Authoritarian System - How VA Doctors Are Now Allowed to Discriminate Against Veterans Based on Political Beliefs
What appears to be a technical adjustment in the administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in truth a political breach of the dam. From now on, medical personnel there may refuse treatment ...
"I was filled with rage" – How a Canadian tribal leader confronted Donald Trump at the G7 summit
Calgary, Alberta – It was a moment in which symbolism weighed heavier than any diplomatic protocol. When Steven Crowchild, a respected tribal leader of the Tsuut’ina Nation in Alberta, Canada, ...
Arrest after deadly attacks on Minnesota lawmakers
Belle Plaine, Minnesota – The two-day manhunt for the suspect in the deadly attacks on two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has come to an end. Vance Boelter, who is ...
Gold, Gigabytes and Grandiosity - Trump’s Entry into the Mobile Phone Market
New York, June 16, 2025 - Donald Trump is entering the mobile phone market. With a blend of pathos, patriotism, and product promise, the Trump Organization has introduced a new mobile phone brand: T1 Mobile ...
Birthday with a Seat Reservation - How Trump Got His Parade Booked Out and Emptied
Washington, June 16, 2025 – It was the big day of the big man. The Army turned 250, Trump 79 – and together they marched as if the nation were still intact. ...
The AfD’s View of Women: Outdated Thinking and Misogyny
Since its founding, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has established itself as a party that takes controversial positions on social and political issues. One particularly striking aspect of its ideology is its view of women ...
Farewell to the American Dream - Why in 2025 the US is no longer a land of longing for many
America used to be a promise. A place that existed not only on the map but also in people's minds and hearts - as a synonym for new beginnings, freedom, limitless possibilities. But the image has cracked...
Trump Escalates Deportations in Democratic Cities - and Mocks Minnesota Governor After Assassination
It was a double blow that shook the political landscape of the United States over the weekend: While President Donald Trump on Sunday evening directed the immigration agency ICE to carry ...
After Fatal Shootings of Lawmakers: Vance Boelter Arrested
It was the uniform that became their undoing. No alarm, no warning, no broken lock – just the shimmering blue of a fake police cruiser pulling up in the night like so many before it...
Reckoning with a Breakdown of Control - How the LAPD Turned Its Force Against the People on June 14
It was a day that was supposed to go down in Los Angeles history - but not because of peaceful civic demonstrations or the strength of civil society. Instead, it was because of how the city ...
Here Come the Real Professionals - What Trump Could Learn from the Mexican Puppy Parade
It was June 14, 2025, and once again, Donald Trump had summoned the nation to a grand parade - a military spectacle for his own birthday, wrapped in pomp, pathos, and PR. Cost: up to 45 million dollars...
America Faces Its Reflection – The Media Shift After the “No Kings” Protests
There are Sundays when not only the world but its reflections begin to tremble. June 15, 2025 was one such day – and the American press took notice. From Los Angeles to Fairbanks ...
Water Pistols Against Mass Tourism – Spain’s Quiet Rebellion Turns Loud
Barcelona, June 15, 2025 – The sun beats down on the pavement, tourists stroll through the old town, selfie sticks cross with strollers. But suddenly the familiar flow is disrupted...
Political Double Murder in Minnesota – Surveillance Cameras Show Suspected Attacker Moments Before the Assault
It was a matter of seconds—seconds of silence that suddenly shook the entire political climate: In two sharply captured security camera images, a man in a dark uniform is seen, equipped with tactical gear, a flashlight, ...
Trump’s Middle East Fantasy Meets the Reality of the G7 - Birthday Wishes from Putin
When Donald Trump arrived at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies on June 15, 2025, he encountered a completely different agenda than he had envisioned. While the US President ...
The Peacemaker – A Lesson in Five Dreams and a Bag of Tacos
Little Donald has once again dug deep into the taco bag. With greasy fingers and a vacant stare, he sits beneath his golden lamp, chewing on “Make the Middle East Great Again” ...
A House That Does Not Stay Silent – Why Anklam Deserves More Than a Right-Wing Network Hub
On Saturday, June 14, Anklam once again became the site of a gathering that sounds harmless at first. “Visit to the North” – that was the code name under which dozens of far-right actors
"No King, No Servant" – America's Uprising Against Trump and the Shots Fired in Salt Lake City
It was a Saturday that won’t appear in any textbook, but will remain in people's hearts. Not because a president was overthrown – but because millions marched. They came...
Deliberate Attack or Reckless Rage? SUV driver plows through crowd at 'No Kings' protest in Virginia
Culpeper, Virginia – It was the end of a peaceful day of protest that had brought thousands of people to the streets across the country: At a "No Kings" demonstration in the quiet town of Culpeper, the day ...
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 ...