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by Evan Jones, Sydney, introduced by John Helmer   @bears_with Fascism is the combination of force, fraud, and propaganda which replaces constitutional rule by parliament and the rule of law. Spain under Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and Greece under the Colonels, are 20th century examples in Europe. There are more recent […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If China’s journalists, foreign intelligence analysts, and People’s Navy staff have needed an opportunity to demonstrate, if not to the Middle Kingdom audience,  then to the US exceptionalist public how peripheral and how mediocre American legends have become, Seymour Hersh has provided it in an interview Hersh (lead image, right) […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with An article by Lucy Komisar on the film “Navalny” was republished here at Komisar’s request on February 22. Komisar has requested its removal after she received an email from Diana Schemo, an ex-New York Times reporter. This is a new story of what was famously called, almost a century ago, La […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time in the century of US warfare against Russia, a sitting US president has requested and received a formal ceasefire and  safe conduct  pledge (propusk) from the Kremlin in order for him to visit a third country. President Vladimir Putin signed his authorization for the pass before it […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow, and George Eliason, Donetsk  @bears_with Seymour Hersh, a US journalist, has just broadcast his defence of a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to sabotage President Joseph Biden’s re-election campaign before it gets under way. In a German video podcast from Germany, Hersh has made a string of telltale mistakes of […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Seymour Hersh’s (lead image) report on President Joseph Biden’s decision to destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the Baltic seabed on September 26, 2022, and the involvement of the US Navy in preparing the explosives, has been based on a single anonymous US source with what Hersh calls “direct knowledge […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russian Foreign Ministry has dismissed proposals issued this week in Washington by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary, Victoria Nuland. Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova has confirmed that Russia’s military plan for the Ukraine will not be interrupted or delayed.  “It is not necessary to talk about what […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Ask yourself — in what country of the so-called international rules-based order,  would the rules allow the head of state and the head of government to act together in secret to violate the state’s constitution, creating a secret junta unaccountable to parliament, the press, or the courts? And then after one […]

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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 […]

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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 […]