Filmed - and beaten to the ground
A woman is standing on a public street in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. She is filming. Nothing more happens. An ICE agent has a problem with his vehicle immediately after an operation ...
Three Times Pepper Spray - An Operation That Crosses Every Line
What happened near the Riverside Plaza housing complex in Minneapolis was neither a misunderstanding nor a gray area. It was a documented operation that shows how quickly state power turns into open violence ...
“AfD above all” – How political world power is constructed from a private club in New York
In several reports in Germany in recent days, one sentence in particular is repeatedly highlighted: “AfD above all.” It appears at the end of a paper written by U.S. actors who call for a “new social order in Germany.” ...
This can happen to anyone: ICE throws a U.S. citizen to the ground, takes him away, and then it begins … Greetings from hell …
The images speak for themselves. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara say nothing as a screen shows federal agents pressing a young man against a metal door, putting him in a chokehold ...
The Most Dangerous Days of the War
Volodymyr Zelensky made it unmistakably clear in Kyiv that the revised peace proposal from Washington still contains the demand his country will never accept: withdrawal from the Donbas. Put differently, the United States ...
Kristi Noem Under Fire – A Hearing That Completely Escalated – And In The End Can Demand Only One Consequence: Resignation
You could sense as she entered the room that this hearing would not unfold routinely. Since Noem last appeared before Congress in May, the situation in America’s cities has ...
Hellbound Train – Love, Death and Like
Human rights in 2025 – you fight alone, Brother, be sure of that. The times have shifted, cold with a star above them, and the world sways at the edge of a moral abyss. Everything dissolves ...
Kilmar is free – A state loses control – and two families pay the price: The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the renewed arrest of Melissa Tran
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s name has come to symbolize an immigration system that no longer understands its own decisions. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered that the Salvadoran national be released from ICE custody immediately ...
Trump’s approval declines, Vance’s recognition stagnates, and confidence in the country’s direction remains at rock bottom
Many will now ask how it is possible that this man still has 36 percent approval. The answer is the same one we know from Germany: these are not protest voters, that term has not explained reality for a long time ...
Arrested at the moment of hope - and released again: The case of Viktoriia Bulavina and the question of what this country has become
Viktoriia Bulavina had done everything this state demands from people who seek protection legally. She had fled Putin’s war, entered under a humanitarian program created precisely for cases like hers ...
Parts of California under military administration – The United States is governed by a madman and many are not much better
Donald Trump continues to militarize the southern border of the United States, and this time it affects California. The Interior Department has announced that it will transfer jurisdiction over large parts of the border region to the U.S. Navy ...
Oil tanker seized, jets, drone warfare - Trump’s actions are increasingly becoming a case for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Arauca, Colombia - Donald Trump has tightened the tone in the Caribbean once again. An oil tanker, the Skipper, was stopped by the Coast Guard in international waters off Venezuela, its boarding enabled by a helicopter ...
Wir prüfen Strafanzeige gegen Abel (AfD) und werden diese stellen – Recherchieren, aufdecken, Gericht
Die Szene, die Christian Abel von der AfD heute verbreitet hat, wirkt auf den ersten Blick wie ein diplomatischer Hammerschlag: Andrij Melnyk, angeblich in einer aktuellen Sitzung der Vereinten Nationen,…
The United States Wants to Look Inside People’s Heads – Five Years of Social Media History for Entry
As we indicated several weeks ago based on our research, it is now becoming true. The US government is planning a step that will reorder the relationship between states, civil rights and travel. Anyone who ...
When Politics Stumbles Into the Weight Room – Utah’s Gym as a Preview of What the AfD Would Wish For
Someone in Clinton, Utah, just wants to work out, escape the daily noise for a moment, and suddenly there is a guy standing there who looks as if he left his mind at the coat check ...
Australia draws a red line - and children lose their digital spaces overnight
Australia has become the first country in the world to enact a law that bars children under 16 from accessing social networks ...
Documentation: How WELT turns a fringe show of the AfD into a world political narrative
WELT and Politico journalist Pauline von Pezold are currently drawing a picture that sounds like major geopolitical movement: Markus Frohnmaier travels to the United States, accompanied by AfD members of parliament, ...
Izium spricht weiter – und die Toten erzählen, was Russland verschweigen will
Die Erde von Izium hat lange geschwiegen, doch ihr Schweigen war nie leer. In den Wäldern, die einst nur nach Harz rochen, lagen Jahre lang 449 Menschen, verscharrt ohne Namen,…
ICE-Queen Kristi Noem celebrates her birthday in a Mexican restaurant - and all of Watertown holds its breath
When the head of the country's largest deportation machine sits laughing in a Mexican restaurant, wearing a pink sombrero on her head and applauding “Feliz cumpleaños”, it is not a scandal but a snapshot of the political schizophrenia ...
Ten Days Until Disclosure - The U.S. Justice System Opens the Next Gate in the Epstein and Maxwell Case
The decision came soberly, the struggle, especially for the victims, attorneys and investigative journalists, was a hard and long path, yet its impact extends far: Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ...
A Man Who Degrades Children - and a Party That Sees Its Own Face in Him
Jo Meurer, AfD city councilor in Ransbach-Baumbach, retired teacher, someone who once carried responsibility for children. Today he speaks about migrant and Muslim children as if they were defective goods: “deport”, “worth nothing” ...
The boat, the video, further investigations and a President Trump who backpedals with a ridiculous lie
Donald Trump is backing away from his own promise, even though only a few days ago he claimed that releasing the video of the boat strike in the Caribbean would be “no problem.” Now he even denies ever having said ...
Europe Pushes Back – and Trump’s Ukraine Plan Wobbles Like Never Before
The day in London could hardly have gone worse for Donald Trump. While he loudly claimed in Washington that the Ukrainian president had not read his “peace offer,” a coalition was forming on Downing Street ...
A Sea of Gold – Buenos Aires and the Day When 2,397 Retrievers Made History
Whoever walked through the Palermo parks on this hot December day heard the event long before seeing it. A many voiced barking, an uproar of joy, excitement and pure energy ...
America’s New Course and the Minds Behind It – Europe’s Warning of a Threat from Within
We wrote a few days ago about Trump’s new strategy paper and published the complete documents. For months we have been warning about the political direction from Washington and the roles of Russell Vought and E. J. Antoni, ...
Trump’s Junior Insults Against Ukraine – “Poor Peasants” at the Front
Donald Trump Jr. sat on stage at the Doha Forum on December 7, 2025, confident and arrogant as always, and spoke about Ukraine as if he were describing a country ...
When Children Become a “Resource” – “Only the Weak Will Fail”
Hegseth said a sentence without hesitation: parents should entrust the military with “their most precious resource – their sons and daughters.” At exactly this point it becomes clear how far American politics has drifted from what ...
The '764' Network
The Most Dangerous Emerging Far-Right Threat to Children in Germany: In a digital world where children and adolescents are long accustomed to navigating platforms like Discord, Roblox, or Telegram, a network is spreading almost unnoticed whose threat potential is hard to grasp: the "764" network.
911 Because of Spanish – The United States in a Migrant Panic of Absurdity
A MAGA grandfather in Wyoming calls 911 because the Amazon delivery driver is speaking Spanish, and it inevitably raises the question of whether the country has collectively failed a basic language test or whether too many people ...
From Russia to Trauma – Russia’s Attack on Ukrainian Identity and Melania’s Claim
There are crimes executed so deliberately that at some point one must stop speaking of isolated cases. The abduction of Ukrainian children is one of them. It is systematic, planned, and built over years ...
The experiment that almost fooled everyone
Sometimes all it takes is a well-made image, a few invented lines and the right timing - and suddenly a complete social media wave takes off that no one can catch again ...
America’s Descent into Superstition – 37 Percent of GOP Supporters Question the Holocaust – What a Manhattan Institute Survey Really Shows
The survey does not come from a left wing campaign office but from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank usually far more sympathetic to the Republican world. That is exactly what makes the numbers so explosive ...
Ukraine on the Brink - The Story of Putin’s Winter Offensive, Trump’s Peace Plan, a Nicholas, and a Villa in Spain
The situation at the front is intensifying at a speed that makes even experienced officers nervous. While Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is speaking in Miami with the Ukrainian delegation about ...
Masks, Power and Distrust – how a federal operation in Arizona and Louisiana sweeps away rights and leaves us barely able to keep up
A taco shop in Tucson, a morning that begins inconspicuously, and a few minutes later a commotion that raises the question of how much consideration federal authorities still show toward their own population ...
If a U.S. airstrike becomes a question of a war crime and an admiral contradicts himself more and more according to our research
The image is brief and brutal: A small boat in international waters, a dot in the sea, seconds later a fireball. This freeze frame from a video of the U.S. Department of Defense shows the final ...
America's New Attack on Europe - Trump's Strategy Paper Is a Declaration of War Against an Entire Continent
Donald Trump's administration has published a paper that rolls across Europe like a political quake. In dry bureaucratic language, but with an ideological force rarely expressed so openly, Washington tells the European states ...
The Man Who Told the President His Toy Was Too Big - and Got Fired for It
Donald Trump has fired someone again. Not for incompetence, not for disloyalty, but for something far worse: architecture. James McCrery II, the man who had been tasked with shaping Trump’s personal palace dream ...
A boy, a father - and a separation that says everything about this regime
Yuanxin Zheng is six years old, wears glasses, a white shirt - and was torn out of the world he had just begun to build in a single day. When his ...
A minister under pressure - a video that allows no excuses and an admiral who loses all credibility
The day brought a series of statements that deepen the image of a defense secretary who has crossed boundaries - politically, militarily, and in matters of security. While Senate and House ...
The operation no one is allowed to talk about - and the man who set it in motion - An investigative investigation
The truth about the strike on the alleged drug boat in the Caribbean will never fully come to light. Not because there are no witnesses or because political will is lacking ...
Children banned from Fox News for a year, “because they were so ungrateful.” 🚑 🚑 🚑
Pete Hegseth actually tells people, in all seriousness, that he banned his kids from watching Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Just picture it: a grown man ...
The peace Putin promises - and the truth Ukraine spoke long ago
Europe and Ukraine are making it clear these days how little trust they place in Putin's supposed willingness to negotiate. He spent five hours in the Kremlin with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, ...
Höcke’s Attack on Humanity – and the Applause of the Wrong People
Björn Höcke, in his latest speech, once again showed how far he has moved away from the foundations of a free country. He claims that Germany is not worth defending ...
The Order That Changes Everything – “Kill Everyone”
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth presented the September 2 strike at the time as proof that their administration was acting decisively against violence in the region. One boat, eleven dead, a quick success ...
The Defense Secretary Who Never Should Have Been Confirmed
Pete Hegseth was already a risk during his confirmation hearing, a political experiment that even parts of the Republicans accepted only through gritted teeth. A former television commentator who brought more headlines than trust and entered the position ...
Export Commodity Common Sense: In Weidel's World Long Out of Stock
Alice Weidel suggests that one should "send back" Ukrainians of military age before Germany even talks about its own soldiers. A sentence delivered with such thoughtlessness, as if she were talking about shipments that were misdelivered ...
Trump - the Hurricane Whisperer …
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised Donald Trump for the fact that no hurricane appeared in this year’s hurricane season - a scene that shows how far reality has shifted in the political sphere ...
Barbara, Freedom - and why the AfD should not try to claim her for itself
The AfD Gauersheim is inviting people to a “Barbara Coffee” event and wants to provide information about Saint Barbara. Of all parties, it is one whose worldview stands in direct contradiction to the figure it ...
Negotiations in the Half-Light – How Trump, Putin and a Tearing Peace Plan Make Europe Nervous
The world is watching as talks in Moscow attempt to create a peace that is not a peace. For five hours, Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vladimir ...
When Children’s Characters Push Back – and a Pop Musician Draws a Line for the Government
The Trump administration has instrumentalized many things in recent months, but this time it took on two worlds that normally exist far from political noise: pop culture and ...
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