Behind the Bastards

Lukashenko's biggest challenge, meanwhile, still lies ahead. His exit from the political stage.

In his biography on Lukashenko, Valery Karbalovich described the leader as a hostage trapped in a political system of his own making.

Lukashenko, he writes, has no choice but to try to remain in power indefinitely with no viable successor in sight.

Karbalovich says Lukashenko's electoral defeat would lead to radical regime change.

The thesis of this book is that key members of the Johnson administration, in particular Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, had actively sought to weaken and impair the defenses of the United States, motivated by a belief that the cause of freedom was doomed, that the Soviet Union would surely win the Cold War, and that preparing for the eventual inevitable surrender was the best means for survival.

I'm going to quote now from a book titled INSTRUMENTS OF STATECRAFT, U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism, which is available for in full for free online right now.

During congressional investigations led by Senator James Alboresque in 1973, eight officials admitted that the Los Fresnos Sessions, what the press would call the bomb school, offered lessons not in bomb disposal, but in bomb making.

The course is not designed to, nor does it prepare the student to be a bomb or explosive disposal technician.

There's the rest of the instruction introduces trainees to commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques and the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries.

Different types of explosive techniques and booby traps and their construction and use by terrorists are demonstrated.

Hope Never Dies as an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama Biden team to emerge from political retirement as action heroes.

Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high stakes thriller that combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes with the laugh out loud, romantic chemistry of Lethal Weapon, Murtagh and Riggs.

Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident.

They uncover the sinister forces advancing America's opioid epidemic.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Although he has more leisure than almost anyone, the indifference apathy, if one prefers, of the lower class person is such that he seldom makes even the simplest repairs to the place that he lives in.

He is not troubled by dirt or dilapidation and he does not mind the inadequacy of public facilities such as schools, parks, hospitals, and libraries.

Indeed, where such things exist, he may destroy them by carelessness or even by vandalism.

during the 1910s and to a greater degree from 1920 onward, the white elite of the South voiced growing criticism of the practice of lynching.

law enforcement authorities in the South were generally taking initiatives to protect Black suspects from being seized by lynch mobs.

in his study of the state of Kentucky, historian George Wright comes to the conclusion that the number of executions of Blacks carried out during the first decades of the 20th century continually rose, while the number of lynchings steadily declined during the same period.

As investigative reports from that date from this period reveal, however, penalties were rarely imposed because district attorneys, judges and jury members were highly reluctant to limit the power and authority of law enforcement officials.

The report also documented the use of the so-called water cure on black suspects, a forerunner to waterboarding that US soldiers used during the Philippine American War 1899 and 1902.

In 2006, Frederick Forsyth all but admitted to an interviewer that he had in fact planned and failed to execute a coup to overthrow Maseus.

In Bob Denard's successful coup off of the coast of East Africa, all of the men he's carried into battle had copies of the French translation of the Dogs of War in their back pocket.