by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Imagine the history of a bank written by the driver of the getaway car used by a gang of holdup men after their heist. Then imagine the driver and his gang are religious fundamentalists convinced that what they are doing is God’s mission to reform the banking business by introducing daylight […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Diogenes of Sinope (lead image, centre), the still famous philosopher of ancient Greece, had an unusually long and exceptionally miserable life between 412 and 323 BC.  There’s no telling whether he inherited the profits of his father’s money manipulation business, but by the time he was captured by pirates,  enslaved,  and […]

by Editor - Friday, December 20th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Quoting Mark Twain, President Vladimir Putin has made his first public statement on Syria during his Direct Line broadcast on Thursday. “Whoever wants to imagine Russia weakened…I want to recall the famous man and writer, who once said: ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’”   During four and a […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 19th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the English-language media markets it is impossible for any journalist, editor, publisher or owner to be more corrupt, more of a liar, more of a fraud, and more of a success at selling all three than Rupert Murdoch. That was until the mass media at which Murdoch excelled were superseded […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Vladimir Putin gave a party rally speech in Moscow on Saturday in which he omitted to mention seven of the eight domestic issues most troubling Russian voters – inflation; high interest-rate caused stagnation in the economy; corruption;  low quality education;  poor public health care; terrorism; and illegal immigrants.   He […]

by Editor - Saturday, December 14th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The illustration of power coming out of the barrel of a gun is from a comic book. Contemplating the reality of Russia’s position in Syria, no one in a position to know believes in cartoon captions,  the credibility of the gun, or the direction in which the horse is now running. […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 12th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The defeat of the Russian army in war discredits, not the soldiers who fought and died, but the commander-in-chief and the generals who were in command. Defeat on the battlefield also destroys Russian military honour as a political force in the country, just as its opposite, victory on the battlefield,  threatens […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Charles Brown (lead image, right), has just revealed by press leak that he and the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, had talked by telephone last week, on November 27, and agreed not to disclose the contents […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The damage assessments of yesterday’s November 28 electric war strikes against targets across the Ukraine spell the countrywide collapse of electricity supply before January 20, when the new Trump Administration will take office. By then, the Russian General Staff will have deprived Keith Kellogg, the retired US Army general newly appointed […]

by Editor - Friday, November 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Tuesday afternoon, November 26, the Russian Defense Ministry issued an unusual bulletin revealing that since the Oreshnik strike on November 21, the US had launched two ATACMS  attacks across the Ukrainian border on Russian military targets in the Kursk region. The first of these on an S-400 air defence unit […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
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