The Tariff Apocalypse: How Trump Is Dragging the Global Economy into the Abyss
It is Friday afternoon, August 30, 2025. Traders on Wall Street are staring at their screens as the news flashes across the tickers: The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
The Faces of America – Prayer in the Oval Office and a Values Map Pointing Toward Authoritarianism
There are images that could hardly be more symbolic. Donald Trump sits at the desk of the Oval Office, eyes closed, head bowed. Around him stand his loyalists, laying ...
The Crusade Against the Wind – How Trump is Sabotaging America’s Energy Transition
It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
Summer 1987 – Trump’s First Trip to Russia with Ivana and the Beginning of an Obsession
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
The Dismantling of Democracy: How Trump is Turning America into a State of Revenge
The principle of loyalty replaces the principle of merit - and the world watches as the oldest democracy of the modern era tears itself apart. The American Republic does not die ...
Doner-Söder and the Deportation of Care
Markus Söder loves to appear in costumes. Sometimes as a nutcracker, sometimes as Superman, sometimes as "Doner-Söder," posing between meat skewers and food trucks as if he were an influencer of the fast-food industry ...
The Mustang Republic – How ICE Burns Taxpayer Money on Trump’s Showcars
There are documents, as our research shows, that come in dry bureaucratic language and yet capture an entire era in a nutshell. The “Justification & Approval” of the Department of Homeland ...
The Marionettes of Silicon Valley - How Peter Thiel and Rockbridge Undermine America’s Health Policy
Our research reveals how Jim O’Neill, Peter Thiel, Rockbridge and Leonard Leo are undermining America’s health policy. It is a scene that resembles a political drama: In Atlanta, hundreds of CDC employees stand in front of ...
Fire in the Forest - Handcuffs on Duty: How Trump’s Border Agents Arrest Firefighters While Washington Burns
Es ist ein Bild, das man eher aus einer Diktatur erwarten würde als aus den Vereinigten Staaten: Während Flammen sich durch die Wälder der Olympic Peninsula fressen, tauchen plötzlich maskierte…
Chicago between Tension and Uncertainty
Chicago - The city is preparing for a scenario that only a few weeks ago seemed almost unthinkable - the possible deployment of the military in the third largest metropolis in the United States ...
America Without Halt – Chronicle of a Democracy in Collapse
What once stood as a beacon of freedom is sinking into a whirlpool of authoritarianism and institutional madness. The United States, that self-proclaimed city on a hill, is stumbling into a darkness that ...
Moscow’s Invisible Eyes: How Russian Drones Spy on Germany’s Weapons Routes While Kyiv Burns
The shadows of drones glide silently over the snow-covered fields of Thuringia. Invisible to the naked eye but present on the radar screens of German military bases, they circle above those routes where American ...
The Shadow Files - Palantir, the Invisible State Within the State
Unter dem Titel „Die Architektur der Kontrolle: Wie Peter Thiels Datenmacht und das politische Netzwerk Rockbridge die Demokratie untergraben“ – https://kaizen-blog.org/die-architektur-der-kontrolle-wie-peter-thiels-datenmacht-und-das-politische-netzwerk-rockbridge-die-demokratie-untergraben/ ...
Post Stop After Washington’s Tariff Chaos – Mexico Cuts Package Connections to the US
It is news that at first glance may seem inconspicuous, but whose consequences could be immense: Mexico announced on Wednesday that it is suspending postal shipments to the United States.
When the Center Fails: Trump’s Fossil Crusades and Europe’s Democratic Erosion
The American president has never made a secret of his contempt for the energy transition. Now Donald Trump is carrying his fossil campaign into the world with brute force – ...
America’s Justice Farce: The Endless Struggle of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The handcuffs clicked on Monday morning in Baltimore. Once again. For Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30 years old, father, metalworker, it must have felt like an endless nightmare with no awakening.
American Fascism Has a Face
The masked men came at dawn in East Palo Alto. Dressed in black, faces covered, with no visible insignia. It is August 26, 2025, shortly after 7 a.m., when ...
The Cover War - When Vanity Fair Becomes a Question of Faith
Melania Trump as the cover star of a fashion magazine - for parts of the Vanity Fair staff this apparently sounds like the end of the Western world. “I am walking out that damn door,” threatened an editor, ...
Trump, the 600,000 Students - and the War Inside His Own Movement
It was a sentence, casually spoken in the Oval Office, that triggered a tectonic shift within the Trump camp. Donald Trump announced that 600,000 Chinese students should in the future be welcome in the United States.
Washington’s Power Games: When the President Wants to Storm His Own Central Bank
The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: “I don’t think Pete or Bobby ...
The Architecture of Control: How Peter Thiel’s Data Power and the Political Network Rockbridge Undermine Democracy
When CDU politicians repeatedly met with MAGA representatives from the USA in recent years, the media and fact checkers focused on the obvious connections: Trump, his loud supporters, the visible populists ...
Welcome to Trumprea – Washington’s Next Step Toward North Korea
One might think Washington had overnight been transformed into another capital. Not Moscow, not Beijing – no, the model lies further east: Pyongyang ...
The Return of the Stone Tablets - America’s God Delusion in the 21st Century
It begins with ten sentences, carved in stone, that have survived for thousands of years. In Texas they are now to serve once again as a moral compass - not in churches, but in classrooms. Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
The Uniform of Humiliation – how Trump sends the National Guard to pick up trash, militarizes the capital and turns the judiciary into his tool
In Washington, armed National Guard soldiers patrol, heavily equipped, as one knows from crisis regions. Yet amid the machine guns and combat boots, a scene is revealed that could hardly ...
The Showdown of the Desperate: When a Cartel State Meets a Narcissist
The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson - three Aegis destroyers of the US Navy - plow through the Caribbean, accompanied by submarines and fighter jets. In Caracas, meanwhile, ...
The Maxwell Doctrine – A Rigged Game That Protects the Guilty and Lies to Society
There are moments when history exposes itself. 338 pages of transcript, we have read it in full, recorded under oath, were supposed to bring light into the darkness. Instead we are ...
At the Edge of the Rule of Law - Unbelievable - How the Trump Administration Persecutes Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Risks a Constitutional Crisis
The story of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is no longer just an individual case. It has become a symbol of how far the Trump administration is willing to go to enforce its immigration policy ...
From Fanaticism to Bewilderment - Trisha Hope’s Break with Trump
Trisha Hope was never a fringe figure. In the world of Trumpism she belonged to the loud ones: self-proclaimed national delegate from Texas, permanent activist, chronicler and cheerleader all in one. Her book series “Just the Tweets” ...
Trump's Threats - Military Against Baltimore and the Escalation of a Presidency
Yesterday we had already reported that we are on our way to Baltimore - because of the upcoming court hearing in the case of Kilmar Garcia. Today we are experiencing how Donald Trump is ...
On the Second Attempt – How Trump’s Government Turned the Rhetoric of the Extreme Right Into Official Policy
The silence is deceptive. Anyone walking today through the streets of Portland, Berkeley, or Charlottesville no longer encounters the heated demonstrations that just a few years ago shaped the image of American cities ...
Trump’s Obsession – When Fear of Losing Power Turns Into Racist Tirades
It is an old pattern that repeats itself with uncanny precision: Donald Trump feels threatened – and his first reaction is dehumanization. This time his anger is directed at Lisa Cook, ...
Today Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. He is now with his family in Maryland. – But …
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reads like a dystopian novel, yet it is bitter reality and reveals the shocking erosion of the rule of law at the heart of American democracy. While the Trump ...
The Low Point
There are moments when the mask falls and the grimace behind it becomes visible. Moments when even the most skillful PR machinery can no longer conceal what has long been obvious: ...
The Speech of the Psychopath - Trump, Chicago, New York and the March of the National Guard
These are sentences that sound like they come straight from the script of an authoritarian nightmare. Donald Trump, baseball cap pulled low over his face, conjures in a speech the images of Chicago and New York ...
The End of Alligator Alcatraz - A Court Ruling as a Signal for the Rule of Law and Environmental Protection
It was a cool, sober sentence that shook the political power centers in Tallahassee and Washington: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida on Thursday ordered the closure ...
A Presidency of Retribution - John Bolton, the FBI and the Dangerous Instrumentalization of Justice under Trump
It is an image that imprints itself indelibly into the chronicle of American democracy: heavily armed FBI agents carry empty boxes into the home of John Bolton in Bethesda, ...
They Came by Night: The Attack on Memory
It is August 21, 2025, three o'clock in the morning. While Orlando sleeps, the vehicles of the Florida Department of Transportation roll in. Their mission: the erasure of a rainbow. Not just any rainbow ...
The Tariff Lords - Trump’s gold-framed hallucination and Europe’s naive obedience
Donald Trump has once again accomplished what no one thought possible: he has painted himself into the Olympus of the American tariff lords. Literally. In the West Wing of the White House ...
Alice Weidel - The Priestess of the Parallel World and Her Cult of the Deluded
Alice Weidel, the unfit fairy tale maiden, Putin puppet and icon of the AfD sect, has once again impressively demonstrated that she possesses neither class, respect nor empathy: She has withdrawn into the parallel world in which ...
Laugh- and Learn Stories – Today: Trump, the Whale Whisperer and Lawn Prophet
Donald Trump has done it again. He has rewritten the laws of physics. In his world it is not oil spills, plastic, or overfishing that drive whales onto the coasts, but wind turbines ...
Project 2025 – Trump’s Masterplan for the Destruction of the Planet
Weeks of research have brought to light a shocking picture that in its scope even surpasses pessimistic forecasts. The United States is experiencing under the second Trump administration an unprecedented reversal of decades of environmental protection policy, ...
Russian Missiles Hit US Electronics Plant: An Attack on Western Economic Interests in Ukraine
The night once again brought the familiar wail of air raid sirens over western Ukrainian cities, but this time the missiles fired from Russia struck a target of particular symbolic and economic significance.
A Country in the Crosshairs - Jeanine Pirro, Trump and the End of Reason in Washington
There are moments when one wonders whether Washington is still a capital or already a badly written Netflix series. Donald Trump has once again proven that he does not just blur the ...
A Country in Fever Madness - Clarifying and Helping Under Life Threat
America is no longer the country of enlightenment, not the country of free science, not the country that once defeated polio and smallpox with vaccines. It is a country ...
The Invisible Front - How Washington Bombards California with Criminal Threats and the Rule of Law Is at Stake
For a long time, we have documented the growing tensions between the federal government in Washington and the state of California only in passing, without placing the escalation at the center.
The Invisible Sword of Damocles - How Trump's Tariff Policy Shakes the World Economy
Economic reality knows no patriotic slogans, no national anthems and no campaign stagecraft. It follows sober laws that operate as relentlessly as gravity. Whoever ignores them risks not only his own downfall but drags entire economies down with him ...
Vance, Hegseth and Miller Called “Nazis” - A Play of Lies and Escalation
On Wednesday, Union Station in Washington D.C. offered the grotesque image of an orchestrated spectacle that could hardly be surpassed in its absurdity. Vice President J. D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
The Sealed Files – Manhattan Judge Refuses to Release Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied the government’s request to release the transcripts of a grand jury from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
Justice as a Weapon - How Trump’s U.S. Attorney in Nevada Protects Tom Alexandrovich
The acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, has decided not to prosecute Tom Alexandrovich. The decision is striking because the evidence is on the table and seven other defendants in the same complex are being prosecuted.
A Model Nation That Forgets Its Children – How Hungary Became the Idol of the Far Right While Roma Children Go Hungry and LGBTQ Youth Fall Silent
From the outside, Hungary appears to be the darling of Europe’s far right. For Germany’s AfD, the country under Viktor Orbán is seen as a model – a fortress against migration, a haven of conservative values ...
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