Dances With Bears

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Doubling down is what the alliance of Russia’s enemies should do now, editorializes the Financial Times, the Japanese propaganda platform in London, pointing at the summit meeting in Beijing between President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping. The alliance “should take confidence in their strategy — even if it will be […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A long time ago, when the Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou understood that the enemy of his country and of himself was the American Empire, and I was a member of his private office, he gave me a copy of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War to read – study carefully […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “I hope I am not revealing any great secret,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (lead image, left) said at his press conference following the BRICS ministerial meeting in Delhi on Friday (May 15). But he did just that: By hint towards China on its voting to approve loans for the Ukraine […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two empires, one system – that’s the idea of President Xi Jinping has asked President Donald Trump to accept. In the official Chinese version of the talks between Xi and Trump in Beijing, Xi declared: “I have agreed with President Trump on a new vision of building a constructive China-U.S. relationship […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the absence of a mass anti-war, anti-Empire political movement in the US – in the world, in fact  –  journalism is the next best thing. In the journalism which resists imperialism podcasting is the next best thing;  it’s as new to resistance mobilization as drones are to military campaigns. Think […]