Popcorne Panic

Active Truth Maintenance – A Short Guide from the White House
Active Truth Maintenance – A Short Guide from the White House

No one was responsible. And yet everyone was. Donald Trump explains that he did not call Jeff Landry – Landry called him. Very proactive, in fact. Minutes later, Landry explains that the president called him. This is not a lie, this is modern Trump politics: Two versions of the same reality, both official, both true, as long as you do not listen.

Der Mann, der nichts sieht …
The Man Who Sees Nothing …
Clocky: When Revenge Rolls on Wheels
Clocky: When Revenge Rolls on Wheels
A Draft Called Truth – and a President Who Did Not Publish It
A Draft Called Truth – and a President Who Did Not Publish It

Kaizen News Ticker

December 25, 2025 – Short News
December 25, 2025 – Short News

Schüsse an Heiligabend – ICE gerät mehr und mehr außer Kontrolle! – 2 Verletzte! Am Weihnachtsmorgen feuern ICE-Beamte in Maryland auf ein fahrendes Fahrzeug. Zwei Menschen werden verletzt, einer durch einen Schuss, ein weiterer bei dem Einsatz. Die Polizei spricht von keiner Lebensgefahr, doch der Vorgang selbst ist schwerwiegend. Bundesbeamte nähern sich einem weißen Lieferwagen, […]

December 24, 2025 – Short News
December 24, 2025 – Short News
December 23, 2025 – Short News
December 23, 2025 – Short News
December 22, 2025 – Short News
December 22, 2025 – Short News

Documentation

The Great Disappearance - How Russia Circumvents Sanctions and Takes the Statistics With It
The Great Disappearance - How Russia Circumvents Sanctions and Takes the Statistics With It

In Russia’s customs data for the year 2025, a gap of historic proportions has opened up. Around 180 categories of technically advanced goods have simply vanished. These are primarily electronics and industrial equipment, precisely the goods subject to EU and US sanctions. Investigations show, however, that these deliveries were not discontinued. They were made invisible.

Weihnachten in der Hölle – Wenn ICE die Feiertage für Massenverhaftungen nutzt
Christmas in Hell – When ICE Uses the Holidays for Mass Arrests
Trump spricht offen über Gewalt jenseits von Grenzen –  und Regierungsunterlagen, die uns vorliegen – Eine investigative Recherche
Trump Speaks Openly About Violence Beyond Borders – And Government Documents in Our Possession – An Investigative Investigation
Documentation: How WELT turns a fringe show of the AfD into a world political narrative
Documentation: How WELT turns a fringe show of the AfD into a world political narrative

Planet Earth

U.S. Force at Sea – Trump’s Venezuela Policy Without Legal Basis
U.S. Force at Sea – Trump’s Venezuela Policy Without Legal Basis

Trump likely enjoyed the images. Armed U.S. units, a helicopter hovering over an oil tanker, soldiers on the deck. The impression the Trump regime wants to project to the world, that of a lawful seizure, is false. At the time of the operation, the United States had neither a judicial mandate nor a sanctions-based legal foundation to detain the tanker.

A Dog in the Crocodile’s Jaws – Florida Confronts the Consequences of a Nature Thrown Off Balance
A Dog in the Crocodile’s Jaws – Florida Confronts the Consequences of a Nature Thrown Off Balance
Trump’s Junior Insults Against Ukraine – “Poor Peasants” at the Front
Trump’s Junior Insults Against Ukraine – “Poor Peasants” at the Front
Order to Kill? How Trump’s Boat War Suddenly Becomes a Question of War Crimes
Order to Kill? How Trump’s Boat War Suddenly Becomes a Question of War Crimes

Madness

The New Freedom of Expression of Power
The New Freedom of Expression of Power

Washington builds a wall, Trump likes doing that, and calls it principle. From one day to the next, several European actors are deemed unwelcome. The accusation: “censorship.” What is meant is the European practice of not accepting hate, threats, and targeted disinformation on major platforms as an unavoidable accompanying phenomenon.

Redacted Truth – How the Justice Department Promises Transparency and Fails to Deliver
Redacted Truth – How the Justice Department Promises Transparency and Fails to Deliver
The Return of the Whistle and Warning Notes
The Return of the Whistle and Warning Notes
Das kann jedem passieren: ICE wirft US-Bürger zu Boden, nimmt ihn mit und dann geht es los … Grüße aus der Hölle …
This can happen to anyone: ICE throws a U.S. citizen to the ground, takes him away, and then it begins … Greetings from hell …

Trump & USA

Wenn ein Werk schließt, zerbricht eine Stadt – Lexington und das Resultat von Trumps Politik – Tausende verlieren ihre Arbeit im Januar 2026
When a plant closes, a city breaks apart – Lexington and the result of Trump’s policies – Thousands lose their jobs in January 2026

The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades. Tyson Foods’ beef plant is closing. 3,200 people are losing their jobs. In a town of around 11,000 residents, this is not an ordinary reduction in staff, but a rupture that reaches everything:

Pam Bondi – Im Namen der Transparenz
Pam Bondi – In the Name of Transparency
Nachbetrachtung: Trump hat die Persönlichkeit eines Alkoholikers – Susie Wiles sprach aus, was sonst hinter verschlossenen Türen bleibt, aber …
Afterthought: Trump has the personality of an alcoholic – Susie Wiles said out loud what usually remains behind closed doors, but …
Kristi Noem Under Fire – A Hearing That Completely Escalated – And In The End Can Demand Only One Consequence: Resignation
Kristi Noem Under Fire – A Hearing That Completely Escalated – And In The End Can Demand Only One Consequence: Resignation

Inferno Ukraine

A Peace Plan Without Takers - Why Moscow Is Likely to Reject the New U.S.-Ukrainian Proposal
A Peace Plan Without Takers - Why Moscow Is Likely to Reject the New U.S.-Ukrainian Proposal

When Volodymyr Zelensky presented the new 20-point peace plan on Tuesday, it was immediately clear that this was not simply an addendum, but a deliberate break with a draft that in the fall had looked very much like a capitulation. At that time, Ukraine would have been forced to cede territory and permanently rule out NATO membership. The newly presented plan is different.

EU Instead of NATO – Moscow’s New Signal, Washington’s Pressure, and Zelenskyy’s Narrow Corridor
EU Instead of NATO – Moscow’s New Signal, Washington’s Pressure, and Zelenskyy’s Narrow Corridor
The Most Dangerous Days of the War
The Most Dangerous Days of the War
Izium spricht weiter – und die Toten erzählen, was Russland verschweigen will
Izium spricht weiter – und die Toten erzählen, was Russland verschweigen will

Investigative

He wished Merry Christmas and meant war
He wished Merry Christmas and meant war

Donald Trump did not sit by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, but at his preferred altar: Truth Social. While others lit candles, he lit words. A Christmas greeting, 101 words long, filled with resentment, self-pity, and the firm belief that the Christ Child votes along party lines. “Merry Christmas,” he wrote, and one knew immediately: this was going to get uncomfortable.

A Meeting Without Protocol - and: The Banality of Evil - How a Schoolyard Dispute Sparked the Epstein Scandal
A Meeting Without Protocol - and: The Banality of Evil - How a Schoolyard Dispute Sparked the Epstein Scandal
The Visible Break - How the MAGA Movement Is Tearing Itself Apart on an Open Stage
The Visible Break - How the MAGA Movement Is Tearing Itself Apart on an Open Stage
From our Russia investigations: The invisible weak points - why Russia’s missiles depend on EU and U.S. key chemicals
From our Russia investigations: The invisible weak points - why Russia’s missiles depend on EU and U.S. key chemicals

Dark America

Erst die Drohung, dann die Verachtung – Turning Point AmericaFest als Vorbote für viel mehr …
First the Threat, Then the Contempt – Turning Point AmericaFest as a Harbinger of Much More …

At AmericaFest, nothing was accidental, nothing loosely strung together. First Mike Johnson took the stage and made clear what this was about. He declared that a loss of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives would immediately lead to the impeachment of Donald Trump. No reference to democratic procedures, no context, no explanation. It was a threat. Elections did not appear as an expression ...

Was die neuen Epstein-Fotos nicht erzählen …
What the New Epstein Photos Do Not Tell Us …
Filmed - and beaten to the ground
Filmed - and beaten to the ground
When Politics Stumbles Into the Weight Room – Utah’s Gym as a Preview of What the AfD Would Wish For
When Politics Stumbles Into the Weight Room – Utah’s Gym as a Preview of What the AfD Would Wish For

Human Rights

Die Geduld der Richterin ist vollkommen erschöpft – Warum Kilmar Abrego Garcia frei bleibt …
The judge’s patience is completely exhausted – Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains free …

The courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, filled with tension, mistrust, and an unusually candid judge. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is allowed to remain free. Not because his case is simple, but because it is the opposite. The presiding federal judge, Paula Xinis, has decided to keep the existing protective order in place. This means that the U.S. immigration authority Immigration and Customs Enforcement is, for the time being, barred from taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...

Venezuela Calls the Security Council – Caracas Speaks of U.S. Colonial Arrogance
Venezuela Calls the Security Council – Caracas Speaks of U.S. Colonial Arrogance
Ontarios Premier Doug Ford: „Diese Art von Politik verdient keinen Besuch“ – und widerspricht Trump öffentlich
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “This kind of politics deserves no visit” – and publicly contradicts Trump
Masks, Power and Distrust – how a federal operation in Arizona and Louisiana sweeps away rights and leaves us barely able to keep up
Masks, Power and Distrust – how a federal operation in Arizona and Louisiana sweeps away rights and leaves us barely able to keep up

AFD – „No Thanks“

ESN Parties and How Far-Right Extremists Lure Young People Through Student Parties
ESN Parties and How Far-Right Extremists Lure Young People Through Student Parties

In Berlin, the same invitation has been circulating in some feeds for weeks: “Europe Vibes”, “first ESN student party”, champagne glasses, young faces, an EU lawmaker giving a greeting. Anyone who studies or is here for an exchange semester automatically thinks of what “ESN” has meant for years: Erasmus Student Network, international contacts, buddy programs, parties where Spanish, Polish, German ...

“AfD above all” – How political world power is constructed from a private club in New York
“AfD above all” – How political world power is constructed from a private club in New York
Wir prüfen Strafanzeige gegen Abel (AfD) und werden diese stellen – Recherchieren, aufdecken, Gericht
Wir prüfen Strafanzeige gegen Abel (AfD) und werden diese stellen – Recherchieren, aufdecken, Gericht
A Man Who Degrades Children - and a Party That Sees Its Own Face in Him
A Man Who Degrades Children - and a Party That Sees Its Own Face in Him

Daylight

Der Brief, der blieb …
The Letter That Remained …

It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death. The envelope was processed, stamped, returned. Not delivered. Administrative language for a simple procedure: The recipient was no longer registered at this address. The letter remained.

Trump Renames the Kennedy Center After Himself
Trump Renames the Kennedy Center After Himself
Die bittere Wahrheit hinter Trumps „Krieg gegen die Drogen“
The Bitter Truth Behind Trump's "War on Drugs"
Parts of California under military administration – The United States is governed by a madman and many are not much better
Parts of California under military administration – The United States is governed by a madman and many are not much better

Satire

„Wir haben geliefert“ – Ein exclusives Gespräch nach der Veröffentlichung der Epstein-Akten
„We Have Delivered“ – An Exclusive Conversation After the Release of the Epstein Files

The Kaizen Blog had the exclusive opportunity to speak with an investigator who was closely involved from the very beginning in both the investigation and the now published version of the Epstein files. He was at the table when decisions were made about what would remain visible and what would disappear. The documents now in the public domain bear his handwriting – not in name, but in outcome ...

Better Than Washington and Lincoln
Better Than Washington and Lincoln
The Man Who Told the President His Toy Was Too Big - and Got Fired for It
The Man Who Told the President His Toy Was Too Big - and Got Fired for It
Trump – der Hurrikan-Flüsterer …
Trump - the Hurricane Whisperer …
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