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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with On arriving at the White House, it’s the first rule of American politics for the new president to overestimate his power, and for his staff and appointees to confer that exaggeration upon themselves. The second rule for these novices and freshmen is to declare as much of this power as possible […]
by Editor - Friday, February 14th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Playing pirates on the high seas was once a bankrupt king’s scheme, then an empire schoolboy’s game — first for the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British, and now the MAGA Americans. From the Hollywood films he watched when he was in short pants, Donald Trump did not learn that […]
by Editor - Thursday, February 13th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with For their daily bread, Russians pay much less than the citizens of the US, the European Union, and other bread-eating states in the warfighting alliance. At current prices, the Russian loaf of white bread is cheaper by almost seven times than the American; six times less than the Norwegian; four times […]
by Editor - Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with The last Chinese as clever, as profiteering, and as popular in the imagination of millions as DeepSeek was Dr Fu Manchu. “Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan,” wrote his creator Sax Rohmer, the alias of an Englishman: “invest him […]
by Editor - Sunday, February 9th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Holding hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, US President Donald Trump has adopted genocide as his personal method for destroying the Arabs of Palestine. “Really very unlucky”, Trump declared the Palestinians have been for being the wrong people in the wrong place. “Being in its presence just has not […]
by Editor - Thursday, February 6th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with On January 17, when the Presidents of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the Treaty on the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation, they were standing at the front of a line of Russian and Iranian (Persian) tsars, shahs, generals, ministers, […]
by Editor - Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When Tulsi Gabbard, nominee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was asked by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence what she thought of Russia Today (RT), she replied: “RT News is a propaganda arm of the Russian state government and is not a reliable source of objective news reporting.” […]
by Editor - Monday, February 3rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In our first appearance together on Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid opens the discussion of how Russia is taking its fight to President Donald Trump – the best enemy Russia has ever had in the long US war because he is imperialist in ideology, pathological in mentality, and altogether predictable. (He is […]
by Editor - Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Over-confidence in the face of the adversary can be the death of kings. In the two great battles whose outcomes turned a small, defensive Anglo-Saxon island into an offensive global empire, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Battle of Bosworth Field of 1485, the ruling English kings, Harold Godwinson […]
by Editor - Monday, January 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise For every oligarch there ever was Will gather there for certain because Today’s the day the oligarchs have their picnic. Every oligarch who’s been […]
by Editor - Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
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