Investigative Journalism
It is once again one of those nights in Washington in which democracy threatens to break under its own paralysis. Hours before the deadline the US government is facing a partial shutdown ...
The Federal Republic is reeling. Not suddenly, not unexpectedly, but with the creeping certainty of a train that has long since passed the switch. What plays out in the social media feeds of right-wing politicians is more than political banter ...
It was a power demonstration with prior announcement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had hundreds of the highest-ranking officers of the United States flown in on Tuesday to dictate to them ...
Suzanne Swierc was director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when she wrote a sentence on her private Facebook account that would destroy her life: ...
A plane full of people who sought protection has been turned into a tool of political power games. Around one hundred Iranian men and women were put this week into a U.S.-chartered aircraft that flew from Louisiana via Qatar to Tehran.
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...
A military all-hands meeting is not unusual in itself. But when Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issue the invitation, it looks less like a sober briefing and more like ...
The government in Washington has presented a plan that looks like a fossil from another time: coal is supposed to return to the top of the US energy supply, no matter the cost ...
The worst riots in Portland - conditions that left us stunned. Ten minutes of footage full of cruelty: people dancing at street festivals, tourists with cameras, families eating ice cream. The...
Donald Trump currently seems to be pulling new ideas out of a hat on a weekly basis for how to drive the United States economically into the ground. His latest trick: “substantial” tariffs ...
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
It was shortly after the beginning of the service when in Grand Blanc Township, north of Detroit, the peace of Sunday Mass was torn apart in an inferno of violence. Hundreds of people ...
An investigative research deep in the MAGA circle shows how loyalty became a weapon, how intrigues hollow the movement out from within and how Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk turned into symbols ...
Donald Trump speaks of a “war-ravaged city,” as if Portland’s streets were fields of ruins. Those who live here see the opposite: people jogging along the Willamette River, drinking coffee by the fountain, strolling ...
It was an ordinary Friday morning in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, until the news spread that struck the school system and the community like a shock: Dr. Ian Roberts, ...
In our article "The Big Lie of Portland - How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City into an Enemy Image" at https://kaizen-blog.org/en/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-wie-fox-news-trump-fuettert-und-eine-stadt-zum-feindbild-macht/ we exposed how Donald Trump ...
It was only a post on Truth Social, nine minutes old, but the content breaks every boundary of political normality. Donald Trump declared Portland a "war ravaged city," called on his "Secretary of War ...
At the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse in Tucson, a massive concrete structure on Congress Street, a decision was made on Thursday that determines the fate of almost seventy children ...
It is an image that carried symbolic power for many in the summer of 2020: FBI agents in plain clothes kneeling during a demonstration in Washington - a quiet signal, an attempt to de-escalate amid ...
It is a number that makes you sit up and take notice: 17 percent of Americans today describe themselves as democratic socialists. 83 percent reject this. For decades, the term “socialism” in ...
It is a sentence that shatters everything one would expect from an entrepreneur who belongs to the most powerful figures in the tech world: Peter Thiel, billionaire, Trump supporter, co-founder of Palantir, declares ...
It is shortly after eight o'clock in the morning when traffic on US Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland, slows down. Car horns, congestion, the routine of a commuter corridor
The indictment against James Comey reads like a document from an authoritarian handbook: barely two pages, brought by a newly installed Trump loyalist with no notable prosecutorial experience, and yet a thunderclap.
On September 25, 2025, an incident occurred in New York that is almost unbearable in its brutality - and yet symptomatic of what Donald ...
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has thrown the American armed forces into a state of shock. On the minister’s orders, dozens of generals and admirals from around the world are to gather next week at a base in Virginia ...
It is a sentence that will likely go down in the chronicle of political distortions: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health Secretary of the United States, declared before the UN that an international declaration on combating chronic disease ...
It was not simply a speech - it was an alliance of propaganda. On the stage of the United Nations, Sergei Lavrov declared in a cool voice: NATO had in fact declared war on Russia ...
It sounds like a parody, but it is reality: Two Republican members of Congress, Abe Hamadeh from Arizona and August Pfluger from Texas, have introduced legislation in Congress that calls for the minting ...
In the Rose Garden of the White House hangs not a portrait of history, but a manifesto of power. To the left Trump, to the right Trump - and in between no person, no face, no predecessor, ...
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