Bought Silence - How Apple and Google Caved to Trump’s ICE Crusade
Apple and Google have sent a clear signal this week - and in doing so banned far more than just an app from their stores. Both companies blocked applications that allowed ...
Trump under Pressure - Jeffries Attacks Republicans as "Unserious"
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
Putin toasts the dead - with technology “Made in Europe” - An investigative report
As Russia sinks into war, the state budget runs deep red figures, and drones from Ukraine reach the Black Sea coast itself, a world of luxury grows in the shadow of Vladimir Putin's palace in Gelendzhik ...
Portland: ICE so bored that they are arresting hardliner MAGA journalists 😆🤣😂
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
Trump 2025: War against fantasy cartels - 17 dead, missing evidence
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
Albania, Armenia, Aber-baijan - how to end wars that do not even exist and Belgium is a beautiful city
The president of the free world lifts world history to the level of a tongue-twister test. "I believe we have settled Aber-baijan and Albania," says Donald Trump, 79, delivering the rare ...
Trump Targets Black Workers - the Black Caucus Calls for Resistance
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
Trump, the Shutdown, the Threat of Mass Layoffs and Nazi Methods
It is the second day of the government shutdown in Washington, and Donald Trump is staging it like an instrument of power. Where previous presidents in such moments tried to keep the damage to public administration ...
The Militarization of American Cities is Advancing - and in Society the Calls for Civil War Are Growing Louder
Sunday morning in Chicago felt like the beginning of a dystopian dream. Federal agents in camouflage uniforms patrolled the streets of River North, one of the city’s busiest tourist districts ...
Energy Before People - How Trump Uses the Shutdown as a Lever for Oil, Gas and Coal
While in Washington since October 1, 2025 the clocks have stood still, the Trump administration once again proves that standstill does not apply to everyone. More than 750,000 federal employees do not know if and when they will be ...
US veterans react with outrage and anger to Hegseth’s words
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
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As of now you can file a criminal complaint for fake news directly with us via our created online form. Fill in the fields, upload evidence (screenshots, links, witness statements) ...
Not with us, you brown brothers of the sun
It takes only a few clicks, yet they can move worlds. Right-wing networks long ago understood that with brazen claims they can poison public debate. A tweet here, a share there — soon false ...
The Attack on the Twelfth Floor: When Press Freedom Ends in the Intensive Care Unit
The linoleum floor on the twelfth floor of Federal Plaza 26 in Manhattan knows many stories. It has heard the shuffling steps of desperate families waiting anxiously for their hearings ...
Shutdown as a Weapon - Trump Plunges the US into Chaos
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...
The internal document of the Oregon National Guard and an investigative report on doubts and reality
Portland – It is a sentence that is hard to surpass in its absurdity: “It looks like a warzone… Unless they are playing false recordings, this looks like World War II ...
Shutdown Poker – How Trump Gambles with the Health of Millions
It is once again one of those nights in Washington in which democracy threatens to break under its own paralysis. Hours before the deadline the US government is facing a partial shutdown ...
Germany – A Glimpse into the Possible Abyss
The Federal Republic is reeling. Not suddenly, not unexpectedly, but with the creeping certainty of a train that has long since passed the switch. What plays out in the social media feeds of right-wing politicians is more than political banter ...
The Dress Rehearsal for the Culture War: How Hegseth Politically Reshapes the US Military - and Trump Exhorts His Generals
It was a power demonstration with prior announcement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had hundreds of the highest-ranking officers of the United States flown in on Tuesday to dictate to them ...
The Screenshot That Destroyed Everything
Suzanne Swierc was director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when she wrote a sentence on her private Facebook account that would destroy her life: ...
Deported into the Heart of the Dictatorship, the Secret Pact with Tehran and Our Rage
A plane full of people who sought protection has been turned into a tool of political power games. Around one hundred Iranian men and women were put this week into a U.S.-chartered aircraft that flew from Louisiana via Qatar to Tehran.
Diplomacy in a Hail of Bullets - How FBI Director Kash Patel Offended New Zealand With 3D Pistols
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...
Meeting of Generals in the Bunker of Vanities - Why Trump’s Summit With Hegseth Is Doomed Before It Begins
A military all-hands meeting is not unusual in itself. But when Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issue the invitation, it looks less like a sober briefing and more like ...
Tax giveaways and coal renaissance as an attack on environment, climate and society – an investigative report
The government in Washington has presented a plan that looks like a fossil from another time: coal is supposed to return to the top of the US energy supply, no matter the cost ...
Portland in a State of War - at Least in Trump’s Imagination
The worst riots in Portland - conditions that left us stunned. Ten minutes of footage full of cruelty: people dancing at street festivals, tourists with cameras, families eating ice cream. The...
Furniture Under Tariffs - Trump’s Next Swing Into the Void
Donald Trump currently seems to be pulling new ideas out of a hat on a weekly basis for how to drive the United States economically into the ground. His latest trick: “substantial” tariffs ...
Hollywood Under Tariffs - Trump’s War Against the Cinema of the World
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
Bed of Lies - Trump's Flirt With the Miracle-Healing Conspiracy
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
Fire and Shots in the House of God - A Sunday that Shook Michigan
It was shortly after the beginning of the service when in Grand Blanc Township, north of Detroit, the peace of Sunday Mass was torn apart in an inferno of violence. Hundreds of people ...
In the Shadow of the Empire - An Investigation Deep Inside the MAGA Circle and Kirk Had Lost Loyalty
An investigative research deep in the MAGA circle shows how loyalty became a weapon, how intrigues hollow the movement out from within and how Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk turned into symbols ...
Portland as a Battlefield of Lies - Trump’s Staging of an Internal Enemy
Donald Trump speaks of a “war-ravaged city,” as if Portland’s streets were fields of ruins. Those who live here see the opposite: people jogging along the Willamette River, drinking coffee by the fountain, strolling ...
The Arrest of Dr. Ian Roberts - When ICE Shakes Iowa’s Largest School District
It was an ordinary Friday morning in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, until the news spread that struck the school system and the community like a shock: Dr. Ian Roberts, ...
The Big Lie of Portland II - Trump's Threat, Fox's Images and the Truth on the Street
In our article "The Big Lie of Portland - How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City into an Enemy Image" at https://kaizen-blog.org/en/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-wie-fox-news-trump-fuettert-und-eine-stadt-zum-feindbild-macht/ we exposed how Donald Trump ...
Trump's Call to War - How a President Takes Aim at His Own Country
It was only a post on Truth Social, nine minutes old, but the content breaks every boundary of political normality. Donald Trump declared Portland a "war ravaged city," called on his "Secretary of War ...
The Children of Arizona - A court stops Trump's deportation plans to Honduras and Guatemala
At the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse in Tucson, a massive concrete structure on Congress Street, a decision was made on Thursday that determines the fate of almost seventy children ...
The Purge - How Trump's FBI fires kneeling agents and rebuilds a federal agency
It is an image that carried symbolic power for many in the summer of 2020: FBI agents in plain clothes kneeling during a demonstration in Washington - a quiet signal, an attempt to de-escalate amid ...
The Hidden Fracture - Why America Talks About Socialism But Remains Conservative
It is a number that makes you sit up and take notice: 17 percent of Americans today describe themselves as democratic socialists. 83 percent reject this. For decades, the term “socialism” in ...
Peter Thiel, the Antichrist and the campaign against the regulation of AI
It is a sentence that shatters everything one would expect from an entrepreneur who belongs to the most powerful figures in the tech world: Peter Thiel, billionaire, Trump supporter, co-founder of Palantir, declares ...
ICE agent points gun at bystanders during arrest in rush-hour traffic - The 8 minutes of madness
It is shortly after eight o'clock in the morning when traffic on US Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland, slows down. Car horns, congestion, the routine of a commuter corridor
The Comey Case – Trump’s Revenge Campaign Against the Rule of Law
The indictment against James Comey reads like a document from an authoritarian handbook: barely two pages, brought by a newly installed Trump loyalist with no notable prosecutorial experience, and yet a thunderclap.
Before Our Very Eyes
On September 25, 2025, an incident occurred in New York that is almost unbearable in its brutality - and yet symptomatic of what Donald ...
Order From Within – Pete Hegseth’s Power Test With America’s Generals
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has thrown the American armed forces into a state of shock. On the minister’s orders, dozens of generals and admirals from around the world are to gather next week at a base in Virginia ...
This He Actually Believes – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the UN and the Attack on Reality
It is a sentence that will likely go down in the chronicle of political distortions: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health Secretary of the United States, declared before the UN that an international declaration on combating chronic disease ...
When Words Become Bombs – Lavrov, Trump and the Staging of a War
It was not simply a speech - it was an alliance of propaganda. On the stage of the United Nations, Sergei Lavrov declared in a cool voice: NATO had in fact declared war on Russia ...
The Canonization in Silver – Republicans Want to Immortalize Charlie Kirk on the US Dollar
It sounds like a parody, but it is reality: Two Republican members of Congress, Abe Hamadeh from Arizona and August Pfluger from Texas, have introduced legislation in Congress that calls for the minting ...
Between Trump and Trump - PR in the Style of the Right
In the Rose Garden of the White House hangs not a portrait of history, but a manifesto of power. To the left Trump, to the right Trump - and in between no person, no face, no predecessor, ...
The Riddle of Joshua Jahn – what the investigations reveal
The deadly sniper attack on an ICE building in Dallas at first glance seemed to carry a clear message. On unfired shell casings recovered by the FBI at the scene, “ANTI-ICE” had ...
The Great World Sabotage - Trump’s Triple Conspiracy in the UN Crystal Palace
Es gibt historische Momente, die die Menschheit erschüttern: die Mondlandung, der Fall der Berliner Mauer – und nun die Eskalator-Apokalypse von New York. Donald J. Trump, Präsident, Märtyrer, angeblich stabilstes…
A Leaked DHS Document Exposes the Lie - While Trump Evokes “Left-Wing Extremists,” His Own Agencies Warn of Right-Wing and Islamist Violence
It is a document that was never meant to reach the public. Classified as “For Official Use Only” and “Law Enforcement Use Only,” it carries the sober title “Terrorism – Potential for Violence ...
Blood at the Border: The Attack on the ICE Facility in Dallas That Destroyed Lives and Inflamed a Nation
The September sun had barely begun to rise over the Dallas skyline when, at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, the first shots rang out, shattering the morning calm with a staccato rhythm of violence ...