By John Helmer, Moscow, and George Eliason, Donetsk  @bears_with Seymour Hersh, a US journalist, has just broadcast his defence of a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to sabotage President Joseph Biden’s re-election campaign before it gets under way. In a German video podcast from Germany, Hersh has made a string of telltale mistakes of […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 19th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Even Leonardo da Vinci didn’t think it was possible. A perpetual motion machine, that is, whose construction had been attempted by Indian fakirs for five hundred years before a handful of medieval European conmen got the idea. Then Leonardo  tried knocking it on its head: “O ye seekers after perpetual motion,” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The media audience has been moving fast in the opposite direction from the reporters and media proprietors. The majority of US audiences, for example, believes all sides of a story deserve to be reported in a balanced fashion. The journalists strongly disagree, however.  The younger these reporters are, the more they […]

by Editor - Monday, January 16th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Set your clocks forward from 1337 and from 1618. We are in Europe’s second Hundred Years War, and at the end of the first year of Europe’s second Thirty Years War. What we have to look forward to next year is an armistice on the Ukrainian battlefield, but not an end […]

by Editor - Friday, December 23rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Australia was the only country in the world to close its borders to its  own citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to force the few allowed to return into police detention for which the detainees were compelled to pay. This dictatorship of coronavirus as a crime was created by Prime […]

by Editor - Monday, December 19th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with To keep western children safe from being misled by Anglo-American reporters on this topic,  here is a primer on what exactly the newly enacted Russian law says; what Russian public opinion thinks; what the Russian courts, judges,  and lawyers have interpreted the law to mean; and what the record of enforcement […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 18th, 2022
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By Olga Samofalova, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When Ursula von der Leyen (lead image) was nominated in 2019 to be Germany’s candidate to lead the European Commission, German politicians from her own party privately described her as too stupid and potentially too corrupt to be risked inside Germany during the political succession […]

by Editor - Friday, December 2nd, 2022
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By Yevgeny Krutikov, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The problem of interpreting the war from the Russian point of view is that the Russian military does not signal its punches, make idle threats, believe its own propaganda, or make money on click bait. The Stavka never leaks.   By contrast, Russian open-source commentators […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with William Browder has been a spokesman for making war on Russia for seventeen years, ever since he was evicted from the country for running investment frauds. The history of those frauds had run for an earlier decade. Lucy Komisar is the US journalist and financial fraud analyst who has written the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Not  One Inch” is the title of a new book by American historian Mary Sarotte after the notorious promise which US Secretary of State James Baker (lead image, 2nd from right) gave Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, and which now has come to its final test on the battlefields of […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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