By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, Boston*  @bears_with George Bernard Shaw once said if you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they’ll kill you.

by Editor - Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it came to ingratiating American presidents, no Russian leader tried harder than Mikhail Gorbachev followed by Boris Yeltsin. Vladimir Putin did his best to match their examples with Bill Clinton.   Putin was slow to learn, slower to anger. That began in 2008 when Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, broke a […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Investigations by US government officials, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), of Christopher Steele’s (lead image, right) Russiagate dossier have identified Catherine Belton (left) as one of the targets for his fabrications. Belton was herself investigated as one of the journalists Steele recruited to plant his allegations of Russian interference […]

by Editor - Monday, October 4th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There’s a lot to be afraid of in life. Mine has been dominated by the fear of suffocating to death. Compared to that, verbal insults, the headmaster’s cane, my father’s screaming, army camp, police on horses, Harvard University, the doorman at Fortnum’s, bad reviews, Russian gunmen, Georgian gunmen, and threats by […]

by Editor - Monday, September 27th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following last week’s meeting in Washington of Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne (lead image left), the Australian defence minister and their US counterparts, a strategic military and basing agreement was announced between Australia, the UK and US (AUKUS). This is being reinforced with summit  meetings in Washington this week. The declared […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was noticed after the first few years of the French Revolution that the population of goats were gorging themselves and then reproducing out of control. Napoleon tried to cull them to save the forests the goats were taking over, and thereby preserve the timber he needed badly for his navyto […]

by Editor - Friday, July 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Two Dutch nationals, David Petraeus and Sandra Roelofs (lead image, centre), were involved in the US planning of an invasion of the Donbass region, eastern Ukraine, in the days running up to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, when 193 Dutch and 38 Australians were among […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 20th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Here’s a serious question:  how should the European Union (EU) address the challenges posed by the Russian-Turkish partnership? Who better to answer this than a Romanian paid for by one of George Soros’s Open Society units, the NATO Defence College, Freedom House of Washington,  and the Polish Institute of International Affairs […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Each time former Wiltshire police sergeant Nicholas Bailey (lead image, right) tries to advertise his availability to tell his story for the Crown and for the money, he adds tiny details contradicting the official British government narrative that he was the victim of a Russian state attempt to use the Novichok […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Joseph Biden spent 33 minutes speaking at his press confernce to a group of US reporters pre-selected, coached,  and programmed by name, organisation and text of question. This operation made it impossible to allow Russian reporters to attend. Biden’s speech to his press was longer than he managed by himself […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
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