Matt Taibbi, writing in Substack, casts a critical eye at the American media’s response to the FBI’s railroading of General Flynn. For Taibbi, the Democratic Party and its media lapdogs have abandoned any pretence at protecting civil liberties. He thinks the

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.


