Chicago Under Federal Command - Trump’s National Guard Marches in From Texas
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
In the Shadow of Power - How Trump and Thiel Are Building a Digital System of Control - An Investigative Report
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
US Attorney General Bondi stands with her back to the wall - and she knows it
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
A President Who Knows No Limits – A Commentary on the Current Situation
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
A President Against the Separation of Powers - Trump’s National Guard Deployment and America in a State of Emergency
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
The New Hardness - Merz, the "Little-Trump" Principle and the Dismantling of the Minimum
The government calls it reform, but in truth it is a change of system. With the abolition of citizen’s income and the introduction of a so-called new basic security, a chapter begins that ...
The Tariff That Never Came - Trump's Truck Tactics Between Bluff and Economic Self-Deception
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
The Anatomy of a Lie – How Alice Weidel Turns Fear Into a Political Weapon and Deceives Her Own Voters
When Alice Weidel writes, she doesn’t inform – she infects. Her recent claim that “everything you send via messenger, to friends or your partner, will be read by the EU” is not a misunderstanding.
State of Siege - Illinois Sues to Stop Trump’s Deployment of Troops in Chicago
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
The Invasion That Must Not Be: An Investigative Look at How Chicago Is Preparing for Trump’s War
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
The Night a Court Defended Democracy - and a President Crossed the Line
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
Fire on Edisto Beach - Judge Goodstein’s House Destroyed, Family Injured, Investigation into Possible Arson
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
A President Against the Constitution – Trump Defies Court Ruling and Sends California’s Soldiers to Oregon
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
The "Project 2025 Man" Who Is Dismantling the State and the World – An Investigative Report
Anyone walking through the well-kept suburbs of Virginia would hardly suspect that behind a row of pastel-colored houses, built in 1949, in Arlington lies the nerve center of a political radicalization. Russ Vought, ...
Trump’s Campaign Against Chicago
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
Boys, you can turn around now - federal judge stops Trump’s Portland deployment
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
Operation Lawn Care - Kristi Noem and the War on Portland
There are news stories that sound as if they were stolen straight from a parody show. But this is America under Trump: this is where the absurd becomes governance. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...
Judge Strikes Hard at Trump - The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Revenge of the State
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
To the Sound of Star Wars - Charlie Kirk Supporter Led Away in Portland
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
After the Storm - South Shore and the Traces of an ICE Raid
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
Secret War in the Caribbean - Trump’s Bombs on Boats and the Lies Behind Them
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
The Violence in Portland - It Comes Solely From the Trump Regime
A new chapter of brutality unfolded in front of the ICE prison in Portland - an incident that makes clear that the escalation of violence is not coming from the ranks of protesters but ...
Bought Silence - How Apple and Google Caved to Trump’s ICE Crusade
Apple and Google have sent a clear signal this week - and in doing so banned far more than just an app from their stores. Both companies blocked applications that allowed ...
Trump under Pressure - Jeffries Attacks Republicans as "Unserious"
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
Putin toasts the dead - with technology “Made in Europe” - An investigative report
As Russia sinks into war, the state budget runs deep red figures, and drones from Ukraine reach the Black Sea coast itself, a world of luxury grows in the shadow of Vladimir Putin's palace in Gelendzhik ...
Portland: ICE so bored that they are arresting hardliner MAGA journalists 😆🤣😂
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
Trump 2025: War against fantasy cartels - 17 dead, missing evidence
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
Albania, Armenia, Aber-baijan - how to end wars that do not even exist and Belgium is a beautiful city
The president of the free world lifts world history to the level of a tongue-twister test. "I believe we have settled Aber-baijan and Albania," says Donald Trump, 79, delivering the rare ...
Trump Targets Black Workers - the Black Caucus Calls for Resistance
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
Trump, the Shutdown, the Threat of Mass Layoffs and Nazi Methods
It is the second day of the government shutdown in Washington, and Donald Trump is staging it like an instrument of power. Where previous presidents in such moments tried to keep the damage to public administration ...
The Militarization of American Cities is Advancing - and in Society the Calls for Civil War Are Growing Louder
Sunday morning in Chicago felt like the beginning of a dystopian dream. Federal agents in camouflage uniforms patrolled the streets of River North, one of the city’s busiest tourist districts ...
Energy Before People - How Trump Uses the Shutdown as a Lever for Oil, Gas and Coal
While in Washington since October 1, 2025 the clocks have stood still, the Trump administration once again proves that standstill does not apply to everyone. More than 750,000 federal employees do not know if and when they will be ...
US veterans react with outrage and anger to Hegseth’s words
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
File a Complaint with One Click - How You and We Can Fight Fake News - Online Form
As of now you can file a criminal complaint for fake news directly with us via our created online form. Fill in the fields, upload evidence (screenshots, links, witness statements) ...
Not with us, you brown brothers of the sun
It takes only a few clicks, yet they can move worlds. Right-wing networks long ago understood that with brazen claims they can poison public debate. A tweet here, a share there — soon false ...
The Attack on the Twelfth Floor: When Press Freedom Ends in the Intensive Care Unit
The linoleum floor on the twelfth floor of Federal Plaza 26 in Manhattan knows many stories. It has heard the shuffling steps of desperate families waiting anxiously for their hearings ...
Shutdown as a Weapon - Trump Plunges the US into Chaos
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...
The internal document of the Oregon National Guard and an investigative report on doubts and reality
Portland – It is a sentence that is hard to surpass in its absurdity: “It looks like a warzone… Unless they are playing false recordings, this looks like World War II ...
Shutdown Poker – How Trump Gambles with the Health of Millions
It is once again one of those nights in Washington in which democracy threatens to break under its own paralysis. Hours before the deadline the US government is facing a partial shutdown ...
Germany – A Glimpse into the Possible Abyss
The Federal Republic is reeling. Not suddenly, not unexpectedly, but with the creeping certainty of a train that has long since passed the switch. What plays out in the social media feeds of right-wing politicians is more than political banter ...
The Dress Rehearsal for the Culture War: How Hegseth Politically Reshapes the US Military - and Trump Exhorts His Generals
It was a power demonstration with prior announcement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had hundreds of the highest-ranking officers of the United States flown in on Tuesday to dictate to them ...
The Screenshot That Destroyed Everything
Suzanne Swierc was director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when she wrote a sentence on her private Facebook account that would destroy her life: ...
Deported into the Heart of the Dictatorship, the Secret Pact with Tehran and Our Rage
A plane full of people who sought protection has been turned into a tool of political power games. Around one hundred Iranian men and women were put this week into a U.S.-chartered aircraft that flew from Louisiana via Qatar to Tehran.
Diplomacy in a Hail of Bullets - How FBI Director Kash Patel Offended New Zealand With 3D Pistols
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...
Meeting of Generals in the Bunker of Vanities - Why Trump’s Summit With Hegseth Is Doomed Before It Begins
A military all-hands meeting is not unusual in itself. But when Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issue the invitation, it looks less like a sober briefing and more like ...
Tax giveaways and coal renaissance as an attack on environment, climate and society – an investigative report
The government in Washington has presented a plan that looks like a fossil from another time: coal is supposed to return to the top of the US energy supply, no matter the cost ...
Portland in a State of War - at Least in Trump’s Imagination
The worst riots in Portland - conditions that left us stunned. Ten minutes of footage full of cruelty: people dancing at street festivals, tourists with cameras, families eating ice cream. The...
Furniture Under Tariffs - Trump’s Next Swing Into the Void
Donald Trump currently seems to be pulling new ideas out of a hat on a weekly basis for how to drive the United States economically into the ground. His latest trick: “substantial” tariffs ...
Hollywood Under Tariffs - Trump’s War Against the Cinema of the World
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
Bed of Lies - Trump's Flirt With the Miracle-Healing Conspiracy
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
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