By John Helmer  @bears_with There is a risky way of being an American against the wars that President Donald Trump is aiming to fight, especially the one Trump claims not to be fighting against Russia on the Ukraine battlefield. The risk is that you may have to use words like imperialism, oligarchy, false consciousness, revolution.   […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Russian officials will ignore President Donald Trump’s tweets in order to focus on the main chance. “We do not consider the infantile attitude of Trump as a problem,” an official source said, responding to Trump’s statement and tweets of May 26 and 27. “We consider he is the legitimate counter party [for end-of-war […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Either President Donald Trump (lead image, bottom) cannot comprehend the sequence of cause and effect. Or he cannot control his own military and intelligence operations in the war against Russia. Or Trump thinks he can deceive President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top), authorize an attack on him personally, and later, when the […]

by Editor - Monday, May 26th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In their hour-long Oval Office meeting on May 22, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa. This is the longest,  continuous face-to-face verbal assault on a foreign head of state in recent Trump history. As the lead image shows, Ramaphosa and the state ministers sitting at his right […]

by Editor - Friday, May 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with The war in the Ukraine is a sideshow for President Donald Trump because he is escalating his preparations for war against Russia on other fronts and concentrating his main forces against China on the ground, Russia in space.  This is Trump’s MEGA – Make the Empire Great Again. This is also the […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner.   On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In Soviet days Russians were famous for not smiling, at least not in public. In private, smiling was strictly between consenting adults. Now it is a marketing ploy of Sberbank — the state savings bank run by Yeltsin-era leftover, German Gref – to invite its customers to smile whenever they make payments. […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday, May 12, the United States pushed the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the aircraft safety watchdog, to vote behind closed doors to adopt a secret resolution convicting Russia of shooting-down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Unlike the Dutch show trial which in November 2022 […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In his 48-minute speech in Riyadh,  President Donald Trump was applauded many times for rewriting the past of US wars in the Middle East,  and also the future of US wars in the region, and elsewhere. From the Arab point of view, the outcome of these wars has been the destruction of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with When politicians fight wars to truce or ceasefire, there’s a mistake they often make. That is to give up escalation dominance, escalation control, to the adversary so that he gains confidence  that when he is ready, he will resume fighting in a much stronger position than he was at the truce. In […]

by Editor - Monday, May 12th, 2025
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