By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Late on Friday evening in New York, early Saturday morning in Moscow, the New York Times published a report  by well-known mouthpieces for US and British intelligence on the Pentagon Papers. This reveals fresh evidence of what the TNT War of the Worlds broadcast last week reported was the way John Teixeira, […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of the privatization of Russia’s industrial polluters no oligarch has been dirtier, penalized more often,  and avoided court and state regulators more regularly than the steel, coke and coal producer, Igor Zyuzin. No one has more faithfully and profitably lobbied for Zyuzin’s benefit in parliament and government […]

by Editor - Friday, April 21st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The title of an op-ed piece by a Moscow academic, published this week in Vzglyad, bellwether of Russian security analysts, requires reading between the lines. Every Russian knows how to do this since the tsar’s chancellery posted bulletins outside the Winter Palace on how well the Russian Navy was doing […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There’s one way of winning a war while keeping the home fires burning as normally as possible;  and another way of losing a war while keeping the home fires burning as normally as possible. The first way is to stock up on champagne, as they are doing in Moscow. The […]

by Editor - Monday, April 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The sound out of Washington from the Pentagon Papers is what is known in the medical profession as a death rattle. This is what happens when an emperor makes a lethal or suicidal mistake; dies at the hands of his  praetorian guard;  and is replaced by the military candidate. In […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 16th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Marcus Kolga,  author of a new Canadian report claiming “Russian influence operations” threaten the minds of Canadian voters and “digitally illiterate” Canadian children has a Nazi grandfather problem just like Canada’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland. Freeland’s grandfather, Mikhail Chomiak from Lvov, Ukraine, was a paid spy and propagandist of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In observing cat-and-mouse games, the rule of thumb is — if observers of the war in the Ukraine have a thumb — to recognise the difference between the cat and the mouse. On the Ukrainian battlefield, it is now the Russian cat who is waiting for the US, NATO and […]

by Editor - Monday, April 10th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was former British prime minister Harold Wilson who said in answer to a question from reporters that a week is a long time in politics. He couldn’t remember in what week he said it. A century earlier, when reporters were quicker witted than they are now, another British politician […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 8th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Everyone who has ever heard rice go snap, crackle, and pop! knows that eating the grain is good for your energy. At the front, Russian soldiers are eating more rice, on per capita average, than any other soldier in Europe, twice as much as the Ukrainian troops. And the rice the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s an evil place which keeps evil secrets of murder. Leicester town (lead, logo) is one. The ancient and the recent secrets in this place form a line between five hundred years of falsification of the death of King Richard III on August 22, 1485; the delayed coroner’s findings on […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
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