Social Media Ideas for Political Assassinations

Open season: killing the norm against leadership assassination

When the story of an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump during the NATO summit in Turkey emerged in the second week of August, the debate it generated was predomin...

Summer Political Assassinations Portend Autumn Revolution

Three, or more likely four, high-level political assassinations last week are a foretaste of what is likely to be a revolutionary autumn. The people killed were US warmonger Lindse...

Declassified: The 1968 plot against Karamanlis’ life

The 2024 biopic on Italian communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, “The Great Ambition,” revived the discussion about the role played by Eastern bloc secret services during the Cold Wa...

2 Years After Butler, Left-Wing Violence Is Still An Existential Threat

A tragic moment that should have marked the apex of political violence in the U.S. two years ago has today proven to be only the tip of the iceberg in the left's assassination camp...

International pro-life leader assassinated at home

Ann Widdecombe was a British politician and devout Catholic convert whose common sense and unabashed conservatism made her a popular target for leftist abuse, including by at least...

Iran Assassination Threat Appears To Weigh on Trump's Mind

The prospect that Iran might try to kill Trump has hung over the president since he had a top Iranian official assassinated more than six years ago.

‘It becomes inevitable’: the toxic mix fuelling deadly political violence around world

After killing of a British former MP, experts say dehumanising rhetoric, declining institutional trust and disinformation fuelling a global problemOn 9 July, the body of Ann Widdec...

Horrific details emerge about international pro-life leader's assassination

British politician and pro-life advocate Ann Widdecombe was assassinated in her home in Devon, England, earlier this month.Joshua Kerry, the apparent leftist accused of slaying the...

The Lubbock Connection to a Presidential Assassination Attempt

Six shots fired outside a Washington hotel in 1981 put Lubbock in national headlines for all the wrong reasons, and the story behind it still surprises people. Continue reading…

Assessing Psychopathy in Historical Assassins

Two assassins both shocked the nation, but only one was probably a psychopath based on historical collateral information and analysis with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

On the Two-Year Anniversary of Butler, Threats Against Trump Keep Coming

In wake of pro-life leader's assassination, Green Party leader pleads ignorance after sharing violent political image

A British party leader who whined about his own security weeks after a political foe was savagely murdered is in hot water after apparently circulating an image promoting more poli...

Ann Widdecombe killed in ‘targeted attack’, say counter-terrorism police 

The murder of firebrand politician Ann Widdecombe has sent shockwaves through the British establishment, prompting fresh debate around the safety of public figures. An unapologetic...

Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 20 July

Which US president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth? The post

British Officials: Well, Actually, the Murdered Old Lady Was a Targeted Assassination

The Inside Story of Stalin’s Obsession with Killing Trotsky

How Stalin Seized the Revolution Leon Trotsky’s fall from revolutionary hero to hunted exile ranks among the most dramatic reversals in modern political history. As Vladimir Lenin’...

Gachagua Alleges Police Plot to Assassinate Him, Kalonzo and Matiang’i

Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua has accused two police officers attached to the Kikuyu Police Station of accepting payment to assassinate him, Wiper lead...

Italy remembers anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino on the anniversary of his murder

Via D'Amelio bombing took place on this day 34 years ago. Italy on Sunday marks the 34th anniversary of the murder of anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino who was assassinated by the...

Italy remembers General Dalla Chiesa, killed by mafia in Via Carini massacre

Palermo ceremony, attended by interior minister Piantedosi, honours prefect murdered by Cosa Nostra alongside his wife and police escort in 1982. Italy on Thursday marks 44 years...

Trump has become America's most targeted leader, facing threats every few months

President Donald Trump has survived three assassination attempts and nearly 20 known threats total, making him the most targeted U.S. president on public record.

'Plots are ongoing': Waltz says Iran has operatives in U.S. trying to assassinate Trump

Top Trump administration officials confirmed that President Trump faces active and ongoing threats to his life from Iranian operatives within the U.S.

Two years after Butler, threats against Trump keep assassination attempt in sharp focus

Thomas Crooks fired eight shots at Trump during the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, and a new inspector general report reveals the security lapses involved.

A Cyprus murder plot: the Irishman, the secret agent and the alleged plan to kill twin brothers

Irish security sources confident the hits were ultimately commissioned by veteran criminals with close links to the Kinahan cartel

Bessent invokes assassination attempt '2 hours after being sworn in' in dramatic brushback of leftist threat

Scott Bessent revealed he was targeted by a left-wing activist just two hours after being sworn in, pointing to the upcoming August sentencing as proof.