By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The problem with living in exile is the meaning of the word. If you’re in exile, you mean you are forever looking backwards, in geography as well as in time. You’re not only out of place; you’re out of time — yesterday’s man. Ovid, the Roman poet who was sent […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), who attempted last month  to arrange the escape from Russian capture of Ukrainian soldiers and NATO commanders,  knowing they had committed war crimes. He was asked to explain; he refuses.    Trevor Cadieu is a Canadian lieutenant-general who was appointed […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, is refusing this week to answer questions on the role he played in the recent attempt by US, British, Canadian and other foreign combatants to escape the bunkers under the Azovstal plant, using the human shield of civilians trying to evacuate. In Guterres’s meeting […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 5th, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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