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or half a dozen years now, many pundits and politicians have been transfixed by the idea that Moscow is manipulating our national psyche. Antero, now streaming on YouTube and available on DVD from Original Falcon Press, offers a more literal spin on that idea: In this science-fiction scenario, a designer drug allows Russian agents to actually enter users’ dreams. But these dream-hacking conspiracies aren’t aimed at altering American politics—the Russian mafia has gotten its hands on the technology, and it has its own targets to pursue.

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