by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with An Iranian-Russian initiative on the Gaza War was tabled when Iranian President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi met with President Vladimir Putin for several hours on Thursday. For the time being the Kremlin is doing its best to hide it. According to Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian,  speaking after Raisi had returned […]

by Editor - Friday, December 8th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It has never happened before among the world’s diamond-producing and diamond-processing countries. Meeting together last month in Zimbabwe in what is called the Kimberley Process (KP), the 57-member states  refused to agree to the US and European Union (EU) attempt to exclude Russia, producer of half the diamonds in global trade. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between 1917 and right now in Russian history, it has been clear that the horse pulls the cart. That’s to say, the ideas people have, or the ideology of groups and the propaganda of media, churches, and governments are pulled along by their economic interests, by the class structure of the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Salting the earth, ploughing a toxic chemical into farmland so that no food can be harvested again, was the invention of Abimelech, one of the tribal leaders of the Jewish people after they had invaded Caanan to create the Israelite kingdom,  and after the Israelite tribes had begun fighting among themselves. […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When President Vladimir Putin wrote a condolence on the death of Henry Kissinger (lead image), according to the Kremlin communiqué, the president said things in private to Kissinger’s widow which he left unreported to the Russian press.    The Kremlin communiqué says: “Condolences over the passing of Henry Kissinger. Vladimir Putin […]

by Editor - Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Long before the British intelligence agency MI6  invented the story that Russian military agents had carried the nerve agent weapon Novichok into England, fired it at two Russians, and left it in a dustbin for a local scavenger to find, take home and kill his girlfriend, there was depleted uranium poisoning. […]

by Editor - Friday, December 1st, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is one way in which regional war against Israel can be waged by the Arab states, Turkey, Iran, Russia, even China to which Israel and the US are vulnerable; against which they cannot achieve a quick and conclusive end to Hamas and prevent a multi-front, long and ruinous war for […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 30th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was the US strategy for dismembering the Soviet Union, and then destroying the surviving Russian part, to install individual politicians and formations of economic assets controlled by Washington. The first chosen was Boris Yeltsin; then his prime minister Yegor Gaidar and chief of staff Anatoly Chubais; and then the oligarchs […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Mistakes are what we are taught to make. Recognizing and correcting them are what we learn on our own. Repeating mistakes after recognizing them for what they are – that’s what a dunce does. In this most intimate of memoirs, John Helmer tells the story of his life, his mistakes and […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 26th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between Guy Fawkes Day and Thanksgiving, a short break to complete the new book.

by Editor - Monday, November 6th, 2023
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