By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of journalism in Moscow, before there were Vladimir Pozner,  Valentin Yumashev,  Derk Sauer,  Alexei Venediktov,  Margarita Simonyan,  and Vladimir Soloviev,  there was Victor Louis. He was the best known of Soviet journalists, and the richest of them by a long shot.     According to a newly published Swiss […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
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By Matt Ehret, Montrealhttps://twitter.com/ehret_matthew While navigating through today’s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. […]

by Editor - Monday, March 28th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Lord Anthony Hughes (lead image, left), the chairman of the newly appointed inquiry into  allegations of Novichok plots and death in England in 2018, revealed on Friday that a British lawyer has been engaged to represent Sergei (centre) and Yulia Skripal (right) in the investigation he is conducting. This may mean […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 27th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of the world wars, or the last century of wars in Europe, or the wars the US has waged since 1945, it has never happened that what the President of the US says, and what the head of the front-line country which the US is fighting to defend […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with One of the peculiarities of the NATO alliance’s sanctions war against Russian businessmen is that the biggest of Russia’s bank robbers and corporate thieves have not been targeted by the press nor by the US Treasury. Indeed, the more criminal their conduct, and the more money they have stolen from Russia, […]

by Editor - Monday, March 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with In almost a thousand years of military history, the proverb has been a reminder that an apparently tiny omission or detail overlooked on the battlefield can have ruinous consequences for the kingdom. “For want of a nail”, the saying goes, “the shoe was lost. For want of […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 20th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with On Tuesday March 15, the leaders of Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovenia met the Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky (lead image, right), in a room. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left) and Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, together with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and their Slovene counterpart […]

by Editor - Friday, March 18th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with The summit meeting of East European leaders, hosted in Kiev by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on March 15 was fabricated by the Polish government, with Polish secret service agents playing the part of journalists, and fake photographs of the meeting, press briefing, and train journey prepared by […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In fighting the first-ever war of elimination between the US and Russia, the ghost of Lenin is haunting the Russian oligarchs. But it’s the ghost of Stalin in the corridors of the Kremlin.

by Editor - Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nothing is more certain than that wars make fortunes for gunmakers and pandemics make fortunes for vaccine makers. It’s uncertain whether it’s the market, the politics, or the science which advances some vaccines at the expense of others.  In the 150-year history of medical markets, the Covid-19 vaccines have been fastest […]

by Editor - Monday, March 14th, 2022
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