By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s  unlikely Vladimir Zelensky has read Oscar Wilde’s well-known maxim: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” But for the idea that Ukrainian officials can draw more profit, and lose fewer of their countrymen on the battlefield, by making a flurry of tactical manoeuvres […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 14th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the war against Russia, Penny Wong (lead image, left) , the Australian Foreign Minister, has done more fighting with her feet than with her mouth. Last August 5, at a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Cambodia, Wong walked out during a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The pro-war English writers supporting the arming of the Ukrainians with depleted uranium ammunition* have no brains. The anti-war English writers opposing depleted uranium ammunition have no spines. Has the kingdom of the English ever been so self-deluded on the page and so depleted on the battlefield?   Yes once, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To an alien from another planet, where curiosity starts with naivety, the question is being asked why earthlings calling themselves the state media of Russia report analysis of an attack on the most obvious symbol of their state from two Americans who have spent their active service careers sworn to […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 7th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pushkin House is the only London platform for anti-Russian propaganda which publishes an annual financial report revealing where its money comes from. The organisation calls itself a charity, according to UK law, whose “principal aim”, it claims in its regular filings to UK Companies House, “is to serve as an independent […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A Berlin court judge has dismissed a charge of threatening public order by a speech by Heinrich Buecker (lead image, left) last year for which he has been prosecuted for “publicly approving a crime of aggression”. Buecker  is a well-known Berlin anti-war activist and critic of the German government’s war against […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
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by Editor - Monday, May 1st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with First, the news from the front as George Eliason reports on his tour this week of the civilian  destruction and mass grave sites at  Popasnaya, Kremennaya,  and Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region. Then from the federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, a Department of Justice document making fresh revelations in the […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 30th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war and US war sanctions have reversed the destruction of the Russian farm economy forced during the 1990s by the US “reformers” in the Yeltsin administration led by the recently exiled Anatoly Chubais.   Now, however, under government orders for self-sufficiency in food production, protection from US biochemical warfare […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Once upon a time, one of the leading literary figures in the UK defended Russian culture by staging a play in a London theatre in 1920 and again in 1926. J.M. (James) Barrie, famous then and now as the creator of Peter Pan, was the playwright; the play he wrote […]

by Editor - Monday, April 24th, 2023
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