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the AfD sect, has once again impressively demonstrated that she possesses neither class, respect nor empathy: She has withdrawn into the parallel world in which ...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 ...
The Lost Childhood – Germany’s Decline in the International Comparison of Child Well‑Being
It is a grim image painted by the UNICEF report Innocenti Report Card 19 – an image that shows children in Germany far removed from the sense of security that still dominates the country’s public self-image...
The Ocean of Forgetfulness - Trump sails without map, without compass, without brain
onald Trump, 79, president of the United States and walking permanent wave of world history, has done it again. In his inexhaustible mission to turn reality into a grotesque reality-TV format, he did not forget the name ...
Andrew Bailey – Anatomy of an American Tragedy and the Collapse of the Last Remnants of Democracy
In the annals of democratic degeneracy, the apotheosis of Andrew Bailey will be recorded as a turning point - that fatal moment when the last bastions of constitutional integrity capitulated before the altars of populist demagoguery ...
The Broken City: Los Angeles in June 2025 - A Journalistic Reconstruction after Weeks of Investigation
The morning of June 6, 2025, broke over Los Angeles like so many others before - golden and deceptively peaceful. But in the warehouses of Ambiance Apparel in the Fashion ...
America in the Mirror of Its Own Distortion - How Trump, Texas and a Political Dance of Death Turn into a Farce
There are moments that, in their simultaneity, seem almost surreal. In Washington Donald Trump leads European heads of state and government through the West Wing and proudly ...
Ritual of Delusion - How a Woman from Indiana with Violent Fantasies Against Trump Became a Symbol of a Radicalized Public
It was a case that, even in the overheated atmosphere of present-day America, stands out like a signal flare. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50 years old, from Lafayette, Indiana, published ...
Trump’s Networks on Truth Social and Intimidation of the Judiciary and Spread of Fake News (2025) – Identified Targets: Judges and Associated Attackers
Identified Targets: Judges and Associated Attackers. This article provides a shortened yet still comprehensive analysis of the targeted use of Truth Social by U.S. President Donald Trump and his extremist networks to undermine democratic institutions, particularly the judiciary.
Trump’s Dangerous Game: How the President Lost Credibility After Alaska
It was a picture for the history books: President Zelenskyy in a black suit instead of his usual military attire, surrounded by European heads of state and government who had rushed to Washington at lightning speed.
The Summit of Illusions
It is a Monday when the world looks to Washington - and yet hardly anyone seriously doubts that this summit rests on shaky ground. At the White House today, Europe’s top leaders are gathering to ...
Trump’s Digital Empire – How Family, NFTs, and Bitcoin Weave a Crypto-Network of Power
What at first glance looks like the diagram of a fantasy role-playing game is in fact an attempt to bring order to a complex web of companies, ...
Trump’s Fear of His Own Capital: When Power Paranoia Turns Into Military Occupation
What drives a president to cover the capital of his own country with soldiers from three different states? The answer does not lie in the officially cited reasons of crime and homelessness, but ...
The Alexandrovich Case: When Reality Becomes a Matter for Trial
A high-ranking Israeli cybersecurity official is arrested in Nevada, the charge is attempted sexual exploitation of a child. Court documents confirm the arrest, police records document the 10,000 dollar bail, his name appears on the ...
When Executioners Dress as Saints: A Symphony of Horror in Five Acts
On a weathered wall in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, an ICE agent chases a dog wearing a Superman cape. The spray can has captured what a thousand diplomatic pens do not dare to write: the naked face of power ...
Alaska: The Capitulation in Real Time - A Commentary
One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie ...
The Eagle in the Copier - How Trump Gifted Putin in Alaska, Embarrassed Himself and Forgot Secret Papers in the Printer
There are symbols that are as American as baseball, Coca-Cola and "God Bless America" at every halfway patriotic barbecue. The bald eagle belongs to them. That is exactly what Donald Trump ...
A Divided Globe - Trump’s Balance of Distrust and the Surprising Islands of Approval
A new international survey paints a merciless picture of Donald Trump’s global reputation. In most countries surveyed, distrust clearly prevails - and yet there are regions ...
Trump Keeps Crossing Lines - Until It Blows Up
As if Washington, D.C., were a parade-ready training ground and not the capital of a federal democracy, the White House is shifting the axis of power ever more toward the executive. The latest signal: ...
The Stolen Generation: Investigation into Russia’s systematic re-education of Ukrainian children in the occupied territories
One morning in 2025, students at School No. 15 in Melitopol enter their classroom. In front of them stands a man in camouflage and a balaclava. “Good morning. I am your new ...
Operation Homecoming - Trump's historic retreat from his own country
It was one of those grand, staged moments in which Donald Trump wanted to show the world that he was still the master of the stage. With the tone of a man who had just changed ...
Reception for the Pariah
Vladimir Putin grinned broadly as the B-2 bombers thundered overhead - American stealth bombers, once designed to keep Moscow’s imperial ambitions in check, now formed the honor guard for a man wanted by the International ...
No Room for the Vice - A Country Inn, a Senator, and a Staff That Stands Its Ground
There are moments when world politics is not decided in conference centers or at summits, but between a beer tap and a fireplace. Charlbury, Oxfordshire, a place where usually the fiercest battles are fought between “bitter” and “lager,” ...
Countdown in Alaska - The hour of truth for Trump, Putin and Ukraine
In Anchorage, Alaska, temperatures on this Friday are just barely in the double digits - but politically it is a day when the thermometer climbs into the red zone. In just a few hours, US President ...
"General cleaning at 10 a.m." - When the backdrop becomes power
On Monday morning, Washington will not wake up but be rearranged. At several locations, signs read: "General cleaning from 10 a.m." A harmless phrase from city sanitation - that is how it sounds. Yet in recent days, the capital ...
Media Criticism: When FAZ holds the microphone for the USA - and Germany remains speechless
It's a remarkable spectacle when one of Germany's largest daily newspapers documents a broadside from Washington - and essentially just lets it stand as is. The latest human rights report from the US State Department attests to ...
Trump Calls Oslo - And Shames the Nobel Peace Prize to Death
Donald Trump has reached a new low point in his political self-promotion - and that says something for a man who already sells Bibles with his name on them. The President of the United States ...
America on August 14 in a State of Emergency: Donald Trump: Beyond Fitness for Office
The images recall a war zone, yet it is Washington, D.C., in August 2025. Heavily armed National Guard members patrol in front of Union Station, Humvees block intersections, and in the early hours of August 14, 45 people are arrested ...
Our reporting shows: The Project 2025 architect with the Nazi art is set to control America’s numbers
At first glance, the news seems technocratic: The president wants to make a Heritage Foundation economist, E. J. Antoni, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the apparatus that measures the temperature of the American labor market month after month ...
Trump's Power Grab and the Anger of the Capital
Washington is, in these August days, a place where the air crackles as if the city were under an invisible high voltage. Streets that are usually shaped by restaurant guests, tourists, and the bustling activity of the capital ...
Germany is not taking the shot seriously
It is a strange reflex of German politics to look across the Atlantic with a mixture of horror and a secret fascination whenever the wrecking ball once again swings through democratic ...
"Retract - immediately": Melania Trump threatens Hunter Biden with lawsuit after Epstein claims
It is a legal bombshell from the First Lady's office: Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden immediately retract statements in which he linked her, in an interview, to convicted ...
JD: "Welcome to the Empire - please leave your credibility at the garden gate"
The Cotswolds - that English stretch of countryside that looks as if someone had soaked Rosamunde Pilcher in lavender and pressed her onto watercolor paper ...
"Make yourselves invisible - until you strike": Trump's most dangerous attack on civil order
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
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