by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Tuesday afternoon the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi “at the Iranian side’s initiative.” The Kremlin communiqué was posted at 1540 Moscow time.  What followed was reported by Raisi’s office at 1808 Tehran time. There was a lag of two hours […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Triumphalism and self-promotion by US alt-media generals (er, colonels, majors, lieutenants) and Donald Trump contribute nothing of value to the Russian analysis of the Iran’s operation against Israel on Saturday night, April 13. That’s to say, analysis, not of who has gained, who has lost, but of what there is to […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 14th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The lifespan of gorillas in captivity is usually over fifty years, while in the wild the average  beast can expect to reach 40, depending on his diet and his success at evading hunters.  Gorillas are omnivores, but by preference they are vegetarians. They don’t eat bananas; they will eat meat if […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Hamas offensive of October 7 caught the Israel Defence Forces asleep at their posts. This  weekend’s drone strike against Tower-22, a US troop base in northeastern Jordan, caught the US Army troops asleep. The response, according to President Joseph Biden’s statement, is that “we will hold all those responsible to […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 28th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For the time being, there are no official photographs of the meeting in Moscow on Thursday evening at the Russian Foreign Ministry between Mikhail Bogdanov, the deputy foreign minister and chief Russian negotiator in the Middle East and Africa, and  Mohammed (Mukhameddov) Abdelsalam leading a  delegation of the Ansarallah government of […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 25th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Not since Moses held out his hand and got the Israelites’ god to blow an easterly wind to part the Red Sea, has there been such a prodigious feat on that stretch of water. In the hours following the US and UK bombing and missile attacks on Yemen on Friday morning, […]

by Editor - Monday, January 15th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a country which is collaborating in genocide, an ancient story of God-ordained slaughter, heroic soldiers, and pitiless blood lust is bound to be required reading in schools and universities, quoted by politicians, even churchmen, and celebrated as one of the greatest epics ever told. Robin Lane Fox, an ancient Greek […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 14th, 2024
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