By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the absence of a mass anti-war, anti-Empire political movement in the US – in the world, in fact  –  journalism is the next best thing. In the journalism which resists imperialism podcasting is the next best thing;  it’s as new to resistance mobilization as drones are to military campaigns. Think […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with At President Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day press conference with Russian reporters he was misheard to say that the Ukraine war is coming soon to an end. Pavel Zarubin, a reporter with  state television with whom Putin often plants question and answer combinations, asked: “You have recently said that the terrorist threat […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Russian, the verb ушёл is in the perfective past tense, masculine, of the infinitive уйти, meaning “to leave”. Its synonyms include depart, quit, walk away, retire, resign, withdraw.   A train which is reported to have left the station continues on its journey. It has not crashed off the track. […]

by Editor - Monday, May 11th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Once upon a time, in 2019, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make “a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country…Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride that probably there has never […]

by Editor - Friday, May 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There always comes a tide in the affairs of Russian businessmen when they think are on to a fortune. “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures,” Brutus famously told Cassius as they sought to capitalize on their assassination of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of that […]

by Editor - Friday, May 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was a British prime minister, Harold Wilson, who once said that a week is a long time in politics. The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who ranks higher than a minister as a Politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party, has just demonstrated that five hundred milliseconds is a long […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 7th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Easter came early this year with good news.   In the first three months to March 31,   exports of fresh Russian chicken eggs increased by 21% over the same period of 2025. Mongolia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were the leading importers. How exactly the UAE landed the eggs is […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On April 29 President Vladimir Trump telephoned President Donald Trump for a conversation lasting more than an hour and a half. The conversation was reported by Putin’s spokesman, Yury Ushakov,  as “in a friendly manner and was frank and businesslike.” It concluded, he said, “on a warm note, wishing each other […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the beginning there was the Word. The Greeks recited it homerically for those who couldn’t read or write but enjoyed a bloody war story in which their side killed their enemies with an assist from the gods on Mount Olympus.   Later, the Jews wrote it down on stone tablets […]

by Editor - Monday, May 4th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the early morning of March 4, Sri Lanka time, the Islamic Republic of Iran Ship (IRIS) Dena was attacked by the US submarine USS Charlotte with two torpedoes. The first destroyed the Dena’s propeller shaft and stopped her dead in the water.  Her position was at coordinates 6.0073 degrees North, 79.8654 […]

by Editor - Monday, May 4th, 2026
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