Today in Labor History January 17, 1977: The U.S. resumed capital punishment after a ten-year hiatus, by executing Gary Gilmore by firing squad in Utah. Check out the classic punk song, “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes,” by the Adverts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swspID3Nxk
Today in Labor History November 16, 1849: Russian authorities gave a death sentence to author Fyodor Dostoevsky for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group called the Petrashevsky Circle. He and his colleagues were lined up before the firing squad when, at the last minute, a cart arrived with a letter from the Tsar, commuting their sentence. He still had to serve 4 years hard labor in Siberia. Dostoevsky alludes to his experience before the firing squad in his 1868-1869 novel, “The Idiot.”
Does Yevgeny Prigozhin really think Belarus will facilitate a deal with Putin?
He's known Putin for a long time. Does he think Putin will forgive him, especially if reports are true and Putin left Moscow for his personal refuge to "work remotely " from there ? #FiringSquad#Russia#Putin#RussianGulags#RussianMutiny
#Trump lacked power to declassify secret nuclear arms #document, experts say
“The secret document, listed as No. 19 in the indictment charging Trump with endangering national security, can under the Atomic Energy Act only be declassified through a process that by the statute involves the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense.”