Brendan O’Neill in Spiked discusses the new front in the under-reported – and largely artificial – threat to the global food supply: restricting farmers’ access to fertilizer. O’Neill criticizes an accelerating government crusade that, in the name of a greener future, can only lead to less food production.

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.


