by Evan Jones, Sydney, introduced by John Helmer   @bears_with Fascism is the combination of force, fraud, and propaganda which replaces constitutional rule by parliament and the rule of law. Spain under Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and Greece under the Colonels, are 20th century examples in Europe. There are more recent […]

by Editor - Friday, March 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Igor Zyuzin (lead image), owner of the Mechel steel and coal group, and one of the few Russian metals oligarchs not presently sanctioned  by the US, is a running sore on the Kremlin’s policy of halting,  and also continuing,  industrial pollution. From his base in Chelyabinsk, and at factories, mines, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If China’s journalists, foreign intelligence analysts, and People’s Navy staff have needed an opportunity to demonstrate, if not to the Middle Kingdom audience,  then to the US exceptionalist public how peripheral and how mediocre American legends have become, Seymour Hersh has provided it in an interview Hersh (lead image, right) […]

by Editor - Monday, March 13th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the original story of The Riddle of the Sands, two Englishmen sailing a yacht in the Frisian islands of the North Sea discover evidence of German military preparations to go to war and invade England. That was the plot of Erskine Childers’s novel of 1903, based on his yachting […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 12th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with James Bamford is forty years late in discovering that Israel not only spies against the US, but does so constantly and comprehensively, effectively escaping prosecution at the highest levels of government in Washington, and almost always lower down.    Now almost 77 years of age, Bamford is not old enough […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of the wars of the world, it almost never happens that the military strategy of a fighting state directs and revolutionizes the political strategy, and not the other way round —  as  aspiring politicians, military officers and policemen are taught by the venerable Sun Tzu and Carl […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 5th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two Englishmen, Timothy Garton Ash (lead image, left) and Mark Leonard (right),  and Ivan Krastev (centre), a Bulgarian, claim to have discovered from opinion polls they conducted in nine European Union (EU) countries during January that “since Russia’s war on Ukraine began, the US and its European allies have regained their […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with An article by Lucy Komisar on the film “Navalny” was republished here at Komisar’s request on February 22. Komisar has requested its removal after she received an email from Diana Schemo, an ex-New York Times reporter. This is a new story of what was famously called, almost a century ago, La […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
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