Kyle W. Orton·Dec 12, 2018“Zionism is Making Us Stupid”: The Russian Relationship with Israel from the Soviets to PutinINTRODUCTIONA response icon2A response icon2
Kyle W. Orton·Sep 5, 2018Lingering Questions About 9/11In less than a week, it will be the seventeenth anniversary of al-Qaeda’s “Plane’s Operation”, the assault on the United States. It is a…
Kyle W. Orton·May 17, 2018Scandinavian Fascists Fight for Russia and the Regime in SyriaThe Norwegian news portal AldriMer reported on 11 May about a group of far-Right Scandinavians who fought under Russian command for the…A response icon1A response icon1
Kyle W. Orton·Jun 21, 2016Russia Needs the Islamic State to Save AssadAfter a coalition supporting the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad conquered the city of Palmyra from the Islamic State (IS) in late…A response icon1A response icon1
Kyle W. Orton·Nov 10, 2015The Riddle of Haji BakrSamir al-Khlifawi, a former intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein’s regime, is said to have controlled ISIS since 2010. Did he?
Kyle W. Orton·Oct 24, 2015Saddam’s Salafists and Laying the Foundations of ISISBook Review: The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Life of an Iraqi Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny (2009) by Wendell Steavenson
Kyle W. Orton·Sep 8, 2015How Russia Manipulates Islamic TerrorismLast year I wrote about the murky role Russia was playing in the Syrian war, bolstering the Bashar al-Assad tyranny while facilitating the…
Kyle W. Orton·May 7, 2015Book Review: The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982) by Bernard LewisWith the triumph of relativism and the current economic woes of the West, the sense that Western civilization is unique and in some…
Kyle W. Orton·Apr 28, 2015Obama’s Iran Deal Increases Nukes, Terrorism, and InstabilityThe key thing to understand about the JCPOA, the nuclear accord announced on April 2, is that it doesn’t exist.
