The Parade of Embarrassment - How Trump Degraded the Military for His Birthday
Washington, June 14, 2025 – It wasn’t honors that rained down, but ridicule. The United States Army marched through the National Mall this Saturday - heavily armed, orchestrated, routine ...
Armed 57-Year-Old on the Run
In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, Democratic Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. A few hours later, Senator John Hoffman ...
Deadly Manifesto – Attack on Democracy Shocks Minnesota
It is shortly after three in the morning when the silence in quiet Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, is shattered by gunfire. Just minutes later, two homes in two neighboring communities become the focus of a...
Deadly Attack on Democracy - Minnesota in Shock
It is an attack that changes everything: In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, two elected representatives in Minnesota became the target of a brutal and apparently politically motivated act ...
On the Eve of Trump’s Military Parade: Over-80-Year-Old U.S. Veteran Arrested in Silence – In Handcuffs, Without a Walker
A moment from Washington that raises questions. It is the evening before Trump’s grand military parade. Washington feels tense, like it’s under glass. On the streets, the capital is preparing for June 14 – the 250th ...
A Warning to AfD Voters – Lessons from a Stumbling America, But the Russians Are Still There...
History is a patient teacher, but it demands attention. Those who do not listen will feel. And what is currently happening in the United States should serve as a warning to Germany as well – especially to those who believe the AfD ...
“No King Shall Reign Here” – America’s Day of Civil Disobedience Against Trump
A republic holds its breath. On this Saturday, June 14 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, Flag Day, and Donald Trump’s 79th birthday - thousands of soldiers are ...
rump’s Business Ventures & Failures in Detail
“This overview, developed by us, clearly reveals the qualifications that Donald Trump does not possess – and yet, he is President of the United States. If that doesn’t set off alarm bells, what will?”
Las Vegas: Teenagers Brutally Detained Near ICE Protest – Just for “Looking Like Immigrants”
Las Vegas – It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday afternoon. Two cousins, 15 and 16 years old, were on their way to a birthday party downtown. But they never got there...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Between Bars and Justice
At the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, it wasn’t just the fluorescent lights flickering on Friday - it was the gleam of a deeply fractured nation reflected in the eyes of one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, ...
A Testimony of Faith in the Shadow of Deportation – How the Church in San Diego Stands with Refugees
It will be early on June 20, International Refugee Day. Long before California’s light rises over the federal courthouses in San Diego, priests, deacons, and faith leaders will gather – silent, praying, present. Their mission is neither legal ...
America’s Shadow Defense - How the US Is Steering Israel’s Missile War
The rockets are flying - and America remains silent. At least officially. But behind the scenes of the attacks between Israel and Iran, a very different picture emerges: the United States is already deeply involved...
The Uprising at Delaney Hall - Escape, Protest, and the New Harshness of U.S. Immigration Policy
It begins with a missed meal - and ends in an uprising whose full extent even the authorities do not yet fully grasp. Four detainees have escaped from the federal immigration detention center Delaney Hall in the state of New Jersey...
A President Facing the End of Excuses – Trump Loses Appeal in the E. Jean Carroll Case
Another chapter in the long saga of legal battles surrounding Donald Trump ends with a clear no – this time from one of the most powerful US courts. By a vote of 8 to 2, ...
Brown Shadows Over Anklam – a place that stands firm even when many stay silent
They are not traveling under cover of night, but with announcement. Neo‑Nazis, enemies of the constitution, political relics who portray themselves as the spearhead of a “homeland reconquest” ...
Canada Faces the Storm – Trump’s Appearance as a Global Trial by Fire
Kananaskis, a place of silence high in the Canadian Rockies, will this weekend become the stage for a global political drama. Here, where the wind whistles between the peaks and the echoes of ...
America on the Brink - "The attack was excellent," Trump said - and openly announced further strikes.
Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that there are "concrete military plans to take over Greenland and Panama." Early Friday morning, Israel launched a massive strike on Tehran ...
America’s Leaden Breath - How Trump, ICE, and Quiet Violence Are Shaking the Globe
It happened in broad daylight, on the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles. A white sedan slowly turned into the street, two children in the back seat, a woman in the passenger seat. Seconds later, a light blue van rammed ...
Der Flächenbrand – Wie der israelisch-iranische Schlagabtausch die Welt an ihre Grenzen führt
Early Friday morning, as the streets of Tehran were still cloaked in half-light, a military escalation began that has the potential to set the entire Middle East ablaze. In one of the largest operations in decades, Israel struck targets ...
When the Game Forgets the World – The FIFA Club World Cup (June 14 to July 13, 2025) in a Nation on the Brink
There are moments when football betrays itself. When the game that captivates millions suddenly seems detached from the reality in which it takes place. The summer of 2025 ...
A Blueprint for Fear – How Kristi Noem Turns Trump’s Immigration War Into a National Model – Highly Questionable Justification by the Appeals Court
While California continues to fight for its constitutional rights and the legal tug-of-war over the National Guard deployment drags on, a different picture emerges on the streets of Los Angeles – one of a government choosing escalation ...
California Temporarily Loses Control Over National Guard - Appeals Court Halts Breyer’s Ruling
SAN FRANCISCO – In a stunning move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily halted a ruling by federal judge Charles R. Breyer (Case No.: State of California v. Trump et al., 3:25-cv-04172-CRB) that would have required President Donald Trump
As if the war had come home – Soldiers forced into a domestic police deployment against their will
It is an image more familiar from dictatorships than from what claims to be the world’s oldest democracy: 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines marching through ...
Judge Charles Breyer Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles - Constitutional Violation Confirmed
It is a legal thunderclap that resonates far beyond California: On Thursday, federal judge Charles R. Breyer issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump in the case of Newsom v. Trump ...
Tehran in Flames - Israel’s Strike at the Heart of Iran
It was a night that could hardly have unfolded more dramatically, even in a Middle East long accustomed to conflict. Shortly after midnight, loud explosions shook the Iranian capital, Tehran. Sirens wailed, people ran in panic...
Big Bird (Bibo) Toppled – America’s Culture War Hits the Smallest
It is a moment that seems almost too absurd to be real: The United States House of Representatives is not debating war or peace, not inflation or education, but Elmo. About Big Bird, known in Germany as Bibo, the yellow bird from ...
Trump’s Revocation of Protected Status – A Final Political Spark?
The decision came late in the evening, but its impact was immediate: On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, announced that hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, ...
Handcuffed and Removed – US Senator Alex Padilla Disrupts Noem Press Conference in Los Angeles
What was announced as a routine press conference by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ended in a political bombshell: California Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat with Mexican roots, was handcuffed and removed on Thursday in Los Angeles ...
Tucson in a State of Emergency - Violence Erupts at ICE Protest Outside Federal Building
What began as a determined protest against the rigid immigration policies of the U.S. government escalated into one of the most violent clashes since the beginning of the nationwide wave of demonstrations. In front of the ICE office ...
Inside the Besieged Democracy – Texas Mobilizes 5,000 National Guard Troops
It is a scene more familiar in authoritarian regimes than in a U.S. state: Over 5,000 members of the Texas National Guard have been deployed statewide at the direction of Governor Greg Abbott – days ahead of the planned "No Kings" protests this weekend...
Full Speed Ahead Against the Right to Protest – How Ron DeSantis Is Running Over Civil Liberties
It sounds like a bad joke from a dystopian film – but the sentence was spoken, publicly and without a flinch: “If you’re driving on a street and a mob surrounds your car ...
Delivered as Ordered – The Gommern Scandal and the End of Local Reliability
Gommern is located in Saxony-Anhalt, about 20 kilometers southeast of Magdeburg – a town of roughly 11,000 residents, nestled between the Elbe meadows, farmland, and small businesses. Politically, the unified municipality ...
The Roofer and Reality – When a Trump Voter Suddenly Runs Out of Staff
Key West, Florida – It was a sunny morning in the Sunshine State when Vincent Scardina, a self-declared Trump supporter and owner of a small roofing company, suddenly realized what it means when election decisions have real ...
Resistance from the States - How California, Illinois, and Others Defy Trump's Course
While President Donald Trump batters the federal rule of law with the battering ram of executive power, a quiet counter-movement is awakening in the Democratic-led states - determined, diverse, legally well thought out. It is a civil society ...
Lost Trust – How Trump’s Travel Ban Is Alienating Arab American Voters in Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan – a city where nearly every second person has Arab roots. As recently as November 2024, it was seen as a symbol of cautious rapprochement: Donald Trump, campaigning in a local café, ...
Flags of Fire – What the Protest in Los Angeles Reveals About America
A young man walks past a burning car. In his hands: four flags, one of them Mexican. Smoke drifts over the asphalt, voices echo against the city’s walls. It is June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles ...
The Return of Doubt – How Donald Trump Is Losing the Millennials
Donald Trump had almost won them over – the millennials, the largest generation in the U.S. electorate. Between 2020 and 2024, the Democrats’ lead among voters aged 30 to 44 shrank to just a few percentage points...
Tear Gas, Cameras, Chaos – How Journalists Became Targets During the Protests in Los Angeles
As thousands of people once again took to the streets in Los Angeles on Sunday, there were not only clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement - several journalists also found themselves caught in the crossfire...
A Country in a Chokehold – How Nayib Bukele Is Dismantling Democracy in El Salvador with Trump’s Backing
It begins with a sentence on television. “Dictator,” says Enrique Anaya. “Despot.” He is referring to the president of his country, Nayib Bukele. A few days later, the police show up at Anaya’s home.
The Showdown in California - How Trump and Newsom Rehearse the Emergency
It is a spectacle on an open stage, a clash that is unparalleled in the history of the federal United States. California is on fire - not only in the literal sense, but politically...
America Under Arms – The Day Trump Became a Dictator
The moment America held its breath did not come with a thunderous blow but with a military grip on civilian flesh. No formal state of emergency. No Insurrection Act. No declaration of martial law. And yet: Donald Trump crossed the final line.
Ice Age in the Courthouse – How Trump’s ICE Tactics Are Striking Fear Into the Heart of Immigration Justice
It begins with a courtroom – sober, functional, often overcrowded – and ends with handcuffs in the hallway. Since May 2025, a silent escalation has been unfolding in the United States that few notice unless they’re directly ...
What on Earth Was in Those Cookies? – When the SPD Suddenly Wants to Hug Russia
It starts like a scene from a poorly acted political play. Four elderly gentlemen, all holding party membership cards, pens, and peace-loving pathos, write a manifesto. Not just any manifesto – but a document that threatens to catapult Germany’s security policy straight back to the 1980s...
The Seeds of Hate – When Europe Burns and No One Looks Away
Ballymena. A small town in Northern Ireland, known for its brick buildings, its Loyalists, and its history. And now also for burning houses, shattered windows, racist manhunts, and a police force firing rubber bullets at its own youth...
The Vanity of a Man – How Donald Trump Turns the Rose Garden into a Concrete Slab
It begins with a bulldozer – and ends with a monument to his own overconfidence. In Washington, where roses once bloomed and First Ladies made history, Donald Trump is tearing up the ground...
The Quiet Goodbye – How Khaby Lame Left America Without Saying a Word
He became world-famous without uttering a single word – and now he’s leaving just as silently as he came. Khaby Lame, the most-followed TikToker in the world, is no longer in the United States. Amid President Donald Trump’s ...
The Price of Power – Trump's China Deal as an Economic Game of Risk
What Donald Trump calls “excellent” on Truth Social is difficult to translate into economic terms with the same tone. The new deal with China, which the president claims is concluded – pending final approval by Xi Jinping ...
America on the Edge – How the Protests Against Trump’s Deportation Wave Are Driving the Country Toward June 14
It begins with a chant, shouted thousands of times: No hate, no fear – immigrants are welcome here. And it ends – for now – with a police grab, with tear gas, with plastic zip ties. What is happening in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
Escalation in Los Angeles – Rubber Bullets and Curfews Used to Quell Protest
What began as protests has long since become a domestic state of emergency. On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Police Department enforced the downtown curfew imposed by Mayor Karen Bass for the first time with full force...
Targeted Violence Against the Press? – How Journalists in Los Angeles Are Coming Under Fire
These are images one would associate with crisis zones – not with an American metropolis. Amid the escalating protests in Los Angeles against President Trump’s immigration raids and the deployment of the National Guard, more and more ...
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