It Can Always Get Worse
Kyle OrtonWritten by Kyle Orton, the newsletter covers contemporary issues of terrorism and geopolitics, plus a lot of history, espionage, religion, books, and occasional film reviews.
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The First Shark Attack
Watson and the Shark (1778)
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If the question is the first (...
Is the Supreme Leader in Control of the Islamic Revolution?
Assessing the status of Mojtaba Khamenei in Iran’s regime
The Supreme Leader (Rahbar-e Mo’azzam) of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Khamenei, was killed on 28 February, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran. On 8 March, h...
Seymour Hersh Didn’t Change
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In December 2025, Netflix put out a documentary directed by...
Islamic State Mocks Al-Qaeda’s Alliance with Tuareg Separatists in Mali
Al-Naba 545, page three
The 545th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State’s weekly newsletter, was published on 30 April 2026, and had as its main editorial a polemic against Al-Qaeda for allying with the tribal-separatist Tuaregs in Mali. A...
The Tsardom and the Jews
Antisemitism was not an official policy of the Russian Imperial government
It is by now conventional wisdom across ideological lines in the West that it was official policy in Imperial Russia to promote antisemitism as part of a (doomed) s...
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