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 ...
“Liberation” in the Name of War – Donald Trump’s Speech at Fort Bragg and the End of the Republican Mask
It was announced as a celebration – a festive day in honor of the 250-year history of the U.S. Army. But what Donald Trump bellowed into the microphone on June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sounded less like a patriotic tribute ...
"He's turning the military against us" - California takes legal action to stop Trump's troop deployment in Los Angeles
The conflict between California and the federal government has reached a new level of escalation. Governor Gavin Newsom filed an emergency motion in federal court Tuesday evening to halt the deployment of National Guard members ...
"Tarred and feathered" - How Trump's America incites violence and cities spiral into revolt
The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, calls for torture against California's Governor Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, Marines are marching into Los Angeles, violence is escalating in Austin, and nationwide protests are set to culminate ...
Trump Threatens Protesters with Violence – While Pardoning the January 6 Rioters
It is a picture that could hardly be drawn more sharply: While Donald Trump cracks down on demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting his immigration policies, one of his first acts in his second term was to pardon over a thousand individuals – including those who brutally attacked police officers ...
Trump’s Dreamworld: A President in the Mirror of His Own Myths
In the digital agora of the 21st century, where words fly like arrows through the air of social media, the voice of a man rises once again - one who has never ceased to cast himself as the savior of a world in decline: Donald J. Trump ...
The Madness Continues: RFK Jr. Sweeps Away CDC Vaccine Committee
With a political thunderclap, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, has dismissed the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee ...
The Night That Changed Everything – Russia’s Unprecedented Attack Shakes Odesa and Kyiv
It began with a humming sound, barely distinguishable from the wind or distant machinery - but soon it became the sound of destruction that tore the cities of Kyiv and Odesa from the darkness. In the early hours of Tuesday, Russia ...
A City Under Siege - How Donald Trump Turns Washington Into a Military Spectacle
It has barely been a week since rainbow flags lined the streets of Washington, as World Pride transformed the capital into a celebration of diversity. The streets were colorful, the message clear - equality, visibility, freedom...
Dallas rises - Protests against Trump's deportation policy reach Texas
On Monday evening, Dallas became the next stage in the growing resistance against the deportation offensive of U.S. President Donald Trump. Dozens of demonstrators gathered on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, holding up signs and waving flags ...
Is Trump Testing the Limits of Military Rule? - How the Deployment of US Marines in Los Angeles Crosses a Red Line
It begins with an image many thought impossible: US Marines, trained for combat missions in Afghanistan or Syria, preparing to act against American citizens on American soil - right in the middle of Los Angeles. President Donald Trump has ...
The Heat of Power – How Donald Trump Is Turning America’s Labor Protections to Dust
36 million workers were to be better protected from heat by a new regulation from OSHA – the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Shade, drinking water, breaks: not ...
The Siege of Los Angeles – Trump, Newsom, and the Uprising in the West
t was a Sunday that felt like a turning point in American history. Thousands of people poured into the streets of Los Angeles, blocked freeways, and set self-driving vehicles on fire. These were images that recalled the summer of 2020 - George Floyd, tear gas, rebellion...
A Dangerous Precedent - How Donald Trump Placed California's National Guard Under Federal Command
It is a step that goes far beyond political symbolism - and reaches deep into the constitutional entrails of the United States: On June 7, 2025, Donald Trump ordered ...
A Nation Before June 14 – How Los Angeles Became the Epicenter of a Presidential State of Emergency
Los Angeles, June 9, 2025, 3:00 AM (12:00 PM CET. It was already the evening of June 6 when the first protests formed and the raids began, but the nights ...
How Los Angeles Is Rising Against Fear
It is a Sunday, but not one of peace. Not a quiet day, not a weary end of the week. June 8, 2025 marked one of those moments when a city doesn’t just tremble - it speaks. Loudly. ...
Los Angeles is a Powder Keg - Trump’s National Guard Against His Own People
It is a light flickering above the city - not a sunrise, but the twitching of police sirens, burning dumpsters, and the harsh, unforgiving presence of a state turning against its citizens. On the night of June 7 to 8, Los Angeles became ...
America's New Apartheid – How Trump's Justice Department Seeks to Legitimize School Segregation Again
It is just a country road that separates Ferriday from Vidalia – but crossing it means traveling through decades of American history. On one side: Ferriday High School, a campus ...
The Silence of the Machines – How Google Helps Arm Trump’s Border Regime with AI
It is not a wall made of concrete. No barbed wire cutting through the dusty borderland. No, the new America does not build in stone, but in code. It erects its fences from algorithms, its watchtowers from camera eyes, ...
A State in Your Pocket – How Smartphones Became the Achilles’ Heel of Western Security
It starts with a crash. Not a loud, not a spectacular one – but a quiet, almost imperceptible glitch in a system that is no longer a technical toy, but a geopolitical echo chamber. When cybersecurity analysts at the firm iVerify began ...
“Weidel, please stop lying – it’s annoying”
It was one of those days when you wish politics would at least occasionally recognize the difference between a scandal and a slogan. On June 7, 2025, Alice Weidel took to X ...
"Oh, Mary!" – When Ignorance Becomes a Weapon: Mary Miller's Embarrassing Attack on a Sikh as a Moment of American Self-Exposure
These are the moments when not only the veil of political ignorance is lifted, but the very foundation of Republican identity begins to shake. On June 6, 2025, such a moment occurred – and it was so unmistakable, so revealing, ...
Trump Sends National Guard to Los Angeles – Against the Governor’s Will
It was a day that will likely be etched deep into California’s collective memory – tear gas, burning cars, arrested union leaders – and now, soldiers. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would deploy 2,000 ...
The Paramount Uprising – Tear Gas, Arrests, and the New Harshness of Immigration Policy
Tear gas and smoke hung over the southern outskirts of Los Angeles on Saturday. The streets of the small city of Paramount became the scene of an escalating confrontation between federal authorities and a civil society that refuses ...
Break with the Ally – How Donald Trump Publicly Threatens Elon Musk
It is an escalation whose sharpness seems unusual even for Donald Trump – and at the same time a glimpse into the power dynamics of a president who tolerates no loyalty short of total devotion. In an interview with ...
The List of the Dead – How the KGB Killed Across Borders and Putin’s Russia Continues the Practice
It doesn't begin with Skripal. It doesn't end with Navalny. Anyone who believes the Kremlin’s political bloodlust is a whim of the present, a mere pathology of Vladimir Putin, ...
The Death That Won't Die – How the Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Shaking the US Again in 2025! (incl. Nearly Unredacted Epstein File in the Article)
It looked like a scene from a dark thriller: three fine but distinct fractures in the neck of a man who became the face of a global abuse scandal – and whose death raised more questions than it answered. Jeffrey Epstein, ...
The 911 President – How Donald Trump Is Turning Emergency Powers into a New Form of Government
It begins with an irony that only flourishes in the depths of political power: A president who claims America has recovered from chaos under his leadership governs as if the country were in a state of permanent emergency...
The Machines of Darkness – The Story of Terrorgram
"Due to current events, we have updated the publication date of our May 5 article to today's date. The content remains unchanged." It didn’t begin with a gunshot. It began with a link. A channel. A message in a dark corner of the web. And like a plunge out of civilization into a world of shadow and filth, thousands found themselves drawn in -...
Dark MAGA - How Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Destruction of Democracy Became a Strategy
American politics increasingly resembles a theater in which not only the roles but also the rules are being rewritten. What once lurked in the dark corners of ideological discourse is now ...
Wagner's Departure, Moscow's Shadow - Mali and the New Face of Russia's War
It begins with a sentence meant to sound like triumph, but it rings like retreat: "Mission accomplished. Private Military Company Wagner returns home." So read the announcement Friday evening on a Telegram channel run by the ...
The Siege of Los Angeles – How California Defies the Federal Government
It was a Friday in June, but the heat of that day came not only from the California sun. On June 6, 2025, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing that could no longer be described merely as a political dispute ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back in the US – The Judiciary as a Fig Leaf for a Political Scandal
The Shadow of Retreat – How the US Tries to Save Face in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It begins with a return flight. Not voluntary, not hopeful – but as the result of an institutional breakdown that reaches far beyond the borders of ...