The anonymous proprietor of The Brawl Street Journal Substack writes that the recent appointment to Germany’s Constitutional Court of a follower of Communist revolutionary Antonio Gramsci who believes that nature can hold human rights and that protest movements might supersede elected parliaments as agents of change, plus a recent constitutional amendment imposing specific climate policy goals on elected lawmakers, spell trouble for Europe’s supposedly strongest economy and largest democracy.

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.


