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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with All’s fair in love and war – this  is a 500-year old English proverb but it isn’t in the Geneva conventions on war crimes and genocide, much as the US and US-backed Israel claim it is.    In the war of US, NATO and their Asian allies against Russia, it is […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When the General Staff have been discussing with President Vladimir Putin the timing of the Russian offensive to force the Kiev regime into capitulation, it has been agreed, understood, and repeated that the strategic reserves of the Ukrainian forces should be destroyed first, together with the supply lines for the weapons […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russianness is now banned in many parts of the unfriendly world. In Australia the banning started in earnest when the Ukraine war commenced in 2014. Already I had been banned by the state’s Australian Broadcasting Commission, then the commercial mainstream press from 2013. Just before, on September 9, 2012, 3MBS, a […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Not since Moses held out his hand and got the Israelites’ god to blow an easterly wind to part the Red Sea, has there been such a prodigious feat on that stretch of water. In the hours following the US and UK bombing and missile attacks on Yemen on Friday morning, […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a country which is collaborating in genocide, an ancient story of God-ordained slaughter, heroic soldiers, and pitiless blood lust is bound to be required reading in schools and universities, quoted by politicians, even churchmen, and celebrated as one of the greatest epics ever told. Robin Lane Fox, an ancient Greek […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with We will be silent from January 1 until January 15, but not deaf or blind.

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.    Notified in advance to the Yemeni authorities and the […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Monday, General Lloyd Austin (lead image, left), the US Secretary of Defense, announced that the US is assembling a fleet of warships to defend Israel’s port of Eilat, the Gulf of Aqaba, and Israel’s Red Sea shipping route by threatening to attack Yemen if it exercises its Law of the […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with US Congressmen have adopted the unusual procedure of approving by voice vote – no tally — a ban on imports of Russian uranium to fuel US nuclear reactors.  Hidden from the record are the Congressmen who insisted on including a loophole, Section 2, allowing a waiver of the law until January […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Mistakes are what we are taught to make. Recognizing and correcting them are what we learn on our own. Repeating mistakes after recognizing them for what they are – that’s what a dunce does. In this most intimate of memoirs, John Helmer tells the story of his life, his mistakes and […]