By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Bernadette Caffarey (lead image, 2nd from left) is the go-to person when high British government officials need a spokesman after a suspicious death has occurred in the vicinity of the secret services; and when withholding of evidence from a coroner or criminal court judge requires discretion, sensitivity, trust. That’s trust on the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For more than three centuries the judges of the United Kingdom’s courts have struggled to preserve their independence from the monarch and the government, and thus their power to rule on the truth before them, not the lies presented by the ruling powers.   When giving public lectures, optimistic, pensioned, and […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 28th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British government has selected a new team trusted with state secrets to run the inquest into the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess three years ago.  The appointments of former Court of Appeals judge, Lady Heather Hallett,  and Martin Smith as legal advisor will commence at a court hearing in […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For the first time, the US-based international media agency Reuters is being sued for lying about Russia in the British High Court. The three defendants in the dock are Catherine Belton (lead image, right); her source, runaway bank robber Sergei Pugachev; and Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, HarperCollins. Roman Abramovich (left) has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with How many times must we repeat: in this war which the US and NATO have started against Russia, force will decide the outcome, not words. So if President Joseph Biden (lead image, centre) and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) are afraid of running the risk of losing the former […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
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By Liane Theuerkauf ,  Munich, and John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between his arrival in Berlin on August 22, his release from the Charité medical clinic on September 22,  and January 16, the day before his return to Russia, Alexei Navalny performed the nineteenth century ritual of walking in forests, thinking. The German term for this is […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 28th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Alexei Navalny believes he is throwing down a gauntlet for the Kremlin either to arrest him when he returns to Moscow from Berlin on Sunday, or to allow him to walk freely out of the airport. Either way, from behind bars as a political prisoner or from his Moscow film studio […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A clinical report of treatment of Alexei Navalny in the Charité Clinic in Berlin reveals that the  atropine treatment by Russian doctors at the Omsk Emergency Hospital Number 1 was the same as provided to Navalny by the Germans. No evidence was detected by the Germans of a poison attack on […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Since the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 4, 1964, off the coast of Vietnam,  the US Government has believed it has needed a lie, voted by a majority of the US Congress, to launch a war. Not since then has the Congress doubted, or the rest of us accepted, that […]

by Editor - Friday, December 18th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Elephants are the truly self-knowing creatures of our world. We know this because when they are about to die, they go somewhere no one else can find. It’s the elephantine way of saying they aren’t convinced they are leaving anything behind that’s worth remembering, so in their last act of will, […]

by Editor - Monday, December 14th, 2020
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