Elon Musk and the Great Misunderstanding – A Balance Sheet in Ruins
He came to Washington wielding a chainsaw – both metaphorically and politically. Elon Musk, multi-entrepreneur, billionaire, and self-declared government reformer, entered the political stage with the swagger of a man who believes everything can be solved ...
"Where Words Fail – The New Face of Inhumanity"
An article about the four-year-old girl Trump wants to throw out of the United States. There are stories that make even seasoned observers stop in their tracks. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel like you're watching the wrong movie...
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A New Exclusion – How Marco Rubio, Backed by Trump, Is Targeting Chinese Students
It was a statement with political explosiveness – and it was made not in Beijing, but in Washington: On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would begin revoking the visas of Chinese ...
And He Lies and Lies and Lies – Trump’s Latest Fantasy About the Pulitzer Prize
Donald Trump has done it again. In a furious Truth Social post on May 29, 2025, the U.S. President declared a "total victory" in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board. His claim? That a Florida appellate court had ruled the Pulitzer Prize ...
"No Deals"
Despite public announcements and media staging of “deals” under President Trump, as of May 28, 2025, no new, fully negotiated, and legally binding trade agreements have entered into force.
“Tiny Hands – Giant Bribes” – The Quiet Protest Above the Highway
Boston, May 2025 – It was an image that lingered: Above a busy bridge in Boston, a banner fluttered in the wind. The words: “TINY HANDS – GIANT BRIBES”, flanked ...
Five Steps Back - How America’s Supreme Court Sacrificed Environmental Protection for Oil
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
Judge Versus President – How Harvard Is Resisting Trump’s Assault on International Students
It was a ruling spoken softly – yet its impact echoes loudly: On May 29, 2025, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from banning Harvard University from ...
The Anointed One – Trump’s Divine Delusion and the Endgame of Political Theater
Am 29. Mai 2025, um 4:32 Uhr morgens, postete der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten ein Bild, das in seiner Symbolkraft kaum überboten werden kann – und in seiner ideologischen Tiefe erschüttert. Donald J. Trump, in schwarzem ...
The President and the Chicken – Trump’s Fragile Ego Collides with Market Reality
– Trump reacts angrily to his new Wall Street nickname: “Don’t ever say that again.” - It began with a sentence, spoken calmly, analytically, yet politically explosive. A reporter asked the President of the United States what he thought about Wall
Trump’s Iron Apparatus – How ICE Is Being Transformed into a Deportation Machine
It begins with a personnel decision, but it stands for far more than mere administrative reshuffling. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), the core of Donald Trump’s massive deportation policy, is undergoing a profound restructuring – and ...
Judges Block Trump’s Tariff War - US Trade Court Sets Limits on Presidential Emergency Powers
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
When the Rescuer Is Declared the Enemy – How the AfD Turns Humanity into a Threat, or: Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, the Export Commodity of Ethnonationalist Suburbia
Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, ...
Canada Between Two Worlds - Mark Carney, Europe's Military Buildup, and Trump's Imperial Temptation
It was a moment of rare clarity in an increasingly multipolar world. On May 27, just a few hours after his throne speech, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke in an exclusive interview with CBC’s Power & Politics ...
The President in the Hall of Mirrors – Trump’s New World Order of Mercy for Perpetrators While Russia Remains Untouched
Donald Trump loves to talk about “deals” – as if wars were merely tedious negotiations over square footage, suffering a collateral side effect of diplomacy. Now it’s Russia. And again: no word about the dead, no rebuke for the aggressor...
The Origin of the Coldness – How Donald Trump's Childhood Shook the World
It begins, like so much with Donald Trump, with an image: a little boy, blond, well cared for, in the large house in Queens. A son from a good home – and yet, according to his niece ...
Pardon for Plotters – Trump’s Dangerous Flirtation with Domestic Terror
It is a sentence that echoes like a thunderclap in a democracy already crumbling under the weight of its own erosion: “I will take a look at it.” That’s how Donald Trump responded Wednesday when asked whether he would pardon the men ...
“Was Everything Just Barbarism Back Then?” – On Loretta, Orcs, and the Cultural Memory of Old Masterpieces
Once upon a time – that’s how fairy tales begin. And sometimes, it’s how debates begin, too – about works of art we’ve long since crowned as classics. But what happens when these works are viewed through the lens of a new era? ...
"Trump Knows Only Loyalty – How the President Pardoned a Family That Calls Themselves the ‘Trumps of the South’"
It was a sentence straight out of a reality show – staged, over-the-top, yet shockingly real in its cynicism: “Your parents are going to be free and clean – I hope by tomorrow.” Spoken by Donald ...
Elon Musk versus Trump’s Spending Offensive – One Man, One Billion-Dollar Plan, One Setback
It was a sentence as if from another world: “A bill can be big or it can be beautiful - but both at once?” Elon Musk looked into the CBS studio camera, his gaze tired yet unwavering...
"Silenced – How a Broken System Sends a Tortured Woman Back to Ethiopia"
San Diego, May 2025. A concrete block in the desert. The air smells of bleach and fear. Inside sits a woman in a booth so small that pain seems to pool in it. She speaks into ...
America Closes Its Doors – Trump Administration Halts Visa Interviews for International Students
A directive with far-reaching consequences: The U.S. State Department has suspended the scheduling of new visa interviews for international students - effective immediately. The move is justified by plans to expand the vetting of ...
The Final Measure - When a President Apparently Loses His Mind
There are moments in history when the world collectively puts its hand to its head - not out of fascination, but out of sheer disbelief. One of those moments has now occurred again. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
Supreme Court rejects plea to block copper mine on land sacred to Apaches in Arizona
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches fighting against a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they consider sacred. The justices upheld lower court decisions that allow ...
Apologies for the length, but not for the substance.
In a country where immigrants are routinely dehumanized by those who misunderstand or ignore the truth, this couldn’t be said briefly. I chose clarity and completeness over ...
The Farmers and the Broken Promise - How Trump’s Agricultural Policy Destroys Trust and Costs Billions
It begins like an American tragedy, written not in blood, but in omitted budget lines and frozen grant programs. Across the wide fields of Pennsylvania, where hope once bloomed, ...
A president who treats the power of pardon as if it were a personal privilege.
In Donald Trump's America, boundaries have blurred, and the unthinkable has become political routine. A president who wields the power of pardons as if it were a personal privilege ...
It is outrageous that President Trump is granting white South Africans immediate entry into the U.S. as a ‘persecuted minority’
A conversation with Jonathan Turner, former refugee aid worker in South Africa and USAID employee. Vermont/Washington – When the White House announced its new executive order on February 15, 2025, granting preferential entry to white South Africans, ...
MAGA at a Crossroads – Trump’s Break with Putin Shakes the Right
The world had grown used to the spectacle: Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed peacemaker, promising a swift resolution to the war in Ukraine – a firm handshake here, a tough deal there. Even during the campaign, ...
When the Cheers Turned to Screams – The Horror of Liverpool
It was a day destined to go down in the history of the city of Liverpool: tens of thousands of fans had gathered on Monday to celebrate their club’s Premier League triumph – a title ...
When the President Loses Himself – Trump, Language, and Forgetting
It is a sentence that has already gone down in history: “I invented the word ‘equalize.’” Spoken by none other than the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, on May 12,..
When the Kremlin Holds Up the Mirror – Trump’s “Crazy” Remark and Moscow’s Calculated Comeback
It was a sentence only Donald Trump could formulate – direct, glaring, maximally derailing: “Putin has gone absolutely crazy.” No diplomatic nuance, no caveat, no subtext...
Welcome to the Economy of Death – How BlackRock is Suing Life Itself - When Profit Is Allowed to Kill – and the System Says Thank You
It begins with a lawsuit so absurd, it almost reads like satire. But it’s real. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, is suing UnitedHealth — not because the company ...
The Pied Piper of the Far Right – How Maximilian Krah Recruits Young Minds for Authoritarianism
Dr. Maximilian Krah presents himself in this tweet as a self-proclaimed thought leader for the youth – and in doing so, reveals above all one thing: an authoritarian sense of mission that lacks any trace of democratic humility...
A true story from real life
by Peter J. Fotopoulos . On May 3, 1945, five days before the end of World War II in Europe, my uncle, 21-year-old 1st Lt. John R. Traige, the son of Macedonian immigrants Pantelis ...
"A Thread That Holds the World Together – The Quiet Wisdom of 13-Year-Old Anja Rozen"
There are images that scream – and there are images that whisper. The drawing by 13-year-old Anja Rozen from Slovenia does not merely whisper – it breathes, connects, carries...
"A King on Visit – Canada's Quiet Answer to the Noise from the South"
He does not come with a crown of gold, but with a message from history: King Charles III arrived in Ottawa on Monday – not as monarch of the Empire, but as King of Canada, ...
"The Night of the Drones – Russia Escalates as Madness Reigns"
It was a night when the sky over Ukraine no longer carried any promise - only a droning, a whistling, a death from afar. Over 350 Russian drones raced through the darkness, ...
"Human Rights on Hold – Europe's Slow Surrender to Barbarism"
It begins with a handshake. Two women smile into the camera - as if nothing had happened. Mette Frederiksen in sky blue, Giorgia Meloni in the beige of innocence. But what this photo documents is no diplomatic courtesy visit...
Digital Sabotage – How Trump Is Keeping the Truth From Reaching the Farms
It is a strike with surgical precision – and with an ideological scalpel. What President Donald Trump is doing to the Digital Equity Act is not an ordinary budget cut...
The Retreat – Trump’s New Ukraine Rhetoric Sounds Like Evasion, Not Peace
Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States and self-proclaimed dealmaker, who just a few months ago loudly promised to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours,” suddenly sounds very different. In a recent Truth Social post ...
"Did the wind build the computer?" – Creationism, distortion, and the new war on science
Republican Representative Glenn Gruenhagen of Minnesota is once again making headlines – not for legislation or meaningful contributions to education policy, but for a rhetorical smokescreen straight from the toolbox of the Christian right. ...
Tariff Roulette on Cue – Trump’s Transatlantic Flailing
Donald Trump doesn’t know what he wants. And that might be because he knows nothing. One moment he’s threatening a 50-percent tariff on European goods, the next he’s postponing the whole thing ...
The Last Bastion – How J.D. Vance Wants to Bend the Judiciary
It begins like a déjà vu from times when the separation of powers still meant something: J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, publicly offers advice to the Chief Justice of the country, John Roberts, in an interview with the ...
What’s unfolding in America right now, ...
... is not just a political shift. It’s not merely a pendulum swing between parties or a difference of economic opinion. What we are witnessing is the accelerated dismantling of the very scaffolding that supports human dignity and social cohesion...
The List of Names – Trump’s Campaign Against Harvard and Freedom
It was just a single post on Truth Social, but its echo rings like a cold command from darker chapters of history: President Donald Trump is demanding the “names and countries of origin of all international students” at Harvard University. Not out of academic interest. Not out of concern for safety...
Tears, Applause, Homecoming – Ukrainian POWs Return
First moments of freedom – Ukrainian prisoners of war cheer on their way home after a swap with Russia. The bus has just crossed the Ukrainian border. Welcome home.
At the Edge of Absurdity – Trump’s West Point Speech and the Intellectual Decay of a President
It was a sunny Saturday morning in West Point, that venerable military academy on the Hudson River, when the President of the United States stepped onto the stage – wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap, walking heavily, ...
When Science Flees – How the World Is Welcoming America's Brightest Minds
It begins quietly. With a canceled email address. With a lab that suddenly falls silent. With a grant application that goes unanswered. And yet, it is a tectonic shift: America’s scientific soul – thinned out, dismantled, driven away
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