by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Combat losses of the Ukrainian armed forces along the front have accelerated to a current average of almost two thousand men a day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily  briefing and bulletin. The damage or loss of weapons is also growing fast.   In the first week of July a […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with One of Germany’s most notorious prosecutions of free speech has collapsed, as the Berlin prosecutor’s office has dropped a case designed to stop Germans discussing the war against Russia in the Ukraine. Heinrich Buecher, (lead  image, left) owner of the COOP Anti-war Café on Rochstrasse, has been prosecuted in a Berlin district […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There have always been Russians in the Kremlin who for reasons of imperialist or Orthodox ideology considered themselves exceptionalist in politics. That’s to say, as exceptional or more exceptional than the Americans in the White House. Since Mikhail Gorbachev ruled Russia forty years ago, there have also been Russian exceptionalists who […]

by Editor - Monday, July 22nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Captain Obvious is an American cartoon hero. In Poland, however, he’s now being set up for prosecution on charges of treason for saying the obvious. That, according to the new Polish government and the US Ambassador in Warsaw, Mark Brzezinski, must not be allowed to be said. Instead, the Polish Captain […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 21st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The latest Russian Defense Ministry daily bulletin was issued on Tuesday afternoon, July 9.  Since then the Pentagon and the White House have been as silent as the tomb. Make that thirty-five American tombs. “During the day [July 9],” said the Defense Ministry briefer in Moscow,    “the Armed Forces of the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In ancient rhetoric classes, and ever since, it has been taught that combining two negatives in a sentence produces a positive, albeit a version of the truth which has been made ambiguous enough to allow its opposite, a lie.    So when President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman issues two negatives on two […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If you think that Popeye beat Bluto because he ate spinach, this US presidential cartoon, I mean  debate, was for you. That President Joseph Biden, handicapped as he was by Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy body dementia, won the 90-minute television fight with Donald Trump seems so obvious to Russians, they express […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Buried in the small print and legalese of the new European Union (EU) sanctions announced on June 24 is the re-establishment of the old European and American empires’ operation of privateering. That’s piracy on the high seas licensed by the monarch or the head of state on condition that the proceeds […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6) continues to celebrate itself as the master of deception operations, at least when it comes to fooling their own population and their US allies. Successful deception is the principal weapon London contributes in its special relationship with the US, since in money, men, weapons, […]

by Editor - Monday, June 24th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The balloon didn’t quite go up at Wednesday’s session of European Union (EU) officials in Brussels to decide on a new round of anti-Russian sanctions, the fourteenth package of the EU’s economic war. Stopping Russian helium exports, one of the items in the package, wasn’t the sticking point.*   The Russian […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 20th, 2024
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