by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Combat losses of the Ukrainian armed forces along the front have accelerated to a current average of almost two thousand men a day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily  briefing and bulletin. The damage or loss of weapons is also growing fast.   In the first week of July a […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with One of Germany’s most notorious prosecutions of free speech has collapsed, as the Berlin prosecutor’s office has dropped a case designed to stop Germans discussing the war against Russia in the Ukraine. Heinrich Buecher, (lead  image, left) owner of the COOP Anti-war Café on Rochstrasse, has been prosecuted in a Berlin district […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There have always been Russians in the Kremlin who for reasons of imperialist or Orthodox ideology considered themselves exceptionalist in politics. That’s to say, as exceptional or more exceptional than the Americans in the White House. Since Mikhail Gorbachev ruled Russia forty years ago, there have also been Russian exceptionalists who […]

by Editor - Monday, July 22nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Captain Obvious is an American cartoon hero. In Poland, however, he’s now being set up for prosecution on charges of treason for saying the obvious. That, according to the new Polish government and the US Ambassador in Warsaw, Mark Brzezinski, must not be allowed to be said. Instead, the Polish Captain […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 21st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There have been many revolutions in the technology and the geography of global cargo transportation. The Portuguese design of caravels to cross the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from the 15th century; the replacement of wind with coal-fired steam in the shipping of the British empire which followed;  and the invention of the […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 18th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Jewish and Christian bibles got the idea down pat. “For this thing is from Israel,” said one of the writers whose compilation of warnings against worship of idols and competing gods is called the book of Hosea. “A craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 14th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the ancient and current doctrine of the law of culpability for killing, the Latin term mens rea  is required to be proved beyond reasonable doubt,  in parallel with proof of actus reus. In short, the intention in mind to kill (aka motive) must be in combination with the hands-on act of […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The latest Russian Defense Ministry daily bulletin was issued on Tuesday afternoon, July 9.  Since then the Pentagon and the White House have been as silent as the tomb. Make that thirty-five American tombs. “During the day [July 9],” said the Defense Ministry briefer in Moscow,    “the Armed Forces of the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with American, British and Canadian troops in NATO’s forward bases in Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania are being told to prepare for deployment to the Ukraine next year. They are also being warned to expect to fight under heavy Russian artillery, missile, guided bomb, and drone strikes. This message is also intended to […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In ancient rhetoric classes, and ever since, it has been taught that combining two negatives in a sentence produces a positive, albeit a version of the truth which has been made ambiguous enough to allow its opposite, a lie.    So when President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman issues two negatives on two […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
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