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FRANCOIS FLAHAULT—Ayn Rand’s popularity is comparable to that of L Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, so it’s not surprising that a group of her disciples tried to turn her fictional utopia into a reality. In 1995, 13 years after the author’s death, full-page announcements appeared in The Economist and Time magazine declaring the big idea of this “prophetic genius” to be no longer a dream, but a reality in the shape of Laissez Faire City. Volunteers from around the world were invited to come and join.

RAINER SHEA—It’s for this reason that Trump recently grew intimidated and stopped Netanyahu’s initial annexation attempt. The White House has been hesitant to allow Israel to do something so drastic, despite the Trump administration’s otherwise consistently pro-Zionist stances. As much as the imperialists and the Zionists aggressively posture towards their enemies and plan new conquests, they keep getting themselves into more trouble and then ultimately having to draw back.

In late May, Avifavir received a registration certificate from the Russian Ministry of Health. On June 3, the drug was included in the official list of COVID-19’s prevention, diagnosis, and treatment guidelines in the European country. It is the first COVID-19 drug in the world to contain the active ingredient favipiravir.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Just last night on MSNBC Chris Hayes was talking about Trump’s controversial commuting of Roger Stone’s prison sentence and he parroted the completely false and utterly baseless claim that Stone was a “go between” for WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign. “Roger Stone was what he looked like: a go-between between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, and then he lied about it, which is what he was convicted for,” Hayes said. This is just completely untrue. The only communications between Stone and WikiLeaks prior to the November 2016 presidential election were WikiLeaks telling Stone to stop falsely claiming that he was in communication with the outlet

We speak to Prof. Richard Sakwa, author of ‘The Putin Paradox’. He discusses Vladimir Putin’s constitutional referendum, in which his reforms were approved by a majority of Russians. He discusses the results of the referendum being impressive for Putin, dangerous elements of the reforms, McCarthyite coverage of Russia and Putin over the allegations of Russia putting bounties on American soldiers for The Taliban in Afghanistan and Trump’s victory in 2016, the journalistic bubble among Western commentators regarding Russia, the threat of nuclear conflict with Russia growing, Joe Biden threatening economic warfare if he wins and more!