Topic: Middle Ages

The history of state-sponsored terror is traced back to the 11th-century "Hashashim" or Order of Assassins in Persia. Dyer compares this Islamic sect's use of strategic assassination to the later development of standing armies by the papacy. He argues that these historical examples represent the overstepping of boundaries between religious and political power.

The discussion covers the use of "controlled chaos" as a foreign policy tool and the eventual move toward a neo-medieval system of city-states. Estulin posits that the elite are managing a transition to a world with fewer people to preserve depleting natural resources.