How Assassinations Are Used In Politics And Wars

In today’s show originally recorded and broadcast on July 16, 2024, Andy is joined by Dr. Peter Hammond for a show entitled, “The Real Story Of How Assassinations Are Used In Politics And Wars.”

We discussed: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous statement, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”; the suspicious death of Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, during the Second World War; the first political assassination, which was of Julius Caesar; the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in 1170; why the last five Tsars of Russia were all probably murdered, and how tomorrow is the anniversary of the murder of the Russian Royal Family; the first assassination with a firearm, which took place in Scotland; the Communist assassination of Haile Selassie, the last Emperor of Ethiopia, in 1975; the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in 1981; the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, which was followed by the election of Woodrow Wilson; why assassins are almost always “lone nuts” and never part of a wider conspiracy; how assassinations have been used to get rid of moderate leaders only to replace them with radicals who would go on to start wars; why the main reason there has been no revolution in America for over 200 years, is there is no American Embassy in America; how a political assassination to have sparked off the First World War; Stephen Mitford Goodson’s claim that the people behind the assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1966, were the same people behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963; the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump; a brief analysis of the Trump Presidency; and many other topics.

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