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A Morning in Little Village – Gunfire, Pepper Spray, and a Child in the Brutality of Operation Midway Blitz
It was just past noon when the first sirens wailed through the streets of Little Village. People ran out of shops, doors slammed shut, and a tense silence settled over 26th Street – the kind of silence you feel when something intrusive, something unreal, begins. Minutes later, black vehicles sped through the intersection at Kedzie Avenue, ...
Documentation
One Block from the Abyss - How Trump Is Rebuilding America’s Immigration Justice. An Investigative Report from Hell
One block away they stand, crowded together, freezing, papers in hand. Men, women, children - migrants who have come for routine hearings, as the law requires. But the law has long since become a trap. Whoever shows up here risks being ambushed by ICE agents, arrested, separated - in the middle of Manhattan, ...
Planet Earth
Fire Over the Caribbean Sea and the Phantom in the Mediterranean, Jordan Goudreau - While Venezuela’s Military Trains Civilians
The Trump administration has, within a few weeks, established a new pattern of power: it defines war so that it no longer looks like war and claims it is therefore not subject to legal limits. T. Elliot Gaiser, head of the Office of Legal Counsel, who interned at the Heritage Foundation in 2013 and later received an alumni award from that think tank, ...
Madness
Faith, Power and Possession Thinking – JD Vance and the Limits of Religious Freedom in His Own Home
Sometimes the state of a government reveals itself not in its laws but in the side remarks of its leading figures. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, on a stage in Mississippi, at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, said one of those sentences that resonate far beyond the moment ...
World News
The Price of Cynicism - How FIFA Gilds Trump's and Its Own Contempt for Humanity While Continuing to Forget the Dead
Miami - It sounds like a satire on the state of the world: FIFA, that billion-dollar syndicate of officials, corporations, and statesmen, has announced the creation of a "Peace Prize" - and intends to present it, of all places, in Washington this December. A place where Donald Trump, the loudest warmonger of his generation, once again ...
EU News
The Empty Land - Scotland’s Lonely Search for People. Germany’s Future if the Course Remains
Kyle of Lochalsh - Late in the evening, five men stand in the hall of Scot West Seafoods. The light is harsh, the air smells of salt and metal. They sort live langoustines, slide them into white Styrofoam boxes, stick labels on them: Lyon, Genoa, Barcelona. Outside, wind blows in from the Atlantic, seagulls circle above the pier, ...
Trump & USA
"The Night of Sixty Votes - How the Senate Ended America’s Longest Shutdown"
It was just before 11 p.m. in Washington when John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, entered the chamber to applause. The last senator whose vote mattered that night had rushed straight from Dulles Airport to the Capitol. Still in coat and scarf, barely shaking off the jet lag, he walked through the rows, took his seat - ...
Spotlight
Hunger in the Shadow of Pets – When America’s Poorest Can No Longer Feed Themselves or Their Animals
There may currently be occasional delays in our reporting - we are also actively involved in supporting relief efforts for people and animals in need. We therefore ask for understanding for possible delays and thank everyone who is helping to alleviate hardship during these difficult days. Sadly, these are the quiet catastrophes of a country ...
Inferno Ukraine
The Staging of Rapprochement - Trump’s Moscow Moment Was Never Real
What yesterday still sounded like a diplomatic revival of the Cold War turns out today to be what it was from the very beginning: another bluff from the White House. As early as Monday evening, research had suggested that Donald Trump’s supposedly upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin in Budapest was never seriously planned. Today it is confirmed: once again, it was nothing but ...
Investigative
“The Moment Feels Like 1939”
It was a speech (see video recording) that will go down in history - not because of its content, but because of its tone. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s war minister, stood before representatives of the arms industry at the National War College in Washington, looked out over an audience of generals, lobbyists, and defense executives - and spoke the sentence that sent a shock ...
US Business
The Day of Reckoning - The Supreme Court Reviews Trump’s Tariffs, and the Ground Is Shaking
It was 10 a.m. in Washington when the Supreme Court session began. The case before the highest court of the United States that day could redefine the limits of presidential power. It concerns the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in the spring – a measure with which he seeks to reorder international trade, ...
Dark America
"A President in a Chorus of Boos - Trump's Stadium Appearance Ends in Resounding Discontent"
It was planned as a triumphal march and ended as a lesson in political reality. (See video footage) Donald Trump, the first sitting president since Jimmy Carter to attend a regular NFL game, appeared on Sunday at the match between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions - and was booed as if he were the enemy on the field ...
Human Rights
Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration - Now the Supreme Court Is Asked to Halt SNAP Payments
It was a legal confrontation that, in its speed, surprised even experienced observers. Within just a few hours of the Trump administration’s emergency motion, the appeals court in Boston ruled that the full benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – or SNAP – must be paid out. The decision affirmed the ruling of Federal Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of Rhode ...
AFD – „No Thanks“
The Invented Proximity – How the AfD Promotes a “Trump Advisor” Who Does Not Actually Exist
It is an image meant to have an effect: two men, two suits, the US flag in the background, and above it in large letters: “Thank you, Mr. Bruesewitz! Social media advisor to US President Trump.” This is how the AfD presents its supposed transatlantic connection – a handshake with the man who, according to Markus Frohnmaier, “played a major role in Trump’s impressive election victory ...
Daylight
Bad Judges, Bad Friends - The Supreme Court Slows Hunger Aid as Orbán Is Courted in Washington
Washington – The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency decision, that the government of Donald Trump may temporarily halt full SNAP payments for November. With this ruling, the nation’s highest court ...
Satire
The Donfather – An Offer That Humanity Shouldn’t Be Able to Refuse
Washington – When Donald Trump speaks, it often sounds as if Vito Corleone himself were running the American state – only without charm, logic, or respect for reality. “The Donfather” rules over an empire of fear, Fox News, and gilded doorframes. He distributes loyalty like family shares – those who nod stay, those who doubt ...
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