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 ...
Carrie Underwood – vom „American Idol“ zur Farm-Idylle, die langsam zur Farce wird
It sounded like an American dream that was supposed to fit seamlessly into the romantic biography of a country superstar: Carrie Underwood, 42, a child of a small town in Oklahoma, ...
The Ultimate Tip for Migrants 2025 - Guaranteed ICE-Proof
Forget fake papers, forget fleeing through deserts or tunnels - the new trend in the United States is called "Epstein Files Camouflage." Simply make a coat out of the endless pages of the never- ...
The Creeping Normalization of the Extreme
The republic is at a tipping point. 26 percent for the AfD is more than a statistical anomaly - it is the symptom of a fundamental shift, the scope of which we may only understand ...
The Hour of the Autocrats: How Putin and Kim Are Shuffling Their Cards Before the Alaska Summit and Blowing All Dimensions
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
Kim Davis before the Supreme Court – The new campaign against marriage equality
Ten years after the historic ruling of the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed same-sex couples in all states the right to marry, the fight over this fundamental right is flaring up again - ...
A prisoner with special privileges - How Ghislaine Maxwell has flung the gates to freedom wide open
It is a piece of news that stands out even in the bizarre world of the American prison system: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted human trafficker for the sexual abuse of minors, is allowed to leave prison - not because her ...
All In - Trump’s Tariff Roulette and the Creeping Inflation
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
An open letter from California – Gavin Newsom warns Trump about the “game with fire”
In a sharply worded message to President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom made it unmistakably clear on Monday that he considers the attempt by Republican-led states ...
The Attack on Washington: When Invented Numbers Become a Seizure of Power and Trump’s Mental State Needs to Be Examined
There are moments in history that burn themselves into the collective memory because they show how thin the veneer of civilization really is. August 11, 2025, was such a moment ...
Behind Closed Doors – Judge Stops Trump’s Maxwell Push and Calls It a “Diversion” – Grand Jury Transcripts Remain Sealed
It was meant to be the masterstroke. Donald Trump, under growing pressure over persistent questions about his ties to the Epstein scandal, pushed the Justice Department ...
Taco, now it’s getting ridiculous – Trump’s most loyal suddenly in the crosshairs
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
The Two Sides of the Abyss and the Specter of American Intervention in Latin America
Latin America may seem geographically far away to many, but the politics of dehumanization know no borders. They have already arrived here, creeping into our laws, our discourse, our normality....
From the Riverbed to the FBI Files – How JD Vance Twists the Epstein Scandal Between Obedience to Power and Delusions of Grandeur
JD Vance has once again shown in recent days how far a politician can go when party loyalty matters more than truth. In several TV interviews, he presents himself as a supposed whistleblower in the Epstein affair ...
Trump's ICE Fiasco: When the State Sacrifices Its Own Rescuers
The email reached FEMA employees late Tuesday night. Management Directed Reassignment Effective August 5, 2025 - a subject line that ended careers and upended lives. Sara Birchenough, a personnel director whose name would ...
The Red Cloak Over the Shadows - and the Dead Travel Along
There are images that reveal more about a society than any statistic ever could. In the United States, sometimes a glance into an ICE detention center is enough to understand how far reality, delusion, and unreality have already merged.
God’s Work, Trump’s Will – How Pete Hegseth Turns the Culture War into Government Policy
There are political gestures that say more than any speech – and that carry more weight in their symbolism than any spontaneous remark. When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently shared a video ...
Memory Does Not Forget – And the Internet Even Less - Trump Defended Mike Tyson
Sometimes it takes decades for a sentence to come back and catch up with its author. Donald Trump is experiencing exactly that moment this week. Just now, as the debate over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein ...
Trump Against the Engines of the World - Why His Tariff Campaign Could Also Shake Germany
When Gretchen Whitmer entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, she did so with a message the President of the United States did not want to hear. The Democratic governor of Michigan, ...
Export Model of Control – How Trump's Political Playbook Muzzles Research and Threatens Europe's Democracies
Our work is not only an analysis of American domestic policy, but also an early warning system for democracy on this side of the Atlantic. When we document how in the United States academic freedom is being shut down ...
From Washington to Berlin – When Trump, AfD and CDU/CSU Undermine Federalism
It is a scene that has long been recorded in the history books: summer 1932, the so-called "Preußenschlag" (Prussian Coup). Under the pretext of restoring security and order, the Reich government removed the democratically ...
Between Tear Gas and Trump Loyalty – The Bizarre Untouchability of Cory Mills
There are investigations that make you want to put your head in your hands. Cory Mills is one of them. In a republic that once prided itself on moral leadership,
Where Russia Once Left America: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska - A Documentation of Hour Zero
Alaska - that vast, icy outpost of America, where the Bering Strait leaves only 88 kilometers between two world powers, will on August 15, 2025, become the stage for a meeting whose historical irony is hard to surpass.
And There Was Number – The Revelation of the Chart Prophet
It was a moment that could only arise in the presence of Donald Trump: a podium, a crowd, a president, and in his hand not the Constitution, not a concept, but a laminated piece ...