By Vlad Shlepchenko, introduced & translated by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The more western politicians announce pledges of fresh weapons for the Ukraine, the more Russian military analysts explain what options their official sources are considering to destroy the arms before they reach the eastern front, and to neutralize Poland’s role as the NATO  hub […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 5th, 2022
No Comments »

By Lucy Komisar,  New York*   @bears_with Here’s a story the New York Times has just missed. US politicians and media pundits are promoting the targeting of “enablers” of Russian oligarchs who stash their money in offshore accounts. A Times article of March 11   highlighted Michael Matlin, CEO of Concord Management as such an “enabler.” But […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In 1939 a little known writer in Moscow named Sigizmund Khrzhizhanovsky published his idea that the Americans, then the Germans would convert human hatred into a new source of energy powering everything which had been dependent until then on coal, gas, and oil. Called yellow coal, this invention originated with […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 28th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In imperial history there is nothing new in cases of dementia in rulers attracting homicidal psychopaths to replace them.  It’s as natural as honey attracts bees. When US President Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke on October 19, 1919, he was partially paralysed and blinded, and was no longer […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
No Comments »

By Margarita Menshikova, translated by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On the day before Good Friday (Orthodox), Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported at the Kremlin to President Vladimir Putin that at Mariupol,  inside the Azovstal steel works, about two thousand troops remain underground, including foreigners. Putin issued the following order: “There is no need to […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 24th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If you understand the war in the Ukraine as the US operation to fight to the last Ukrainian for as long as required to save the Democrats at the November election and conceal the most incapacitated president since Woodrow Wilson’s stroke in October 1919, how well is it going? And if […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 21st, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russians blame Americans, not Ukrainians, for the war, according to a new countrywide poll – and not Americans personally, but the US Government and US officials. Race hatred of Russians of the kind broadcast by the Anglo-American, European and Ukrainian media, is not reciprocated by the Russians towards their accusers.

by Editor - Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Tell me, please, Grandpa,” the little boy asked the Red Army veteran, “what does a war economy mean and how is it different from now?” “Well, Yegorushka,” replied the old man, “our beloved President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin explained just this week: ‘I think commonsense should prevail, after all is said and […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 17th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It’s a mark of civilized people that they keep and honour their old things.   When the things are broken, they put the pieces back together again. In the 19th century rural Americans of northeast states like Pennsylvania did this with their old tablecloths, dresses, and curtains, turning the remnants into patchwork quilts. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Now that the US and the NATO allies have taken from the Russian oligarchs their cash in foreign banks, their mansions, their boats and planes, and blocked the export of all private and corporate Russian capital abroad, Russia is freer to decide how to organize the capital investment of the economy. […]

by Editor - Monday, April 11th, 2022
No Comments »