By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In response to a question about the year ahead in a recent seminar, I said I had no hope — that we struggle in politics because it’s our moral duty, not because we calculate there might be, or will be,  a greater benefit than cost in the outcome. Counting of that […]

by Editor - Friday, December 26th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Pejorism is the idea that the world is getting worse so you should prepare yourself, your house, your country, your army. Meliorism — the opposite idea that the world is getting better, that time and history are on your side, etc. — has been so powerful for so long that it […]

by Editor - Friday, December 26th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the time being the Trump Administration and its allies conduct their war against Russia on the high seas, outside defended territorial waters, against ship targets which are unarmed, threaten no resistance. This is piracy, effective if the sight of the skull-and-bones flag triggers fear, shock, immediate surrender. In the Caribbean […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 25th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In an unusually frank analysis of the General Staff’s electric war campaign since 2022, Vzglyad, the semi-official platform for security analysis in Moscow, has acknowledged that three years of strikes against Ukrainian energy targets have fallen short of their military objective because the targeting has been restricted by President Vladimir Putin’s […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The official record of three conversations President Vladimir Putin (lead images, right) had with President George W. Bush (lead images, left) in 2001, 2005, and 2008 has just been released in Washington. This follows a federal court lawsuit to compel the US National Archives to speed up the declassification process which […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the International System of Units, hertz is a unit of frequency for measuring the number of times a repeating event occurs per second, like waves, cycles or vibrations of pitch, sound, or electrical current.  The common multiples are kilohertz, megahertz, and gigahertz. Merz is the unit measuring the number of times German […]

by Editor - Monday, December 22nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Friedrich Merz (lead image) — Germany’s chancellor for just eight months with only 28%  of the vote —  is a Joseph Kennedy  fascist. That’s the line which Kennedy, then US Ambassador to the UK, ran to President Franklin Roosevelt between 1938 and 1940 — “fascism is the cure of communism”. Now […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 21st, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Blowing the shofar, the Jewish ritual ram’s horn, has traditionally been the signal to start an attack or a war, and also to celebrate victory at the end of a war.   In the lead picture, two rabbis, Eli Schlanger (left) and Yossi Friedman (right) blew the shofar above Bondi Beach in […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with From Regis Tremblay in Crimea comes a comprehensive answer to the questions the alt-media bloggers and podcasters don’t want to answer. Click to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0bN683uaq4 

by Editor - Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There’s a line in Shooting the Past, a 1999 film by the London filmmaker Stephen Poliakoff, in which the leading character, who runs a large historical photo archive, asks whether it is possible for a photograph to capture a lie coming out of the mouth of a liar. The character isn’t […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
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