By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to the role God plays in Vatican politics, inside the Holy See and outside in the warmaking capital of the US, there can never be too much ado about nothing. You don’t have to be a believer to understand that in war and politics, God is Not Nothing. […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 9th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Professor Higgins’s question to Colonel Pickering about Eliza Doolittle in the line from the musical, My Fair Lady, (lead image) was: Why can’t a woman be more like a man? In Moscow, where the course of the Iran war is having a profound impact on military, intelligence, Foreign Ministry, and Kremlin officials, […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Broadcast with Chris Cook on Tuesday evening, the news broke midway that President Donald Trump had withdrawn his CBOU – Crazy Bastards Obliteration Ultimatum – and agreed to a ceasefire for two weeks of negotiations with Iran. This news followed by several hours in New York, the double veto by China […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has been defeated on the battlefield near Isfahan over the weekend. He was then defeated on the morning of Tuesday  in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in  his attempt, manipulating Bahrain, to legalize the use of force against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Finally, minutes short […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Alive or dead, US Air Force (USAF) Major Amanda Ryder has just destroyed President Donald Trump’s future. The document bag (lead image, bottom left) and documents (right) which the Iranian Law Enforcement Force (Faraja) has disclosed and published in the last twenty-four hours,  are evidence of the weekend firefight  and destruction […]

by Editor - Monday, April 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Mohammed Javad Zarif (lead images) has grown fatter and more swollen-headed since he was replaced as Iran’s Foreign Minister in 2021, then removed as Vice President in 2025.   In Moscow,  Zarif  is known as a Russia-hating, backstabbing liar who negotiates with deceit and whose word  is worthless. Click for more.   For Zarif […]

by Editor - Monday, April 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the four days between April 1 and April 5, President Donald Trump made a record of the collapse of his mind into genocidal violence which none of his officials can dissuade, limit, control, if they try,  or even conceal. Not the military experts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; not […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with By an accident of the calendar, this year’s Good Friday follows just two days after April Fools’ Day. It is no accident that the Trump Administration has put its Arab and European allies for the war against Iran on the battlefield of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in order to […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian public opinion is swinging decisively in favour of Iran and hostility towards the US and Israel is growing, according to the latest nationwide opinion poll conducted by the Levada polling group of Moscow between March 18 and 26, 2026.   Sympathy for Iran is expressed by 40% of the nationwide sample; […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The news broke shortly after today’s Dialogue Works podcast went to air. This is China’s attempt to take from Iran its two trump cards in defending itself from the US, Israel and their allies: First card — Iran’s right of self-defence and retaliation against each and every base, including radars, logistics, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
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