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By John Helmer, Moscow US prosecutors pursuing Julian Assange continue to add evidence for the British courts that they are concealing charges in a dummy indictment they intend to change as soon as Assange is extradited. This means the Americans are turning the Assange case for freedom of the press into a cause for British […]
by Editor - Thursday, April 18th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow In February 1989 I started the Moscow Bureau with a first despatch to Ta Nea, then Greece’s leading daily newspaper. That was thirty years ago, a generation in time and several generations in Russian politics. A generation is the time it takes for individuals to grow into adulthood acquiring the shared […]
by Editor - Thursday, February 14th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow Sergei Skripal poisoned himself by accident on March 4, 2018, in the centre of Salisbury. At the time he was engaged in an operation, freelance or official, which was known to the British intelligence agency MI6. The two Russians, Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, who visited Salisbury on March 3 and […]
by Editor - Thursday, January 31st, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow A politician becomes a psychopath when he or she acts without calculating the consequences for approval rating and voter support. The same thing goes for ministers and their advisers who urge military operations abroad which make voters feel unsafe at home. Fear and insecurity aren’t good for incumbents. President Donald Trump […]
by Editor - Thursday, April 19th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow ‘All politics is local’ was something Tip O’Neill, the late Massachusetts congressman and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, used to say. ‘A week is a long time in politics’ was something Harold Wilson, the late British Prime Minister, said at about the same time. This week, you have several […]
by Editor - Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow It’s possible Donald Trump meant the little he has said about who was responsible for the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in July 2014. If he did, he didn’t mean it for long. If he didn’t mean what he said, with the retrospect of two years that comes […]
by Editor - Friday, November 10th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Desperate measures by South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma this week sharpened the focus on what the Russian state company Rosgeologia (Rosgeo) and state banks, VTB and Gazprombank, are doing to arrange a $400 million contract for a new gasfield off the South African coast – and pipe promises of billion-dollar royalty […]
by Editor - Tuesday, October 17th, 2017
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New broadcast by Chris Cook with John Helmer, Victoria, B.C., Canada Listen to the discussion of Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland’s special relationship with George Soros, Victor Pinchuk, and the Galician liquidationist lobby which The Real News Network didn’t allow to be broadcast in the US.
by Editor - Friday, September 15th, 2017
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Podcast with John Helmer, hosted by Tom O’Brien and broadcast on From Alpha To Omega Click to listen. If you missed William Faulkner’s original story, and want to understand the Trump double entendres, click to open the plot notes. Better, read the book. To those who complain this stuff is unreadable even after two […]
by Editor - Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow MiningMaven of London is a leading source of analysis for the global mining, minerals and metals sector. For this week’s interview on what will happen next in the war against Russia, pocket your telephone, and toss your paper. Tune in here.
by Editor - Sunday, December 21st, 2014
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