Through the unrelenting work of a global grassroots network of internet detectives, Matt Ridley in Spiked Online (and, with scientist Alina Chan, in the updated version of their book Viral) provides the latest news on the unofficial quest for the origins of Covid-19 (since China’s Communist government has corrupted all official inquiries). Their conclusion won’t surprise conservatives: the evidence against the Wuhan Institute of Virology just grows and grows.
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.
