While many outside Britain understandably might not recall the brutal killing of MP David Amess last October, Tom Slater points out in Spiked that many Britons also have trouble with the details. Reminder: it was a terrorist act by a Jew-hating Islamic radical. Slater laments the wider effort to “depoliticize” such matters, i.e., suppress open discussion of the facts.

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.


