People increasingly no longer “turn on the TV” or “watch cable”, they “stream” on their “device”. Which makes big-ticket streaming services like Netflix the leading cultural and even political arbiters of our era, writes Itxu Díaz in The European Conservative. And the uniformly woke and relentlessly left-wing torrent gushing forth to Netflix’s hundreds of millions of adherents, warns Díaz, is brainwashing a generation of young viewers with a deranged anti-Western worldview.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.