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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!

MoA—Talks between Russia and the United States about the renewal of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty began today. The New START treaty limits the number of nuclear capable platforms each side can deploy. The U.S. says it wants to bring China into the negotiations. We explained at length before why that does not make sense and why it is thereby not going to happen.

A natural teacher of authentic radical politics, here is Caleb Maupin’s succinct and passionate clarification about what constitutes the real left. Watch Caleb discuss the CIA’s creation of the “Synthetic Left”, which now, along with the multitude of Democratic party falsehoods, dominates the label of “left” in the US and much of the West. 

DANNY MORRISON—To exclude Sinn Féin from power in the South, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, in an unprecedented move, have now agreed to go into coalition, despite memories of the bitter civil war which have defined their origins. However, because between them they do not have the numbers they required the support of a third party, the Greens. On June 15 the three parties agreed on a Program for Government which will now go out to their members to vote on. Fine Gael will agree and – despite opposition from some of its grassroots – so will Fianna Fáil members.

NATYLIE BALDWIN—Just this past weekend, Siberia saw record-high temperatures of 100 degrees. As I discussed in a post last year, though a substantive environmental movement has been slow to effectively get off the ground in Russia, many Russians are increasingly concerned about climate change and other environmental issues as major storms, floods and wildfires on an unprecedented scale have been occurring throughout the country.