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The Soviet Campaign Against Pinochet’s Chile
Moscow’s propaganda networks and global terrorism apparatus worked right down to the end.
 • Kyle Orton
The Downfall of Salvador Allende
Fragments from a Cold War life
 • Kyle Orton
The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement, 1866 – 1876: Nihilism, “The People”, and Defining Terrorism’s Purpose
Sergey Nechayev, the “Going to the People” Experiment, and Pyotr Tkachov
 • Kyle Orton
The Most Infamous Russian Revolutionary Manifesto of the Nineteenth Century
“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev
 • Kyle Orton
Why There is No Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians
A Telling Example From the Oslo Process
 • Kyle Orton
A Myth-Maker of the Soviet Revolution: Maxim Gorky
Widely respected abroad as a literary figure, Gorky whitewashed some of the Soviet regime’s worst crimes
 • Kyle Orton
The Nazi Refugees in Latin America
Where, How Many, Who, and Why
 • Kyle Orton
General Pinochet and the Nazis
Soviet Disinformation Never Truly Dies
 • Kyle Orton
Speech and Genocide: The Rwanda Media Case
“Direct Incitement” Violates the Genocide Convention. “Hate Speech” Does Not, Nor is it Evidence of Genocidal Intent.
 • Kyle Orton
Can We Ever Know How Many People Were Killed in Rwanda?
Probably not.
 • Kyle Orton
Roman-Arab Relations and the Arab Adoption of Monotheism Before Islam
Arab settlers and foederati in the Roman Empire from the fourth to seventh centuries
 • Kyle Orton
The Historicity of Islam’s First Caliph
In Search of Abu Bakr
 • Kyle Orton
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