By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with By an accident of the calendar, this year’s Good Friday follows just two days after April Fools’ Day. It is no accident that the Trump Administration has put its Arab and European allies for the war against Iran on the battlefield of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in order to […]

by Editor - Friday, April 3rd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian public opinion is swinging decisively in favour of Iran and hostility towards the US and Israel is growing, according to the latest nationwide opinion poll conducted by the Levada polling group of Moscow between March 18 and 26, 2026.   Sympathy for Iran is expressed by 40% of the nationwide sample; […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The weapon was first used at least forty thousand years ago, not only by Australian aboriginals (lead image, left) but also by ancient Egyptians and native Americans like the Navajo.   Even the Poles are known to have mastered the technology of shaping mammoth tusks and throwing them at people whose meat they […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The survivors of the US attack and sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena on March 4 are direct witnesses of exactly what happened — not only in the hours and minutes before the attack, but also in the days preceding –at least a week — when Iranian officials were requesting sanctuary […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 29th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with No president in his right mind goes willingly into elections facing inflation, war casualties, recession, and hope for investment from his rivals and enemies – simultaneously. I’m not talking about Donald Trump on November 3, the Congressional election day.   This is about Vladimir Putin on September 20, the State Duma election […]

by Editor - Friday, March 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Sergei Victorovich”, President Vladimir Putin said behind his hand to his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (lead image, left). “Do me a favour. When you’re talking to the Iranians, promise whatever they need to keep fighting and deter Trump. But keep it secret. And in public, waffle. Your job is to reassure […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the pre-dawn hours of March 4, the Iranian frigate, Islamic Republic of Iran Ship (IRIS) Dena, was racing eastward on the Indian Ocean. From the southwest, a tailwind of 7 knots and swell of 1.5 metres added to the Mowj-class vessel’s top speed of 30 knots. At coordinates 6.0073 degrees […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A little socialism and working-class patriotism still go a long way among Russians. This is despite the new, carefully laid plans of CIA Director, John Ratcliffe (lead image, left) to make it appear otherwise,  at least in the western media (right).

by Editor - Monday, March 23rd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This website and I have been banned from appearing on Gunners Shot, the strategic and military analysis website produced in Chennai by Lieutenant General (retd) P.R. Shankar which is widely read by the national security and military staffs around Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The reason is that no analysis is to […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is the first book to expose abuse of power by Australian coroners investigating the cause of death when there is suspicion of medical negligence in the combination of popular prescription drugs – widely used benzodiazepines with treatments for non-life threatening conditions such as vertigo, vestibular migraine, and epilepsy.    The […]

by Editor - Monday, March 16th, 2026
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