The World Health Organization’s mandate is to shield us all from the spread of disease. Yet instead of alerting the world to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been complicit in its spread. Kapil Komireddi, writing in The Critic, casts a gimlet eye at Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General, and his strange relationship with China.

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.


