by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Playing pirates on the high seas was once a bankrupt king’s scheme, then an empire schoolboy’s game — first for the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British, and now the MAGA Americans. From the Hollywood films he watched when he was in short pants, Donald Trump did not learn that […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last Chinese as clever, as profiteering, and as popular in the imagination of millions as DeepSeek was Dr Fu Manchu. “Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan,” wrote his creator Sax Rohmer, the alias of an Englishman:  “invest him […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 9th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Holding hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, US President Donald Trump has adopted genocide as his personal method for destroying the Arabs of Palestine. “Really very unlucky”, Trump declared the Palestinians have been for being the wrong people in the wrong place. “Being in its presence just has not […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On January 17, when the Presidents of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian,  signed the Treaty on the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation,  they were standing at the front of a line of Russian and Iranian (Persian) tsars, shahs, generals, ministers, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When Tulsi Gabbard, nominee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was asked by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence what she thought of Russia Today (RT), she replied: “RT News is a propaganda arm of the Russian state government and is not a reliable source of objective news reporting.” […]

by Editor - Monday, February 3rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise For every oligarch there ever was Will gather there for certain because Today’s the day the oligarchs have their picnic. Every oligarch who’s been […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In anticipation of the start of end-of-war negotiations between President Donald Trump’s retired general Keith Kellogg and the Kremlin, Dmitri Rogozin has proposed three fresh principles for the Russian outcome – acceleration, decapitation, mobilization. Since 1996 Rogozin is the longest running contestant for the Russian presidency — longer running than Vladimir […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There was a time when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was President of Iran (1989-97) and he despatched from his personal office secret intelligence-gatherers to Moscow. That was during the Yeltsin administration, when there was no love lost for Iran inside the Kremlin wall. So Rafsanjani’s advisors came under cover of merchants […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Novichok is the notorious warfighting poison which has killed no one but fooled everyone. At least that’s how British Government officials, their scientists, chemical warfighters, policemen, media reporters, and trailing after them all, their judges, intend the story to be told.  Theirs is the story of the assassination, ordered by President […]

by Editor - Monday, January 13th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a single line expressed through a reporter, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has explained the defeat of Syria as a tactical withdrawal in preparation for the “military conflict with NATO, and in the next 10 years. So, Russia right now needs solutions that will ensure at least a long-term balance […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 12th, 2025
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