Seeing similarities to Vladimir Putin’s distorted rhetoric in his lead-up to the invasion of Ukraine, Bill Hayton in Unherd writes how Xi Jinping is using his own erroneous revisionist history to justify imperialistic territorial ambitions that could plunge a vital – and peace-loving – trading region of the world into conflict.

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.


