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Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Memory and Loss

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Antisemitism, Batnadiv HaKarmi, Einsatzgruppen, Europe, Hebrew Bible, Holocaust, Holocaust-by-bullets, Ioudaismos, Jews, Judaism, Nazism, poems, poetry, Poland, religion, Russia, Second World War, Tanakh, The Love of Mortal Beings, Ukraine on July 18, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Rahman al-Khorasani, Abdulrahman al-Khorasani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Jazeera, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Udeid Airbase, al-zanadiqa, Algeria, apostasy, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Breaking the Walls campaign, Burkina Faso, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diwan al-Dawa wal-Masajid, Diwan al-I’lam, Egypt, FIFA World Cup, freedom of religion, God, Gulf States, Hamid al-Zawi, Hashd al-Shabi, heretics, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State ISIS, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamists, Jews, jihad, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, liberalism, Mali, Mozambique, Nangarhar prison break, Niger, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, personal freedom, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Qatar, religion, Sahwa, Sahwat, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Shah Cheragh shrine, sharia, shari’a, Shi’ism, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Africa, Westoxification, Wilayat al-Sahel, World Cup, Yemen, Yusuf al-Siddiq, zakat on December 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 November 2022

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged abortion, Aleksandr Dugin, autocracy, Azov Regiment, Bible, Bolsheviks, charity, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, Communism, concentration camps, cults, Devil, divorce, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Fifth Project, genocide, GULAG, GUR, Holy See, holy war, Hungary, ideology, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, jihad, Joe Biden, Joseph Stalin, just war, Kyrylo Budanov, liberals, Main Directorate of Intelligence, Mikhail Vasiliev, Mitrokhin Archive, Muslims, NATO, NKVD, Novichok, Oleksiy Arestovych, Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill, philosophy, Poland, post-liberals, progressives, propaganda, Protestantism, Ramzan Kadyrov, Reform Baptists, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Russiagate, Russian Orthodox Church, Salisbury, Satan, secret police, sexual revolution, Soviet Union, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Uniates, Uyghurs, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Visegrád Group, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Solovyov, Volodymyr Zelensky, war crimes, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, woke, wokeness, Zionists on November 20, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander Ievreinov, Alexander II, Alexander III, Alexander Kerensky, Alexandra Feodorovna, Alexandra of Denmark, Alfonso XIII, Anton Denikin, ARCOS affair, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Bigge, Battle of the Somme, Black Hundreds, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Brusilov Offensive, Christian X, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Crimea, Czech Legion Aleksandr Kolchak, Dagmar, David Lloyd George, Duma, Eugene Botkin, Eugene Kobylinsky, Evno Azef, February Revolution, First World War, Francis Bertie, George Buchanan, George V, Germany, Glorious Revolution, God, Grigory Rasputin, Gustaf V, Henry Hyndman, Herbert Asquith, HMS Marlborough, Ice March, Ispolkom, Japan, Jews, Jonas Lied, July Days, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kornilov Affair, Kuklin House, liberals, Lord Stamfordham, Marxism, Meiji Japan, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Nicholas II, Nicholas Nikolaevich, Nicholas Nikolayevich, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pavel Milyukov, Pierre Gilliard, Provisional Government, Pyotr Stolypin, Queen Victoria, Ramsay MacDonald, Red Terror, religion, Robert Cecil, Romania, Romanovs, Russian Revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, Siberia, Soviet Union, starets, Trans-Siberian Railway, Tsar, Tsarina, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, Woodrow Wilson, Yalta, Yevno Azef on November 7, 2022 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.

The Islamic State’s Take on the 2008-09 Israel-HAMAS War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Umar al-Baghdadi Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Amaq, America, Antisemitism, Christians, Dabiq, deen, Gaza, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq, Israel, Jews, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, Red Cross, religion, sectarianism on September 6, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Wants the War Against Israel to Be Religious, Not Nationalist

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 April 2022

Al-Naba 332, page three

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This entry was posted in Naba and tagged Abraham Accords, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, al-Naba, al-wala wal-bara, Amaq, Antisemitism, Ayman Ighbariya, Caliph Omar, Companions, HAMAS, Ibrahim Ighbariya, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Israel, Jews, Khaled Ighbariya, Mohammed Abu al-Kiyan, nationalism, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Prophet Muhammad, religion, sahaba, Saladin al-Ayyubi, Shirel Aboukrat, terrorism, Turkey, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Yazan Falah on April 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Intelligence and the English Civil Wars

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 January 2022

Review of ‘The King’s Spy’ (2021), by Mark Turnbull

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Anglicanism, Battle of Naseby, English Civil Wars, espionage, iconoclasm, Intelligence, King Charles I, Lord Digby, papist, Parliamentarians, popish, Prince Rupert, Protestantism, Puritans, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, spies, Wales on January 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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