By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British Government revealed this week it is paying Lord Anthony Hughes (lead image), a retired judge, £900.83 per month to conduct a public inquiry into the Government’s Novichok allegations against Russia. Following two preliminary hearings in March  and July,  Hughes has ruled that none of the state evidence for the […]

by Editor - Friday, November 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The news from Odessa, the third city of the Ukraine and its leading port, is there is almost no news. This has strategic significance. It means there is no Russian plan for a battle for Odessa, no artillery, missile, air, or naval attack on the city. The Odessans know this, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with William Browder has been a spokesman for making war on Russia for seventeen years, ever since he was evicted from the country for running investment frauds. The history of those frauds had run for an earlier decade. Lucy Komisar is the US journalist and financial fraud analyst who has written the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week the first snow landed on Moscow without sticking. On Thursday a significant  anniversary has also fallen without sticking. It has been ninety-one years since November 3, 1931, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party voted the resolution to design, build, and pay for public parks and gardens as […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 6th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reveals that the Ukraine has become a thieves’ paradise  in which  corporate loan defaults are written off;  embezzlement from banks is not traced;   the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) no longer audits the country’s bank liabilities and reserves;  and the IMF admits […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Until capitulation in war, the winning side is the one that learns fastest. The loser is the slowpoke. In Washington, the turnover of staff inside President Biden’s White House has been so rapid, the learning process for the new staff has been almost as retarded as the incapacity to learn has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Not  One Inch” is the title of a new book by American historian Mary Sarotte after the notorious promise which US Secretary of State James Baker (lead image, 2nd from right) gave Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, and which now has come to its final test on the battlefields of […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with How can the English retain their sense of humour, let alone make war on Russia, when their country – I mean England, not Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, or Ulster – is the laughingstock of the world? The answer is not to receive the message. That’s Roger for Receive — military radio jargon […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week on October 19 the US Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla [lead image, lower right] , commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia [top], a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of the wars in Europe, and the wars in Asia, there has never been a combination like the present one. When the Special Military Operation began on February 24, the Russian forces at the western border were counted by the western media at about 190,000; roughly half then […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
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