By John Helmer, Moscow Next to prostitution, collecting scrap metal is the oldest trade in the world. Like prostitution, it prefers to do its business in the dark. Because it’s so easy and cheap to turn sex and stolen goods into cash, the expensive capital requirement for both lines of business is in protection from […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 8th, 2015
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By John Helmer, Moscow Polish figures and former officials who have been leading the campaign for Polish financial and military aid to the Ukrainian Government in Kiev may have been lobbyists for Igor Kolomoisky’s PrivatBank, when he was trying to obtain a Polish banking licence. Documents sent and received by PrivatBank, just published in Warsaw, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
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By John Helmer, Moscow Two-front wars in Europe aren’t good for Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolph Hitler don’t need to rise from their graves to make the point to the present German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. But is it her policy to pursue war against Russia in the east, and against Greece in the south, while […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 5th, 2015
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By John Helmer, Moscow There are about 450 think-tanks in Europe and the US currently focusing on international relations, war, peace, and economic security. Of these, about one hundred regularly analyse Russian affairs. And of these, less than ten aren’t committed antagonists of Russia. That’s barely two percent of the intellectual materiel which can be […]

by Editor - Monday, February 2nd, 2015
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By John Helmer, Moscow The report of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on CIA torture is long on details, very short on Russia. For the full report, click. There are just five references to Russia; all are footnotes to intelligence reports produced by several US government agencies for review by them all. Three […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 11th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow Anne Applebaum is one of the advocates of war against Russia to the last Ukrainian – and to the last Pole, too. Until very recently, she proposed reinforcing Poland’s borders with fresh North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces. On March 20, the Washington Post gave her a platform to declare: “we […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
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