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 The new finance minister of Ukraine, Natalie Jaresko, may have replaced her US citizenship with Ukrainian at the start of this week, but her employer continued to be the US Government, long after she claims she left the State Department. US court and other records reveal that Jaresko has been the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow When an elephant means to put his foot down on something with the objective of crushing it, a German speaker uses the same word as in English – trample (trampeln). When the intention and the outcome are emphatic, an English-speaker can say trample underfoot. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel (lead image) […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow When Alfred Sloan ran General Motors in Detroit, he supplied Nazi Germany with engine technology, assembly lines, and working capital for Messerschmidt and Junker warplanes, Panzer tanks, troop and gun transports, along with land mines and torpedo detonators. The Germans said they couldn’t have invaded Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway, France, or […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow From Arseny Yatseniuk’s point of view, the US election results could not have been worse for the not-Ukrainian-prime-minister-yet. Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president defeated when a minority of Ukrainians went to their ballot boxes on October 26, the US outcome is no better. This is because exit polls are reporting the […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 6th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow Fakery in allegiance to the truth. That was how Henry Luce, the proprietor of Time, Life, and the March of Time newsreels, described his coverage of the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Luce’s fakery even won an Oscar that year for “revolutionizing” the newsreel medium. Beside Luce’s photographer in Spain that […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow The defeat by Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk of President Petro Poroshenko in the party voting at Sunday’s Ukrainian parliamentary election reveals a shift of voter sentiment no pollster predicted beforehand – neither the independent Ukrainian polling organizations in Kiev, nor the US Government-funded surveys. On the other hand, the independent Ukrainian […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow The outcome of Sunday’s Ukrainian parliamentary election is likely to be a majority of deputies in favour of war in the east, and against Russia. This is because the Ukrainian economy is ruined, so for the foreseeable future, war draws US (IMF, World Bank) and European Union cash stipends which are […]

by Editor - Friday, October 24th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow Voter polling by the US Agency for Intrnational Development in Ukraine reveals that if the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk fail to cast votes, the outcome will be a hung parliament. President Petro Poroshenko’s (lead image, left) bloc, according to the US- funded polls taken in September, will lead […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow A Washington think-tank, funded by the US Government, has discovered that at least half of all Ukrainians think that not enough force has been used to put down the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Even more Ukrainians express confidence in the military – 66% in the pro-Kiev volunteer battalions, and 76% in […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
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