Investigative Journalism
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.
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, […]
In recent days, we have repeatedly reported on ICE operations, including in Minneapolis. We will not repeat all of the shocking footage here again. Long before you could see the people, the noise was already there. Whistles, shouts, the dull sound of footsteps in the snow. On a residential street in Minneapolis, more than seventy people ...
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.
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.
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.
Emmanuel Macron found unusually clear words. The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on former British and European officials were aimed at undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty. No diplomatic formula, no evasions. Instead, a sober naming of a power conflict that has long been conducted openly.
With a single post, Donald Trump reignited a simmering conflict and at the same time pushed it to a far higher level of escalation. The US president appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as special envoy for Greenland – a position that had not existed in this form before. The reactions followed immediately.
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:
The Supreme Court of the United States has stopped Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the justices denied the administration permission to deploy National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area to support the ongoing deportation offensive. The attempt by the president to send soldiers into yet another Democrat-led metropolis thus failed.
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.
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.
Many readers are now asking what became of the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected as it is symbolic: their leaders were convicted, many of them later pardoned by President Trump – their structures are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...