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https://johnhelmer.net/By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with The telephone call which President Donald Trump has been trying to make to President Vladimir Putin since the morning of October 7, and which the Kremlin spokesman refused to confirm each day since, was such a surprise when it happened on Friday evening, the Kremlin kept it secret from the Russian […] The post OLIGARCHS OF THE WORLD UNITE AT ELECTION TIME — TRUMP’S OCTOBER SURPRISE PLUS PUTIN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE REVEAL A “SAFE BET” appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Not so long ago, godfearing Russians believed that if they saw a coin lying on the footpath, they should step over it and not look back because it would be bad luck to pick it up. This was not a primitive superstition. It is a rational calculation, my wife Tatiana explained, […] The post WHEN THE POWER IS IRRATIONAL IT’S NOT SUPERSTITION TO SEE THE SIGNS appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When the time of your labour is converted into the profit of the capital which employs you, you belong to the working class. You don’t get time off for vacation. No money. All Russians know this because it was one of the foundation ideas of the communist party state known as […] The post THE RUSSIAN RULING CLASS TAKES ITS HOLIDAY OUTSIDE THE WAR, THE WORKING CLASS STAYS HOME AND TAKES COVER appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with There is nothing phoney about this stage of the permanent war against Russia, Iran, China, and Cuba, not if you are under the US empire’s guns at the front, in the rear, or on the high seas. At this stage there is good news to report, and also some not so […] The post WORLD WAR III – THIS IS THE PHONEY WAR STAGE appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In the memory of nations, a very special curse is reserved for the ruler who wanted peace not war; but was trapped by his enemies, not only into fighting on his enemies’ terms and timetable, but also into losing the war, and then losing the verdict of history of who was […] The post THE CURSE OF WAR FIGHTING ON THE ENEMY’S TERMS AND TIMETABLE appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with During the Americanization of Russian popular culture in the 1990s, the meaning of the word класс (pronounced kl-ah-ss) was dismantled – reformed was the political term in fashion then. The word had come into the Russian language when Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725) borrowed it from the German, French, and Latin […] The post PUTIN SAYS THAT CLASS WAR, IF TRUMP IS RUNNING IT BUT NOT THE EUROPEANS OR JAPANESE, IS класс! appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In the long history of political thinking in the world, the great Russian contributions have been to the recognition of human oppression and the mind required to fight it. Bakunin, Kropotkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin: these names are no longer absent from Moscow bookshop shelves, but their lessons are not taught in […] The post DOES RUSSIA SPEAK AGAINST THE RULING CLASS OF THE WORLD OR FOR JOINING IT? appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with It’s not surprising when JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US, and the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) under Elvira Nabiullina agree on the future and what’s to be done to get there profitably. However, when JP Morgan’s commodities research team – composed of three Russian émigrés to the US […] The post AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OIL BARREL THERE IS NO BASELINE FOR THE FUTURE appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with The 73-year old President Xi Jinping, and 80-year old President Donald Trump said too much to each other in Washington last week. Russian President Vladimir Putin, turning 74 next week, left several things unsaid but meant. Whose voice is of the stronger man? According to Trump, Xi, “looks strong, vibrant, and […] The post THE MEANING OF RUSSIAN SILENCE TOWARDS XI AND TRUMP appeared first on Dances With Bears .
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