By Anonymous, City of London* By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Who pulls the plug on a nation’s credit?  For decades, Barclays Capital has been a pillar of the City of London’s support for Israeli government debt as one of the twelve primary dealers whose role is to finance the debts of the Israeli state and funnel […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Yesterday afternoon at the Kremlin meeting of the Security Council, President Vladimir Putin proposed to extend the current strategic nuclear weapons limitations of the New START Treaty expiring in February 2026, for one more year into 2027. This is the time Putin is giving President Donald Trump to choose between his […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump (lead image*) isn’t making the major domestic or foreign policy decisions of his administration.   Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff at the White House, is directing the militarization of domestic policymaking and propaganda; the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon are executing the foreign operations against Russia, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a media blitz this week, Yulia Navalnaya (lead image) has issued a video call on journalists to investigate her fresh allegations that Alexei Navalny was poisoned to death in his Russian prison on February 16, 2024. The anti-Russian media in the NATO capitals have rallied to report the claims.  So […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Chrystia Freeland’s final leap at political power in her 12-year attempt to rule Canada ended yesterday when she fell flat on her face.   Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose push has proved more kinetic than Freeland’s jump,  allowed this to be understood when he offered Freeland the less than face-saving post […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the Germans rolled through Russian defences in the Operation Barbarossa invasion of June 1941, the Soviet commander-in-chief Joseph Stalin ordered the executions of dozens of western army unit and air force commanders. Stalin’s reasons at the time were his suspicion of their treason;  a demonstration effect throughout the armed forces; […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Howdy Doody was the most famous puppet in US history who was made of wood. He lived between 1937 and 1978.   He reappeared on a New York radio station this week in what the White House confirms was this dialogue:  “And Putin, when he looks at you, President Trump, he looks […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On September 3 President Donald Trump accused Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un of “conspir[ing] against the United States of America”.   Four days later on September 7, when asked by a reporter “Mr. President! Are you ready, are you ready to enter the second phase — Are you ready […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Can film impresarios make profits out of Russia warfighting films that demonize Vladimir Putin? Navalny the film won an Oscar, a Lola, a Bafta, and more. The size of the audience who have seen the film remains a secret of the producers, but the box office revenues the film has earned […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to the groundbreaking discussion with Nima Alkhorshid today.   The full discussion paper of Vyacheslav Molotov to the Soviet Presidium, elaborating on the draft “General European Agreement on Collective Security in Europe” and raising the possibility of the USSR joining NATO was dated March 26, 1954. Read it in full […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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