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In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...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 ...
Parades in Beijing, Blood in Odesa – Putin’s Victory Tour While Ukraine Burns
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
Another Small Victory – Court Stops Deportation of Guatemalan Children
It is a ruling of great significance, even if it applies only for two weeks for now. Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has temporarily stopped the Trump administration ...
Kaizen to Listen To – Against the Silence of the World
From now on you can also have all our Kaizen articles read aloud to you. With one click on the play button, our investigations become voices that accompany you - whether on the go, while exercising, ...
The Measurement of American Mortality: How Partisan Politics Decides Over Years of Life
Our months-long research and data collection ultimately revealed a crystal-clear picture: the health gap between Democratic and Republican governed states is not a statistical anomaly - it is the result of deliberate political decisions that can be measured in human lives.
Stone Age Drama - Trump Freaks Out Over Scratch in the Rose Garden
Donald Trump has struck again - this time not on the campaign trail but with the full force of his outrage aimed at a freshly laid stone slab. The 79-year-old president discovered a "huge gash" in the limestone of the White House ...
The Silent Death of Hope: When America Abandons Its Smallest Fighters
In a sterile conference room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ira Dunkel sits on a Tuesday morning in August, staring at his screen. The email he has just read contains only a few lines, ...
Proof of Life - Trump Reappears After Days of Silence
For four days there was eerie silence. No appearance, barely any tweets, no golf tournament, no spontaneous press event - for a man like Donald Trump, who loves public appearances like others love ...
Tribute Out of Fear - How Europe Is Now the Big Loser in the Tariff Dispute
It was an image that is likely to go down in history: Donald Trump at his golf club in Turnberry, the sun at his back, Ursula von der Leyen opposite him, smiling politely as the cameras clicked.
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 ...
Trump’s Campaign Against Lisa Cook - How Racism, Misogyny and Lust for Power Shake the Fed
The news struck like a political thunderclap: Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve is such a moment. Not because it is about ...
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 ...
The Intel Deal - a Billion-Dollar Deception
Donald Trump likes to present himself as a brilliant dealmaker. On August 22, 2025, he triumphantly declared that the United States had now "received ten percent of Intel for free" ...
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 ...
Border Control in the Digital Age – Why Entering the US Has Become Riskier for Travelers
Anyone traveling to the United States these days, whether as a tourist, business traveler, or even as a US citizen, should be prepared for a reality that hardly anyone speaks about openly ...
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