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Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2023

This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Salam al-Muhajir, Abdesalem Lassoued, Abdul Salam al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, Bataclan theatre, blasphemy, Britain, Brussels, caliphate, Charlie Hebdo, Chérif Chekatt, Chechnya, Christians, DGSI, Dominique Bernard, Europe, Gaza, HAMAS, Ibrahim Boudina, invasion of Iraq, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, lone wolves, media, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Mogouchkov, NATO, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Paris, PIJ, PKK, propaganda, radicalisation, Russia, Stephen Paddock, Sweden, Taha Falaha, terrorism, Turkey on November 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Cold War Roots of the Media Fiasco Over Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged academia, African National Congress, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, al-Jazeera, ANC, Antisemitism, atrocities, Barrack Obama, Black Lives Matter, CIA, Cinema Rex fire, Donald Trump, Edward Said, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, HAMAS, IDF, IRA, Iran Deal, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israeli Defence Force, Jews, journalists, Kfar Aza kibbutz, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Margot Haddad, Marxism, media, moral clarity, mostafeen, Munich Olympics, national liberation movements, Orientalism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, PKK, PLO, pogrom, propaganda, Ruhollah Khomeini, SAVAK, Shah, Sinn Fein, Soviet Union, terrorism, war crimes, ZAKA, Zionism on October 19, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Was Behind the Massacre in Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Ali Akbar Velayati, AMIA, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Cold War, Gaza, HAMAS, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Huthis, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, IRGC Network, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Ismail Qaani, Israel, Jews, Khobar Towers bombing, Lebanon, media, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, pogrom, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, propaganda, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saleh al-Aruri, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Ziyad al-Nakhala on October 10, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged assassination, Augusto Pinochet, Black September, Camilo Valenzuela, Carlos Prats, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevera, Chile, Christian Democrats, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, cordones industriales, Cuba, Dawson’s Field, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Ernesto Guevera, false flag, Fidel Castro, First Chief Directorate, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo de Amigos Personales, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jorge Alessandri, KGB, Luis Corvalán, Marxism, Nathaniel Davis, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, René Schneider, Revolutionary Left Movement, Richard Nixon, Roberto Viaux, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Socialist Party, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, terrorism, Thomas Karamessines, totalitarianism, Unidad Popular, Vietnam, Yom Kippur War on September 23, 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.

Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abbasids, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hudaifa al-Ansari, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, Abu Sulayman al-Shami, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, Afrin, Ahmad Abousamra, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Furqan Media, Al-Injeel, Al-Injil, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, AQAP, assassination, Battle of Fallujah, Bible, blasphemy, Christianity, Christians, Dawud, deen, Deraa, din, Efrin, elections, Fallujah, Gospels, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Hassan al-Utaybi, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hebrew Prophets, HTS, human rights, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ioudaismos, Isa, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, jihadism, Judaism, King David, MIT, Moses, Mother of the Book, mukhabarat, Musa, National Intelligence Organization, New Testament, Nour Karim al-Matni, Nur Karim al-Matni, Old Testament, Omar Hadid, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pentateuch, prisons, propaganda, Prophet Muhammad, Psalms, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Romans, Saudi Arabia, scripture, SNA, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taha Falaha, Tawrah, terrorism, Torah, Turkey, Umar Hadid, Umm al-Kitab, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Zabur on August 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ACLU, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander Palmer, American Civil Liberties Union, American Protective League, anarchism, Anarchist Exclusion Act, anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Ariete Group, Arthur McElfresh, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Battle of the Somme, Ben Cassagranda, Bernard Eubanks, Bert Bland, Black Hand gang, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Britt Smith, Brusilov Offensive, Bureau of Investigation, Carlo Valdinoci, Centralia Massacre, civil rights, CLPA, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party of the United States of America, CPUSA, D.W. Griffith, Dale Hubbard, Emma Goldman, espionage, Espionage Act, Eugene Barnett, Eugene Debs, Eugene Pfister, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Red Scare, First World War, Galleanisti, Germany, Great Migration, Haymarket affair, Henry Clay Frick, Homestead strike, Immigration Act, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian anarchists, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, James McInerney, Jews, Jim Crow, John Lamb, John Watt, Joseph McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, labour strikes, Leon Czolgosz, Loren Roberts, Lost Cause, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Luigi Galleani, MANHATTAN Project, Mario Buda, McCarthyism, Mike Sheehan, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nestor Makhno, Nicola Sacco, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, O.C. Bland, Palmer Raids, Peter Bianki, pogroms, political warfare, Protestantism, racialism, racism, radicals, Ray Becker, reconstruction, Red Arc, Red Scare, Red Terror, Robert Minor, Russia, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sedition Act, segregation, Selective Service Act, Socialist Party of America, SPA, spies, terrorism, The Birth of a Nation, Union of Russian Workers, Volunteer Army, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wall Street bombing, Warren Grimm, What is to Be Done?, William McKinley, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson on August 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

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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.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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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.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Bringing the Islamic State to Saddam’s Iraq and Joining Al-Qaeda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Speeches, History, Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Jihadi Biographies, Saddam and Islamism and tagged 1920 Revolution Brigade, 1991 Iraqi revolts, Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, Abd al-Majid al-Khoe’i, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Abdallah al-Rawi, Abu Abdullah, Abu al-Bara al-Kuwaiti, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoe’i, Abu al-Qassam al-Urduni, Abu Ali, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Bakr Naji, Abu Dajana al-Iraqi, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Firas, Abu Hammam al-Suri), Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza Rabia, Abu Ja’far al-Iraqi, Abu Julaybib al-Urduni, Abu Khattab al-Ansari, Abu Maaz, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, Abu Umar al-Kurdi, Abu Zubaydah, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Hamla al-Imaniya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Ali Berjak, Ali Bourjaq, Ali Mustafa Yussef Siam, Ansar al-Islam, Antisemitism, AQI, AQM, Arab nationalism, Armed Islamic Group, Army of Muhammad, Askari Mosque bombing, Atiya Abd al-Rahman, Atiyya, Ayad Allawi, Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baath Party, Baathism, Baathists, Badr Brigade, Badr Corps, Bashar al-Assad, Bayat al-Imam, Blackwater, caliphate, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colin Powell, Dawa Party, Diana Dean, Duelfer Report, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Eugene Armstrong, Ezzedine Salim, faith campaign, Fallujah, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Mutayri, Faysal bin Zayd al-Mutayri, former regime elements, FREs, General Intelligence Directorate, George Tenet, Germany, GIA, GID, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hadi al-Ameri, HAMAS, Hamid Karzai, Hizb al-Awda, IIS, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Intelligence Service, ISI, Islamic Army of Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Iyad Allawi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jack Armstrong, Jack Hensley, Jadriya bunker incident, Jalal Talabani, Jamaa al-Salafiyya al-Mujahideen fi al-Iraq, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jamal al-Misrati, Jaysh al-Islami al-Iraqi, Jaysh al-Mahdi, Jaysh Muhammad, Jaysh Omar, Jaysh Umar, Jews, jihadism, Jordan, Jund al-Sham, Karbala, Kataib Thawrat al-Ishreen, KDP, Ken Bigley, Khadr Abu Hoshar, Khaled al-Aruri, Khudair Abbas al-Ubaydi, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurds, Kuwait, Laurence Foley, Mahdi Army, Manaf al-Rawi, Mao Zedong, Margaret Thatcher, Masud Barzani, Millennium Plot, Mohamed Abu Dhess, Muhammad Kazem al-Janabi, Muhammad Khalil al-Hakaymah, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, mujahideen, mukhabarat, Mullah Atari, Muqtada al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Najaf, Nicholas Berg, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yousef Juma’a, Omar Yusef Juma, Omar Yusef Juma’a, Operation DAWN, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation PHANTOM FURY, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pan-Arabism, Party of the Return, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Paul Bremer, Peshmerga, PIJ, PLO, PROJECT 111, PUK, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Raed Hijazi, Revolution of Purple Ink, revolutionary warfare, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sadrist Movement, Saif al-Adl, Salafi Group of Holy Warriors in Iraq, Salafism, Salem bin Suweid, Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, Samir Hijazi, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, sharia, Shi’a militias, Shi’a revolt, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Sunni Arabs, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, takfir, takfirism, Taliban, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tawhid cell, terrorism, Thamir al-Rishawi, The Management of Savagery, Thirwat Shehata, tribes, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Yasser Arafat, Yasser Freihat, Yusuf al-Dardiri, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn on June 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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