascism, Fascist Italy, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, forgeries, Fourth Reich, FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FRG, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Gran Sasso raid, Helsinki Final Act, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust, human rights groups, Hungary, Importadora Goldmann, Intelligence, International League Against Racism and Antisemitism, Iranian Revolution, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Israel, Izvestia, Jews, Juan Perón, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Kommunist, Latin America, Le Monde, LICRA, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Contreras, Marxism-Leninism, media, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Horthy, MOSSAD, Mozambique, Mozambique Liberation Front, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, New York Times, Nicaragua, Novosti, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, NYKP, Operation DENVER, Operation GLADIO, Operation PANZERFAUST, Operation TOUCAN, Orlando Letelier, Otto Skorzeny, Philippe Sands, political warfare, Pope Pius XII, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Revolution, Pravda, propaganda, Radio Moscow, Red Army, Rhodesia, Ronen Bergman, Rose Styron, Russell Tribunal, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, secret police, Simon Wiesenthal, socialism, South America, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Third World Campaign, Soviet Union, SS, Syria, TASS, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, Third Reich, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vietnam War, Walther Rauff, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, West Germany on October 4, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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