The Great Disappearance - How Russia Circumvents Sanctions and Takes the Statistics With It
In Russia’s customs data for the year 2025, a gap of historic proportions has opened up. Around 180 categories of technically advanced goods have simply vanished. These are primarily electronics and industrial equipment, ...
ESN Parties and How Far-Right Extremists Lure Young People Through Student Parties
In Berlin, the same invitation has been circulating in some feeds for weeks: “Europe Vibes”, “first ESN student party”, champagne glasses, young faces, an EU lawmaker giving a ...
A Peace Plan Without Takers - Why Moscow Is Likely to Reject the New U.S.-Ukrainian Proposal
When Volodymyr Zelensky presented the new 20-point peace plan on Tuesday, it was immediately clear that this was not simply an addendum, but a deliberate break with a draft that in the fall had looked very much ...
He wished Merry Christmas and meant war
Donald Trump did not sit by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, but at his preferred altar: Truth Social. While others lit candles, he lit words. A Christmas greeting, 101 words long, filled with resentment, self-pity, ...
December 25, 2025 – Short News
Shots on Christmas Eve – ICE increasingly out of control – 2 injured! On Christmas morning, ICE agents in Maryland fire at a moving vehicle. Two people are injured, one by gunfire, ...
Digital Sovereignty – Why Europe Must Not Allow Itself to Be Intimidated and How Noem Has Reached the Lowest Level of Propaganda
Emmanuel Macron found unusually clear words. The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on former British and European officials were aimed at undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty. No diplomatic formula, ...
The New Freedom of Expression of Power
Washington builds a wall, Trump likes doing that, and calls it principle. From one day to the next, several European actors are deemed unwelcome. The accusation: “censorship.” What is meant is the European practice ...
Well then, research, document, court, until the Supreme Court breaks – The Supreme Court blocks Trump’s troop plans for Chicago
The Supreme Court of the United States has stopped Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the justices denied the administration permission to deploy National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area to support the ongoing deportation offensive ...
December 24, 2025 – Short News
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Active Truth Maintenance – A Short Guide from the White House
No one was responsible. And yet everyone was. Donald Trump explains that he did not call Jeff Landry – Landry called him. Very proactive, in fact. Minutes later, Landry explains that the ...
The Letter That Remained …
It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death ...
When a plant closes, a city breaks apart – Lexington and the result of Trump’s policies – Thousands lose their jobs in January 2026
The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades ...
The judge’s patience is completely exhausted – Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains free …
The courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, filled with tension, mistrust, and an unusually candid judge. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is allowed to remain free. Not because his case is simple, but because it ...
December 23, 2025 – Short News
“What is destroyed, we rebuild” – Zelenskyy honors energy workers! Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that there is not a single power plant left in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian attacks ...
Da haben sich die zwei richtigen politischen Spinner gefunden – Trumps Grönland-Irrsinn und die EU ist stärker, als man denkt
With a single post, Donald Trump reignited a simmering conflict and at the same time pushed it to a far higher level of escalation. The US president appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, ...
The End of the “Proud Boys” – How a Black Church Took Over the Name of a Hate Movement
Many readers now ask what happened to the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected ...
A Meeting Without Protocol - and: The Banality of Evil - How a Schoolyard Dispute Sparked the Epstein Scandal
There are encounters that change a life - and others that shake a world order, and why no one looked more closely. The meeting between Leslie H. Wexner, the discreet king of American retail,
Minneapolis Resists - As ICE Faces Growing Opposition and a City Protects Its Neighbors
In recent days, we have repeatedly reported on ICE operations, including in Minneapolis. We will not repeat all of the shocking footage here again. Long before you could see the people, the noise ...
December 22, 2025 – Short News
Jubilation at Dawn – Winter Solstice at Stonehenge! Thousands of people celebrated the sunrise of the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Sunday, long before the first light reached the horizon. In the darkness, visitors gathered ...
First the Threat, Then the Contempt – Turning Point AmericaFest as a Harbinger of Much More …
At AmericaFest, nothing was accidental, nothing loosely strung together. First Mike Johnson took the stage and made clear what this was about. He declared that a loss of the Republican majority in the House ...
Beauty, Power and the Silent Shadow – Trump, Maxwell, Brunel and the System Behind the Facade
Paris - 1991, an evening gala of the fashion world: glaring lights, tense faces, young models on stage whose future depends on the votes of a few jurors. In the middle of the jury sits Donald J. Trump, ...
„We Have Delivered“ – An Exclusive Conversation After the Release of the Epstein Files
The Kaizen Blog had the exclusive opportunity to speak with an investigator who was closely involved from the very beginning in both the investigation and the now published version of the Epstein files ...
U.S. Force at Sea – Trump’s Venezuela Policy Without Legal Basis
Trump likely enjoyed the images. Armed U.S. units, a helicopter hovering over an oil tanker, soldiers on the deck. The impression the Trump regime wants to project to the world, that of a lawful seizure, is false. At the time of the operation, ...
The Man Who Sees Nothing …
Donald Trump, 79, has discovered a new talent: invisibility. Not his own, but that of the women around him. Since he entered politics, he claims, he never mentions ...
December 21, 2025 – Short News
Red hats on black slopes! Anyone afraid of Santa Claus might want to look away. Over the weekend, the slopes of Sunday River in Maine were transformed into a red and white spectacle ...
Pam Bondi – In the Name of Transparency
It was an act of almost literary purity: an Epstein document package so clean, so free of incriminating names that even high gloss kitchen cleaners would be jealous. No Trump trace, no shadow, no speck of dust ...
The Visible Break - How the MAGA Movement Is Tearing Itself Apart on an Open Stage
What was intended as a memorial event for Charlie Kirk turned into a ruthless reckoning within the American right in Phoenix. At the AmericaFest conference of Turning Point USA, one of the most important stages for the right wing ...
A Lost Case – and a Deliberately Told Untruth by …, clearly, Alice Weidel
What Alice Weidel is currently selling as a triumph is, upon closer examination, the opposite. The ruling of December 18, 2025, by the Administrative Court of Weimar, Case No. 8 K 1271/23 We, is clear, sober, and ...
Redacted Truth – How the Justice Department Promises Transparency and Fails to Deliver
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun releasing files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case – while at the same time acknowledging that this release is incomplete. In a letter to Congress, the department confirmed ...
December 20, 2025 – Short News
Unacceptable in the heart of Europe – Why Hungary under Orbán has no place in the EU! “It is not entirely clear who attacked whom.” This sentence, spoken by Viktor Orbán ...
The Name as a Trophy – How Trump Appropriates the Kennedy Center and Much of the Family Pushes Back
What is happening here is less a cultural policy decision than a display of power. A president who reshapes a board according to his own preferences, removes critics, installs loyal partisans and then allows himself to be honored by that very ...
What the New Epstein Photos Do Not Tell Us …
Democrats in the House of Representatives have released several dozen additional photos from the possession of Jeffrey Epstein. The images show Epstein’s contacts with wealthy and influential people. They come from a collection ...
December 19, 2025 – Short News
„Auf Deutschland… auf Russland“ – AfD zeigt ihre geringe Bildung und Anstand! „Auf Deutschland… auf Russland… haha“ – so klang es auf der Weihnachtsfeier der AfD-Landtagsfraktion in Hessen. Gelächter, erhobene…
Trump Renames the Kennedy Center After Himself
The decision has been made. The most important cultural institution in the United States will now also carry the name of the sitting president. The supervisory board personally appointed by Donald Trump has decided to rename the John ...
Venezuela Calls the Security Council – Caracas Speaks of U.S. Colonial Arrogance
The UN Security Council is convening for an emergency meeting at Venezuela’s request. The session is scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, as Slovenia announced, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council ...
Putin’s Wine in Carry-On Luggage – How Russian Elites Bypassed U.S. Sanctions and Failed in San Francisco
Shortly before the results were announced, a whole series of wines vanished from the program of the renowned San Francisco International Wine Competition. Not because of poor ratings, not because of formal deficiencies - ...
Clocky: When Revenge Rolls on Wheels
Ah, the mother-in-law. Made another comment about your cooking skills? Described your home decor as an “interesting transitional phase”? Or gave you that special look when you ruined the roast for the third time? ...
Does He Actually Believe This? – Trump’s Address to the Nation
Donald Trump addressed the nation from the White House on Wednesday evening. On paper it was a speech to the nation. In its effect it was closer to a televised rally: fast, aggressive, full of self-praise, with long passages ...
How the New Basic Income Support Is Being Passed, Right-Wing Positions Gain Influence, and Resistance Needs New Paths
Three years after its introduction, the citizen’s benefit is effectively over. The federal cabinet has launched a reform that replaces the existing system with a new basic income support and introduces significantly harsher rules ...
December 18, 2025 - Short News
Ghislaine Maxwell files motion for release due to new evidence! Ghislaine Maxwell has filed a habeas petition with the federal court in Manhattan seeking to overturn her 20 year prison sentence. The former partner of Jeffrey Epstein cites “substantial new evidence” ...
Afterthought: Trump has the personality of an alcoholic – Susie Wiles said out loud what usually remains behind closed doors, but …
Rarely has a sitting White House chief of staff spoken so openly about a president, his closest circle, and the internal fault lines of an administration. Susie Wiles, previously known for discipline, control, ...
The Return of the Whistle and Warning Notes
Three short whistles. A knock on the wall. A handwritten note on a lamppost, unsigned, gone again after two hours. In Minneapolis, Chicago, and many other American cities, ...
As we had already indicated, Border Patrol has also returned to Chicago – fear and panic in the neighborhoods
What we described yesterday in our article “Christmas in Hell – When ICE Uses the Holidays for Mass Arrests”, has now become reality. Greg Bovino is back in Chicago with his unit ...
December 17, 2025 – Short News
Vance sells job rhetoric while the numbers turn negative and actually calls it A++++! JD Vance has celebrated the Trump administration’s economic policy as a comeback and promised to reward companies that create jobs ...
A Dog in the Crocodile’s Jaws – Florida Confronts the Consequences of a Nature Thrown Off Balance
In a residential neighborhood on Florida’s east coast, a scene unfolded in mid-November that shook even long-time residents. - (We will not show these images here) - In a canal in ...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “This kind of politics deserves no visit” – and publicly contradicts Trump
Doug Ford is drawing a clear personal consequence from Donald Trump’s policies. The premier of the Canadian province of Ontario has stated that he will not travel to the United States under Trump’s presidency ...
Christmas in Hell – When ICE Uses the Holidays for Mass Arrests
In Charlotte, North Carolina, federal agents arrested two people. Their offense: they warned others about upcoming ICE raids. Ten days before Christmas Eve 2025, this is the new reality in the United States ...
December 16, 2025 – Short News
Trump administration defends White House ballroom construction with security arguments! The Trump administration is sticking to plans to build a large ballroom at the White House and is explicitly citing national security to justify the project ...
Better Than Washington and Lincoln
He is a better president than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.” Donald Trump said that. He really said it. Out loud. With his mouth. In front of people. About himself. Let us let that sink ...
EU Instead of NATO – Moscow’s New Signal, Washington’s Pressure, and Zelenskyy’s Narrow Corridor
Russia has for the first time signaled in the ongoing talks that Ukraine joining the European Union could be acceptable to Moscow – as part of a possible peace settlement. This information ...