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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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.” […]