Ruling with Greetings from Braunau - How a Supreme Court Disempowered Itself
Follow-up to our previous article on the Compact ruling: Sometimes a glance at Telegram is enough to grasp how far the republic has fallen. Martin Sellner, convicted right-wing extremist, chief ideologue of “remigration,” ...
Nuclear facilities could have far-reaching consequences beyond what was previously assumed
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there are indications of localized contamination and chemical hazards resulting from additional impacts at the nuclear sites in Fordo and Natanz...
An Attack on the Law – Israel’s Bombing of Evin Prison as a Breach of International Law
New York / Tehran – It was an attack with symbolic power – and with far-reaching consequences: From symbolism to indictment – why the strike on Tehran’s most well-known prison exceeds the bounds of war...
NATO, bombs and insults
It began, as always, with a screenshot. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and the first person to make diplomatic communication public via Signal screenshot, delivered once again. This time, it was a message from ...
Fireworks of the Rich, Silence of the Many – Protests in Venice
Venice, June 23, 2025 – It was a symbolic moment that not only drew attention but cast a political spotlight on the relationship between power, money, and public space: activists from Greenpeace Italy, together with the British initiative “Everyone Hates Elon,” unfurled a huge banner in the middle of St. Mark’s Square ...
Yay, let’s start a right-wing newspaper too – totally in line with state trends...
It doesn’t begin with violence. It begins with words. With so-called “opinions” that in truth are directed against the dignity of others. The ruling of the Federal Administrative Court on June 24, 2025, is therefore more than a legal event ...
A Court Blocks Trump’s Latest Attack on Harvard - The Fight for Freedom of Thought and International Students
Washington / Boston - It is a legal slap in the face for Donald Trump and a sigh of relief for thousands of young people around the world: A federal judge in Boston on Monday once again blocked a measure by the Trump administration aimed at keeping foreign students from attending Harvard University...
A State with a Black Mask - How Narciso Barranco Became the Face of a Repressive America
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
The End of the 12-Day War - Trump Announces Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran
Tel Aviv / Tehran / Washington - It was a morning between hope and rubble: On Tuesday, Israel and Iran agreed to the ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, thus marking - at least for now - an end to an unprecedented twelve-day war ...
Ceasefire or Wishful Thinking? - Trump's Triumphant Claim Meets Iranian Denial
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv – In the early hours of June 24, 2025, the war between Israel and Iran seemed to have reached a turning point – at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump ...
A Judgment Against Humanity – The Supreme Court Gives Trump Green Light for Deportations to Third Countries
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
A Ceasefire - For Now: Trump's Risky Balancing Act Between Israel and Iran
Washington / Tel Aviv / Tehran / Doha - Amid one of the most dangerous escalations in decades, U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a complete ceasefire between Israel and Iran late Monday evening...
Psychological Warfare Against the Heart of the Regime - When a Phone Call Is Enough
It began with an impact - and did not end with the smoke. The death of Hossein Salami was more than a military loss for the Iranian regime. It was the prelude to a strategy that does not speak through bombs ...
Donald J. Trump’s Nuclear Submarines – Or: How to Explain the World with 30 Tomahawks
Washington, June 23, 2025 – When Donald Trump mentions a nuclear submarine, it’s not because it sails underwater. It’s because – in his words – it is “the most technologically superior, ...
Strategic Debate or Right-Wing Self-Affirmation? – Maximilian Krah’s Alliance with Martin Sellner Raises Fundamental Questions
When Maximilian Krah appears in public, it is rarely without calculation. The AfD politician, long controversial for his proximity to far-right networks and his role in European scandals, likes to present himself as the intellectual ...
"MIGA!!!" - How Trump Embarrasses His Own Government and Destroys a Fellow Republican
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
The Next Front: Explosions in Qatar After Iranian Threat - Trump's War Expands
Doha / Tehran / Jerusalem - It was only a matter of time before the shadows of the new war fell over additional countries. In the early hours of Monday, several explosions shook the Gulf region - of all places, ...
Market in Holding Pattern - How Wall Street and Oil Prices Are Reacting to Trump’s Strike on Iran
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
How the U.S. Strike on Iran Is Turning the Middle East Into a Firestorm
Tehran / Tel Aviv / Washington – With targeted airstrikes on three military sites in Iran, the U.S. military directly entered the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic on Sunday evening ...
Heroic Act Before the Service – Church Members Stop Armed Attacker in Michigan
Wayne, Michigan - It could have been another bloodbath, one of those headlines America has read far too often. But on Sunday morning, a potential mass shooting was stopped at the last second: outside CrossPointe ...
The Veteran’s Wife – How ICE Ripped a Young Mother and Wife of a U.S. Marine Out of Everyday Life
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
A Suspicion Is Enough – Ohio Allows ICE to Hunt Migrants and Tourists in Public Spaces
It is a law that seems to come from another era – a time when rights were not protected but suspected. In Ohio, the Republican-dominated Senate has approved the bill S.B. 172. A law that allows the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
When Intolerance Falls Flat - “Hetero Awesome Fest” in Boise Fails Spectacularly
Boise, Idaho – June 2025 - Announced with much pathos and grand rhetoric, the self-proclaimed “Hetero Awesome Fest” on June 20 and 21 in Boise turned out to be a prime example of the pitiful attempt to replace ...
Power Vacuum in Tehran - Insiders Report Plans to Oust Ayatollah Khamenei Following US-Israel Strikes
Jerusalem / Tehran – June 23, 2025 - Following the massive airstrikes by the United States and Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities, signs are mounting of an escalating power struggle within the Islamic Republic...
Between Justice and Deportation – Judge Orders Release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but ICE Plans to Detain Him Again
Nashville, Tennessee – June 23, 2025 - A case that has long become symbolic of President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation policy took a new turn over the weekend: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ...
America’s Oil Oracle - When Geopolitics Becomes a Self-Caricature
There are moments when global politics outpaces itself. And then there are moments like this one - when the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, calls on China ...
An Attack, a Post, an Upheaval – How Trump’s Iran Strike Splits the Right-Wing Base
Washington, June 22, 2025 – There was no State of the Union address, no press conference, no solemn moment in the Oval Office. Instead: a single social media post. “We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear ...
Weidel embarrasses herself again: Why refugees are not to blame for rising health insurance contributions
The claim that refugees are pushing the German healthcare system into crisis remains persistent – especially within AfD circles. She also repeated this stance on X (formerly Twitter) on June 20, 2025, in stark terms: ...
The 230-Million-Dollar Question – How Trump’s Relationship with Pro-Israel Groups Comes into Focus
It is an image that burns itself into memory: Donald Trump against a blood-red background, next to a figure that demands attention – 230,473,622 US dollars. That’s how much money, according to a sharepic ...
Iran knows it cannot win this war
It was a massive yet limited strike - a show of force with calculated restraint. No political targets, no command centers, no air defense systems were hit. According to official Pentagon statements, Fordow was heavily ...
Operation Midnight Hammer - How America Hit Iran’s Nuclear Program and Shook the World
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - In the early hours of June 22, 2025, the world changed. Three targeted U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear core sites - Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan - struck not only military objectives ...
Thirst, Pain and Silence – New Insights into Family Detention Centers in Texas
McAllen, Texas – Children being shoved aside by adults to reach drinking water. A toddler with diarrhea who was given only tap water for days. A boy with swollen feet denied a medical ...
Between Concern and Diplomacy – France Responds to US Strikes on Iran
Paris – With clear words but a diplomatic tone, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has commented on the recent US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities....
The World on the Brink of the Unthinkable – The Red Cross Warns of a War Without Limits
Amid the dramatically escalating situation in the Middle East, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, has issued an urgent warning ...
A Game with Nuclear Fire – Why Trump's Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities Represents an Unprecedented Risk
There are moments in history when a single command is enough to destroy decades of diplomatic work - and to plunge the world into an abyss whose depth no one can truly fathom...
The red line has been crossed - Trump orders US bombers to strike Iran's nuclear centers
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - June 22, 2025 - In an escalation with unforeseeable consequences, US President Donald Trump confirmed that American forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday night ...
Faith on the Wall - Texas Requires Schools to Display the Ten Commandments
Amid growing tensions between constitutional law and religious symbolism, the state of Texas has passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be visibly posted in all public school classrooms. With the legislation passed ...
White Supremacy as an Exam Assignment – How a Constitutional Essay Revealed a University’s Moral Bankruptcy
Gainesville – This is a scandal that reaches far beyond the campus: At the University of Florida’s law school, a 29-year-old law student, Preston Damsky, was awarded the prestigious ...
Racism in Festival Format - and No One Wants to Take the Blame
It's the same old game. First, people go all in on hate – with sweatpants, toy knives, and a banner that calls migrants "robbers." Then comes the big shrug: no one knows how it happened. Apologies. Internal review...
Trump's Approval Ratings Plummet – Even in His Own Strongholds
Washington – It is a warning signal that cannot be ignored, even amid the constant noise of political messaging: Donald Trump's approval ratings are in free fall ...
B-2 bombers deployed to Guam - US moves closer to the front of the Middle East conflict
Washington / Guam - The United States is deploying strategic stealth bombers of the B-2 Spirit type to the Pacific island of Guam. The move comes at a time of rising tensions in the Middle East ...
A Final Greeting from the Shadows - The Murder of Valeria Márquez, a Femicide with a Political Message
Zapopan / Washington / Mexico City - About the moment when Valeria Márquez, 23 years old, was shot dead during a TikTok livestream in her beauty salon in Zapopan. We had reported on this case several times. About her last words ...
Who’s There?” – When AI Answers Where Family Once Was
London / New York / Tehran – When Zahra tried to call her mother in Tehran, no familiar voice answered. Instead, she heard an unnaturally sounding female voice in English: ...
America in a Chokehold – How Trump Targets Cities, Opponents, and Entire Families
Washington / Los Angeles / New York – He is a president on a collision course. With millions of people. With constitutional principles. With the notion that the state shouldn’t kick down ...
A Wrong Name, a Real Scandal – JD Vance Insults California and Pours Fuel on the Fire
Los Angeles – It wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. It was a political signal – deliberate, calculated, and as serious as what it unleashed. When US Vice President JD Vance appeared Friday ...
Rollback by Design - Trump’s E.P.A. Overturns Asbestos Ban in Favor of Industry
Washington - It is a move that leaves many stunned: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider the ban on white asbestos - the last form ...
Between Hope, Drones and Diplomacy – Ukraine in the Shadow of War
Kyiv – As the war in Ukraine continues with unabated ferocity, a contradictory picture is emerging these days. On the one hand, attacks on cities such as Odesa and Kharkiv ...
Between War and Compromise - Europe Struggles with Iran for a Diplomatic Future
Geneva - While sirens wail in Tehran and shelters fill in Jerusalem, leading European diplomats met on Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for a crisis meeting in Swiss neutrality...
Between Bookshelves and Barricades - Two Judges Push Back Against the Trump Administration's Arbitrariness
Washington - It was a day when the law took a breath. While in the East, the venerable buildings of Harvard gleamed in the early summer light, in the West, heavily armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Los Angeles ...
Court-Ordered Release – Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil to Be Freed
New York – In a high-profile ruling, a U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention. The former Columbia student had been arrested in March 2025 under the pretext ...