Naked and Unyielding - Portland’s “Emergency Ride” Defies Rain, Power, and Moral Panic
It was cold, it was pouring rain, and yet none of the roughly one thousand people on Portland’s Burnside Bridge seemed to feel it that gray Sunday afternoon. Their bodies were painted ...
The Frozen State - Paralysis, Threats, Inflation and the Silence of a Capital
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
The Winter War for Light - Russia’s Attacks, Trump’s Hesitation, Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
The Night of Horror in Mississippi
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
The Vanished Movement - Where Black Lives Matter Really Stands
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
In the Shadow of Law - How America's Judges Are Rebelling Against the Supreme Court
The American judiciary is at a boiling point. In the halls where once the whisper of dignity prevailed, there now echoes the muffled rumble of revolt. It is October 2025, ...
When the Believers Fall – Laura Loomer’s Rage and the Collapse of the Trump Movement
There are moments when loyalty doesn’t break but burns. The outburst of Laura Loomer, one of the loudest voices of the Trump movement, marks exactly such a moment ...
The President and His Standstill - How a Nation Slowly Sinks into Chaos
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
The Odyssey of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia: A Legal Thriller Between Arbitrariness and Resistance
In the echoing corridors of the federal court in Maryland unfolds a drama that exposes the fault lines of American immigration policy with surgical precision. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen ...
A President Chops the World Apart - and Everyone Keeps Watching
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
Trump’s Mass Layoffs - America Dismisses Its Own Peace
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
A Market Loses Its Balance - Trump’s Tariff Rhetoric and the Fragile Architecture of Wall Street
The American financial markets experienced on Friday a rare combination of overvaluation, nervousness, and political unpredictability. The trigger was not a macroeconomic shock but a message from the president ...
Kindergarten of Power - How Two U.S. Senators Faced Closed Doors and a Fence That May No Longer Stand
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
Frogs Instead of Torches - Portland’s Gentlest Rebellion Since ICE Existed
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
The Price of Peace - and of Anger: How Donald Trump Became a Footnote of History in Oslo
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
The Paycheck That Never Comes - What Happens When a Country Stops Paying Its Soldiers
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
The President and the Rebellion That Never Happened - Trump’s Troop Surge in Chicago Halted
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
Journalists Defeat Trump - Court Halts Trump’s Use of Tear Gas Against Citizens and Media Representatives
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Am I Crazy - or the World?
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
Hearing Turns Into a Comedy Show - Judge Puzzled by Beard Incident and Government Tactics
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
The President in the Empire of Absurdity - where CNN dies like a dog
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
Voices Against Fear
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
Pam Bondi’s Open Folder – A Glimpse Into the Shadow Direction of the Justice Department
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
Judge Halts Trump’s Arrest Wave – Federal Court Declares ICE Arrests Illegal and Strikes at the President’s Core
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Trump’s Call to Jail the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
Europe Grills Itself – The World Is on Fire, but the Veggie Burger Is the Problem
The world is reeling. In the United States, Donald Trump is once again sending tanks against protesters and calling it “domestic security.” In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is bombing every corner he ...
How Six Supreme Court Justices Brought Back the Spirit of the Third Reich
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
Lord, Bless Our Lies - When Kristi Noem Prays and Stephen Miller’s Cousin Publicly Breaks with Him
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
Chicago Under Federal Command - Trump’s National Guard Marches in From Texas
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
In the Shadow of Power - How Trump and Thiel Are Building a Digital System of Control - An Investigative Report
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
US Attorney General Bondi stands with her back to the wall - and she knows it
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
A President Who Knows No Limits – A Commentary on the Current Situation
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
A President Against the Separation of Powers - Trump’s National Guard Deployment and America in a State of Emergency
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
The New Hardness - Merz, the "Little-Trump" Principle and the Dismantling of the Minimum
The government calls it reform, but in truth it is a change of system. With the abolition of citizen’s income and the introduction of a so-called new basic security, a chapter begins that ...
The Tariff That Never Came - Trump's Truck Tactics Between Bluff and Economic Self-Deception
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
The Anatomy of a Lie – How Alice Weidel Turns Fear Into a Political Weapon and Deceives Her Own Voters
When Alice Weidel writes, she doesn’t inform – she infects. Her recent claim that “everything you send via messenger, to friends or your partner, will be read by the EU” is not a misunderstanding.
State of Siege - Illinois Sues to Stop Trump’s Deployment of Troops in Chicago
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
The Invasion That Must Not Be: An Investigative Look at How Chicago Is Preparing for Trump’s War
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
The Night a Court Defended Democracy - and a President Crossed the Line
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
Fire on Edisto Beach - Judge Goodstein’s House Destroyed, Family Injured, Investigation into Possible Arson
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
A President Against the Constitution – Trump Defies Court Ruling and Sends California’s Soldiers to Oregon
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
The "Project 2025 Man" Who Is Dismantling the State and the World – An Investigative Report
Anyone walking through the well-kept suburbs of Virginia would hardly suspect that behind a row of pastel-colored houses, built in 1949, in Arlington lies the nerve center of a political radicalization. Russ Vought, ...
Trump’s Campaign Against Chicago
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
Boys, you can turn around now - federal judge stops Trump’s Portland deployment
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
Operation Lawn Care - Kristi Noem and the War on Portland
There are news stories that sound as if they were stolen straight from a parody show. But this is America under Trump: this is where the absurd becomes governance. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...
Judge Strikes Hard at Trump - The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Revenge of the State
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
To the Sound of Star Wars - Charlie Kirk Supporter Led Away in Portland
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
After the Storm - South Shore and the Traces of an ICE Raid
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
Secret War in the Caribbean - Trump’s Bombs on Boats and the Lies Behind Them
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
The Violence in Portland - It Comes Solely From the Trump Regime
A new chapter of brutality unfolded in front of the ICE prison in Portland - an incident that makes clear that the escalation of violence is not coming from the ranks of protesters but ...