by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Remember the old adage — sticks and stones will break  my bones but words will never harm me. In the war by the US and its Anglo-European allies to destroy Russia since 1945, the propaganda war has been lost by the Russians many times over. That war is still being lost. […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Wherever you are, once you are in war, free speech doesn’t exist any longer. Truth telling is replaced by propaganda narratives enforced by censors and security services. Between the truth and the propaganda there is that burst of 280 characters – 40 to 70 words – which was first invented in […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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On August 24, 1991, Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev committed suicide. He had returned from his holiday at Sochi responding to the attempted removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. According to the reports of the time, he hanged himself in his Kremlin office, leaving behind a note. One version of what it said was: “I cannot […]

by Editor - Saturday, August 24th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The slogan on the 1960 Soviet poster by Kovalev and Godgold announces that to build your strength for work, the sun, air and water are necessary. That’s what we need in August.   For clear head, a smile on your face, and bulging muscles by September, read the book before the […]

by Editor - Thursday, August 1st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ignore the Anglo-American propaganda now circulating from Kiev that Russia’s military  has suffered a grave  military defeat in the Sahara desert, when Tuareg (Touareg) forces destroyed a Russian Wagner unit and Malian government forces in five days of battle at Tinzaouaten, on the desert border between Algeria and Mali. “Russia’s Wagner […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Mount Olympus, the ancient Greek one, there was no god of Hypocrisy. That’s because all of the gods were, starting with Zeus himself, the king of the gods. It is the same in Paris,  as the organiser of the state ceremony of the Olympic Games has claimed  the performance of […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 28th, 2024
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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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