By John Helmer  @bears_with The first report came from RIA-Novosti, the Russian state news agency, on May 25 at 13:24. “President Vladimir Putin’s helicopter (lead image, top) was in the epicentre of repelling a large-scale attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones during a visit to the Kursk region, said Yury Dashkin [Major General in command of […]

by Editor - Friday, May 30th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with There is a risky way of being an American against the wars that President Donald Trump is aiming to fight, especially the one Trump claims not to be fighting against Russia on the Ukraine battlefield. The risk is that you may have to use words like imperialism, oligarchy, false consciousness, revolution.   […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Russian officials will ignore President Donald Trump’s tweets in order to focus on the main chance. “We do not consider the infantile attitude of Trump as a problem,” an official source said, responding to Trump’s statement and tweets of May 26 and 27. “We consider he is the legitimate counter party [for end-of-war […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Either President Donald Trump (lead image, bottom) cannot comprehend the sequence of cause and effect. Or he cannot control his own military and intelligence operations in the war against Russia. Or Trump thinks he can deceive President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top), authorize an attack on him personally, and later, when the […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 25th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In their hour-long Oval Office meeting on May 22, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa. This is the longest,  continuous face-to-face verbal assault on a foreign head of state in recent Trump history. As the lead image shows, Ramaphosa and the state ministers sitting at his right […]

by Editor - Friday, May 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with The war in the Ukraine is a sideshow for President Donald Trump because he is escalating his preparations for war against Russia on other fronts and concentrating his main forces against China on the ground, Russia in space.  This is Trump’s MEGA – Make the Empire Great Again. This is also the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Is it MAGA or is it MEGA? When President Donald Trump negotiated with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, May 19,  was he aiming to lower the cost of the Ukraine war to the domestic US economy, or to enrich it by transferring the war cost to the Europeans, particularly Germany, so that […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner.   On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s […]

by Editor - Monday, May 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In Soviet days Russians were famous for not smiling, at least not in public. In private, smiling was strictly between consenting adults. Now it is a marketing ploy of Sberbank — the state savings bank run by Yeltsin-era leftover, German Gref – to invite its customers to smile whenever they make payments. […]

by Editor - Monday, May 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In the outcome, it’s the old story come true again. That’s the one in which Tarquin, the ancient Roman king, wanted the Cumaean Sybil to sell him the nine books of prophecies known as the Sybilline Oracles. When the king dismissed the Sybil’s price for the nine, she burned three and asked […]

by Editor - Saturday, May 17th, 2025
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