by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with We will be silent from January 1 until January 15, but not deaf or blind.

by Editor - Friday, December 29th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.    Notified in advance to the Yemeni authorities and the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Monday, General Lloyd Austin (lead image, left), the US Secretary of Defense, announced that the US is assembling a fleet of warships to defend Israel’s port of Eilat, the Gulf of Aqaba, and Israel’s Red Sea shipping route by threatening to attack Yemen if it exercises its Law of the […]

by Editor - Monday, December 18th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with US Congressmen have adopted the unusual procedure of approving by voice vote – no tally — a ban on imports of Russian uranium to fuel US nuclear reactors.  Hidden from the record are the Congressmen who insisted on including a loophole, Section 2, allowing a waiver of the law until January […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 14th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Mistakes are what we are taught to make. Recognizing and correcting them are what we learn on our own. Repeating mistakes after recognizing them for what they are – that’s what a dunce does. In this most intimate of memoirs, John Helmer tells the story of his life, his mistakes and […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 26th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between Guy Fawkes Day and Thanksgiving, a short break to complete the new book.

by Editor - Monday, November 6th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Religious fundamentalists think that because God is on their side – more, that God has Chosen Them to be His People — they can leave it to Him to keep tabs on history, remember the lessons of the past, count the years, tote up the gains, costs,  and losses.   So long […]

by Editor - Monday, November 6th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the war at this stage, the Israeli-American force for genocidal killing and displacement of the Palestinians of Gaza appears to be winning. Not on the ground so much as in the consent of their western allies to supply the logistics, pay the bills, and endorse the morality of the […]

by Editor - Monday, October 30th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with According to the rules-based order of the US and allied states now fighting their wars against Russia, Palestine, Syria, Iran, China, and North Korea,  the enemy states are dictatorships by single men ruling by decree without elected legislatures, imposed by armed forces and propaganda apparatus using by terror methods. In […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 29th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The first Moscow newspaper analysis has appeared of Russia’s current position towards Israel and Palestine. It supports President Vladimir Putin’s public endorsement of the two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians.   Entitled “Why Russia remains neutral in the conflict in the Middle East”, Vzglyad, the Moscow security strategy publication, […]

by Editor - Saturday, October 14th, 2023
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