by Evan Jones, Sydney, introduced by John Helmer   @bears_with Fascism is the combination of force, fraud, and propaganda which replaces constitutional rule by parliament and the rule of law. Spain under Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and Greece under the Colonels, are 20th century examples in Europe. There are more recent […]

by Editor - Friday, March 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with James Bamford is forty years late in discovering that Israel not only spies against the US, but does so constantly and comprehensively, effectively escaping prosecution at the highest levels of government in Washington, and almost always lower down.    Now almost 77 years of age, Bamford is not old enough […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There once was a genuine little prince whose story was a fable about the destruction of France and of civilization in Europe. Coming in April of this year, it will be eighty years since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince in safe haven on Long Island, New York.   The book […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Fascism is coming to a screen near you. It may already be there on your smartphone, the wall of your smarthouse, or the computer in your lap or on your desk.  Depending on where you are located, it’s Ausfash, Canfash, Greenfash (Germany), Ukronazism (Canada, Poland, Ukraine). A generation ago, this is […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Australia was the only country in the world to close its borders to its  own citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to force the few allowed to return into police detention for which the detainees were compelled to pay. This dictatorship of coronavirus as a crime was created by Prime […]

by Editor - Monday, December 19th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Rupert Murdoch has been making money out of the combination of inflated female sex parts and puffed up Russia hatred for his entire life.   He used to keep the two of them apart; there wasn’t as much money to be made out of the latter, at least not by the […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 24th, 2022
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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 “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 Among men eunuchs have the highest pitched voices. In crowds they can be heard but not listened to. They were more persuasive in the empires of the Asiatic despots.   Sir Rodric Braithwaite has just published a book entitled “Russia, Myths and Realities”, implying that now his country, the United Kingdom […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 4th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On the subject of Russia and the Russians, American exceptionalism pops up in the most unexpected places. Take the case of a new book from the Russia-warfighting publisher Random House of New York fetchingly sub-titled “In which four Russians give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life”. The Guardian, lead […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
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