MICHAEL WALSH REPORT: When ten years ago, Russian-Jewish oligarch Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in Moscow, Western media described the notorious playboy as ‘Putin’s opposition.’

Yet, in electoral terms, the playboy oligarch was less popular than England’s absurd Screaming Lord Sutch’s Monster Raving Loony Party.  At least the latter gathered enough votes to gain seats. It is doubtful if President Putin, with a popularity rating of 86%, lost much sleep over such a ‘threat’.

Britain’s then-Prime Minister David Cameron dared to demand that Russia hold a transparent investigation into the murder. This is the same Etonian who covers up, denies or delays a score or more inquiries into political corruption, sexual and financial? 

These cover-ups include the murder of government weapons expert, Dr David Kelly.

The United States has a far worse record of assassination than modern Russia. Between 1970 and 2013, there have been 758 assassinations worldwide, of which.  Of these, only 8% occurred in Russia, which is the world’s largest country. 

The U.S. tops the ‘Assassination of Political Inconveniences’ League. Since 1865 more American heads of state have been assassinated than in any other country.  

Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1882), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963). The latter was almost certainly disposed of by the CIA. 

There were the attempted assassinations of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15 1933. U.S President Theodore Roosevelt was injured in 1912, and U.S President Ronald Reagan was badly wounded in 1981. 

In November 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists sought to murder President Harry S. Truman in a shoot-out.  

During and following World War Two, there was a wave of convenient ‘suicides’ throughout the United States. These included Harry Dexter White, Stephen Duggan and former U.S. Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant.  

U.S General George S. Patton died when the Jeep he was travelling in was ‘accidentally’ rammed in defeated Germany.  The outspoken critic of unelected President Truman’s regime had earlier written to his wife and predicted he would not be coming home.

Another U.S policy critic was U.S First Secretary of Defence James Forrestal.   Diagnosed as being ‘deeply depressed’ he was placed in an upper-floor room of a Washington DC hospital.  On May 22 1949, he ‘fell’ from its open window.   Why was a man in such a state not given a ground-floor room with a sealed window?

William Colby spilt the beans on the corruption endemic sweeping the White House. He also told all about the widespread corruption throughout the U.S governing elite and corporate media. 

This former CIA Director really should have taken the Edward Snowden route to Russia.  Soon afterwards, William Colby died in a mysterious boating ‘accident’.

In the U.S, more than 40 high-profile Western bankers died recently under suspicious circumstances. The European Union records more assassinations than does Russia; is the EU trying to catch up with the U.S., perhaps?

This might be a good time to remember that, of late, no less than 12 notable U.S. political figures have been murdered or discovered dead under suspicious circumstances.

These include Senators, Congressmen, Federal Prosecutors, a Federal Judge, and a State Governor; all died after their unwisely perhaps questioned corruption or corporate malpractice.  You can share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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