Department of War – Trump’s Return to 1789
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
Kennedy: A Health Secretary Between Nobel Prize and Vaccine War
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
The Shadow Justice - How America’s Highest Court Becomes a Political Instrument and Judges Attack the Supreme Court
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
The Green Colossus Staggers - How Trump's Tariff War Shatters John Deere and the Farmers
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
Florida Puts Health at Risk - How DeSantis and Ladapo Dismantle Immunization
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
The Distortion of Reality - Why Alice Weidel Explains the World Without Ever Having Seen It
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
Trump’s “Back-to-School Week”: A Timetable of Humiliations
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
Sixth Court Blow in a Row – Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Billion-Dollar Cuts to Harvard
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
The Missing Outcry: Why America’s Streets Stay Too Empty Against Trump – and the Collapse of Trump’s Numbers
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
The Troop Poker: How Trump Tests His Power Between Chicago and New Orleans
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
Cocaine, War and Stagecraft - What Trump's Caribbean Strike on "Venezuela's Drug Boats" Is Really About
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
The Day Europe Lost Its Innocence
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
The Great Emptiness of the Epstein Files - and How Washington Strangles the Truth
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
The Modern Slave Trade and the Cold Value of Morality
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
A Week, Five Major Defeats - Trump's Power Fantasies Crash Against the Constitution
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
The Man Who Built the Wall of Light and Filmed the State
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
A President in the Dock - Judge Stops Trump’s Use of the National Guard in Los Angeles
It was a legal thunderclap that rolled over Washington this Tuesday: Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to accompany immigration raids was unlawful ...
The Price of False Peace - Why Ukraine Stands Firm While Russia Crumbles
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
Gavin Newsom Sends Karoline Leavitt Into the "Hunger Games" - and the Internet Cheers
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
Historic Trilateral Meeting in Beijing: Kim, Putin and Xi Demonstrate a New Power Architecture – What Does This Mean for the West?
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
The Unheard Silence - Robert Mueller Remains Silent on the Epstein Scandal While Virginia Giuffre’s Voice Grows Louder After Her Death
In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...
Labor Day in Flames - America Against Trump, Billionaires, the Military, and the Sellout of Democracy - A First Report
From coast to coast they roar out their anger. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have flooded the streets this Labor Day. "Workers over Billionaires" is written on their signs, and it sounds like a vow: We will ...
America on Fire - The Propaganda of Strength and the Reality of Weakness
Donald Trump celebrates America as "hot," as a country on the rise where prices are "way down," wages are "skyrocketing," and the nation is "strong and respected again." The images he spreads ...
The Ticking Time Bomb of Deindustrialization – Why Berlin Must Act Now Before the AfD Could Take Over the Country
Germany is at a tipping point. The news of the last few weeks is clear: almost 115,000 industrial jobs have disappeared within a year, more than 50,000 of them in the automotive sector alone, ...
The Undead Keeps Tweeting – Trump Drowns Death Speculation in 42 Rage Posts
Donald Trump is so alive that he fired off 42 posts in ten hours – a digital barrage that would make even Russian troll factories blush. Allegedly dead? Ha! The man ...
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