By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 August 2025
The New York Times and Gaza: Omissions, Mistakes, and Inadequate Corrections
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Tag Archives: Red China
The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War
Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat
The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”
America Sold Out Taiwan Before Conceding to Red China
Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War
A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine
“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
A Tetchy Defence of a Bad Foreign Policy
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on May 7, 2014
A little over a week ago, President Obama was asked in the Philippines about his foreign policy. It was a rather complex question that asked for Obama’s “vision,” “doctrine,” and “guiding principle“—and also how he “answer[s] those critics who say they think the doctrine is weakness.” The President gave a 949-word answer. To say that it was defensive, disingenuous, and wrong-headed would be to say the least of it. Continue reading
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