It’s not just the U.S. that attributes the pandemic to Beijing’s malfeasance. Australia, France, and Britain have all condemned the Communist regime for covering up the coronavirus threat. Not Canada. Writing in The American Conservative, Nico Johnson argues that Justin Trudeau’s politically expedient handling of China erodes the democratic institutions he was elected to protect.

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.


