Poppy Coburn considers Extinction Rebellion comfy, aging posers doing little more than loudly petitioning the government for reform. That doesn’t mean the onetime Anarcho-Syndicalist (there still is such a thing) thinks climate fears are overblown. Far from it; as she explains in Unherd, the entire regime must be overthrown. Sometimes it helps to know what one is up against.

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.


