by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When former president Dmitry Medvedev (leading image, left), deputy head of the Security Council; the Russian military bloggers; and the GRU’s favoured journalist are as silent on Russian military action in Syria as they are at the moment, the signal they are sending is unmistakeably loud.  It is the sound of […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 8th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There has never been a transition between US presidential administrations which has been so replete with new Washington-directed violence across the world. That’s to say, the escalation of wars already under way and the instigation of new ones to the furthest limits of the US empire’s reach. As the Pentagon war-gaming […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was murdered on October 20, 2011, and to mark the thirteenth anniversary of his death, the Russian Foreign Ministry received Qaddafi’s daughter, Aisha Qaddafi, in Moscow on Friday. This is the first open meeting in Russia between high-ranking Russian officials and the Qaddafi family. The political […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 20th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This F-16 flying above Lvov yesterday is not a Ukrainian operation against Russia, it is a NATO operation against Russia. In peacetime, this is as true as the sky is blue. But to say so in wartime is a crime – in Berlin, Ottawa, Warsaw. Wherever you are, once you  are […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was a frustrated Sherlock Holmes who told Dr Watson: “You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” That was in 1890 in the Arthur Conan […]

by Editor - Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The release of fresh details of the fatal helicopter flight on May 19 which killed Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is ruling out bad weather, machine failure, signals interference, on-board bomb or ground-fired missile as the cause of the crash. Iranian civilian, military and clerical officials are […]

by Editor - Monday, May 27th, 2024
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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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