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 There once was a genuine little prince whose story was a fable about the destruction of France and of civilization in Europe. Coming in April of this year, it will be eighty years since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince in safe haven on Long Island, New York.   The book […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 17th, 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 Australians aren’t the only democrats and allies of the US in the war of the worlds – that’s the one against Russia and China. Australian voters aren’t the only ones revealing they want to vote against the political choices they are offered at election time. But Australian voters are the only […]

by Editor - Friday, January 13th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If you pay government taxes, you have done your bit and contributed to the one hundred billion dollars which the US and its allies have spent on the Ukrainian battlefield since the year began. And if you are German, you are going to be paying one hundred billion Euros in next […]

by Editor - Monday, December 26th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Montreal Express is the one Canadian export to the United States which Americans are afraid of. It’s the sub-zero cold wind which can stop cars, twist railroad tracks, cut power lines, cut off fingers and toes with frostbite and kill with hypothermia. On the calendar it starts to blow about […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Fascism is coming to a screen near you. It may already be there on your smartphone, the wall of your smarthouse, or the computer in your lap or on your desk.  Depending on where you are located, it’s Ausfash, Canfash, Greenfash (Germany), Ukronazism (Canada, Poland, Ukraine). A generation ago, this is […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
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Tamas Gergo Samu interviews John Helmer  @bears_with Tamas Gergo Samu conducted this interview by email earlier this month.  Samu, a journalist,  has been a Hungarian parliament deputy in Budapest; then an adviser to the head of the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), a key party in the parliamentary opposition bloc known as United for […]

by Editor - Monday, December 12th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with We are in a state of lawlessness when the law courts defend lies; convict and imprison the innocent, extradite the persecuted; abandon, ignore or cancel the authority of parliament and the constitutional rights of individuals; and issue propaganda justifying killing between states and peoples. The books whose covers are illustrated describe […]

by Editor - Monday, July 12th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the annals of warfare, armchair generals, cyber warriors, and media propaganda may speed up the decision to use force. They never decide the outcome. Today, in Myanmar as in Donbass, eastern Ukraine, we have reached the point where words have stopped; sticks and stones have started. The further away these […]

by Editor - Monday, April 12th, 2021
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