by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with By Russian oligarch standards, Vladimir Lisin (lead image) – iron-ore and coalminer, steelmaker, land and sea transporter, shipbuilder — is the only honest one. In the acquisition, enlargement,  and protection of his asset holdings over thirty years, he has also managed to defeat the dishonest ones, starting with Oleg Deripaska,  then […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 21st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Alexei Kudrin (lead image) — the state finance factotum President Vladimir Putin promoted for his entire federal government career until in the war against the Ukraine and the US the president couldn’t protect him any longer —  has lost his half-billion dollar payoff. Kudrin’s long-held ambition to succeed Putin in the […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 18th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
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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 […]

by Editor - Monday, January 15th, 2024
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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, […]

by Editor - Monday, January 15th, 2024
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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 […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 14th, 2024
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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.

by Editor - Friday, December 29th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Since the start of Israel’s genocide of Gaza, it has been the claim of the Israelis, their lawyers,  and allies that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, so they say that killing them all is neither a genocide nor a war crime. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said it in India […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The message delivered last week to French President Emmanuel Macron was a dramatic one: Never mind Israel throttling the Palestinians, Macron was told, the Houthis and their Arab and Iranian allies are capable of throttling France.   Macron shot the messenger. Bernard Émié  was fired last Wednesday, December 20, and Nicolas […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 26th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with From the minute after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the UK Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMTO) learned that the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto had been hit by an exploding drone in the Indian Ocean 1,600 kilometres east of the Red Sea and Yemen coast (lead image, left), they also knew why. […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 24th, 2023
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