The Black Book and the Hallows of Death
It began with an unassuming leather volume, a black address book full of names, phone numbers, and coded notes. For some it was just another relic from the world of the super-rich ...
The Silence That Says It All – Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, and an Unanswered Question
It is a video that speaks more through what remains unspoken than through any words. Jeffrey Epstein, being questioned under oath for the first time since his initial conviction ...
Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein files, and a president under pressure – How the Justice Department is trying to reinvent itself
The meeting is as symbolic as it is politically explosive: On this Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to meet with one of the most feared women in the country ...
The Silence of the Jurors - How a Judge Rejects Trump's Request for Disclosure in the Epstein Case
It was a moment many had been waiting for - some with hope, others with fear. But when the ruling came, it was as clear as it was final: A federal judge on Wednesday ...
Trump Regime Fires Firefighter Safety Inspectors and 9/11 Heroes - A Blow to Health and Justice
On April 1, 2025, the first shock came: The Trump administration began mass layoffs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The Unheard Lawsuit – How Katie Johnson Accused Donald Trump and America Looked Away
It was April 26, 2016, when a woman named Katie Johnson filed a civil lawsuit in the Central District of California. The complaint, typed and submitted without legal counsel ...
A Pious Warrior - How Vance Boelter Became a Christian Attacker
There are stories that defy understanding - and yet must be written. The story of Vance Boelter is one of them. A man who was once honored in rural Minnesota for his kindness and decades later killed two people and seriously ...
Language Ban by Decree - How Trump Deprives Millions of the Right to Understanding
With a single stroke of the pen, the Trump administration has torn down one of the central pillars of citizen-oriented policy history: access to the federal government for people ...
The President Who Desperately Wants to Let Go – Trump’s Epstein Memo, Pam Bondi, and the Dirty Game of Blame
Es hätte ein Befreiungsschlag sein sollen. Ein kurzes Memo, zwei Seiten, veröffentlicht von Trumps Justizministerium am 7. Juli 2025 – ein offizielles Dementi, nüchtern und final: Es gebe keine sogenannte „Epstein-Kundenliste“, ...
"They took one of our own" - The death of Jaime Alanís and the brutal ICE raid on a legal California cannabis farm
It was a hot, glaring day in Southern California when Jaime Alanís died – not of a natural illness, not in peace, but in a fall. He plunged more than nine meters from the roof ...
The Shadow Beneath the Carpet - How the Epstein Files Are Shaking the Trump Administration
It was one of those weeks when the facade begins to crumble. The Trump administration had hoped to keep the lid on the barrel with a brief memo, but what poured out was distrust, anger ...
20 Million Dollars for a Broken Life - Mahmoud Khalil Demands Justice from Trump's America
It is a quiet afternoon in Manhattan. Mahmoud Khalil sits on a narrow sofa, his ten-week-old son Deen in his arms, eyes fixed on the floor ...
“A Park, a President, a Threat” – Trump’s Troops in Los Angeles, His Silence in Texas
These are images usually seen in conflict zones: Humvees among palm trees, armed soldiers by a lake, an amphitheater that looks more like a command post than a venue for summer concerts.
Black on White - How a President Without Conscience Slammed the Door in the Faces of the Victims
There are official letters that offer comfort. Others show resolve, responsibility, compassion. And then there is that one document from the White House dated July 6, 2025 ...
It Was Just the Weather’s Fault - How Kristi Noem Flooded Responsibility Away for Herself and Trump
It was the image of a government failure - in lipstick and blazer. While the mud in the streets of Hunt was still steaming and Camp Mystic had become the ruin of a nightmare, ...
The Price of Victory – Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" and the Cold Cost of Power
Washington, July 5, 2025 – It was a triumph, staged like a play from another era. On the South Lawn of the White House stood Donald Trump, surrounded by loyalists, flanked by his cabinet members ...
FIFA in the Spotlight - How Trump's Immigration Policies Threaten the 2026 World Cup
What if the world's most beautiful sideshow is no longer seen as an invitation to global exchange, but as a security risk? That is precisely the scenario emerging one year before the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
“I Hated That Dog” – The Story of Kristi Noem and the Shooting of Cricket
It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel – yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an “unshakable patriot” and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back ...
The Shadows of the Lie – Pam Bondi, Epstein, and the Promise of Horror
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
Holy Trumpus of the Latter Days – How JD Vance Is Rewriting the Gospel of White Salvation
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
Roberts Whines – While the Supreme Court Sells Out the Law
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
Welcome to the Banana Republic of America – A Commentary on the Dismantling of Legal Safeguards
One might almost think that the United States is determined to prove that even democracies with a constitution, a Supreme Court, and checks and balances can eventually become a caricature of themselves...
“Remigration” Is the New Expulsion - How Zohran Mamdani Became the Target of a New Republican Witch Hunt
It is a phrase that sounds like it came straight from the playbook of Germany’s AfD or Martin Sellner - and yet it comes from the America of 2025: “Denaturalize. Deport. Remigrate.” ...
Divine Submission – A Sermon from the White House
Sometimes, a return to darkness doesn’t begin with a thunderclap, but with a microphone and a sentence that sounds like it was lifted from a 1425 catechism. “God has an order,” ...
„Einer der größten Einsätze aller Zeiten“ – Hegseths Verteidigung der Iran-Schläge bleibt vage, scharf und zutiefst politisch
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the press at the Pentagon on Thursday – and what followed was less a military briefing than a rhetorical offensive. With General Dan Caine at his side, Hegseth praised ...
The New Vaccination Canon – How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Reshaping the CDC’s Immunization Panel and Breaking a Medical Taboo
Atlanta, June 25, 2025 – It was a premiere under high tension. For the first time, the newly appointed vaccination committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Historical Revision as Troop Morale? – Pete Hegseth Defends Renaming US Military Bases After Slaveholding Generals
Washington, June 2025 – It was a statement that struck the Senate like a slap in the face: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that renaming several US military bases after Confederate generals was ...
The Man Who Freed MAGA - Trump Declares Fox News a Public Enemy
Washington, June 19, 2025 - Once upon a time, there was a network that loved Donald Trump. It broadcast him in high gloss, warmed him in prime-time slots, and rolled out the red carpet ...
Oliver Kornetzke - Courage and Clarity in Kiel’s Conservative Culture War
It was a case that turned a small rural town in Wisconsin into a nationwide symbol in America’s culture war: In the spring of 2022, three middle school students in Kiel were accused ...
The Big Lie of Donald Trump – How His Promises to Farmers and Hoteliers Turned Out to Be a Farce
Washington – It may have been the last remnant of economic common sense in an administration increasingly driven by deterrence, fear, and ideology. Donald Trump had promised to "protect our farmers" – even publicly stating on social ...
Between Corridor and Conscience – The Arrest of Brad Lander and the Silence of the Law
New York, June 17, 2025 – It was a morning like many in the stuffy hallways of the federal building at 26 Federal Plaza, where day after day, migrants fight for their right to stay. Brad Lander, ...
Trump’s Iran stance divides the MAGA movement - and the White House loses all restraint
It was a moment that laid bare the full political disarray of the United States. As Donald Trump sat aboard Air Force One, flying back from an abruptly ended G7 summit in Canada, ...
Republicans Revise Trump’s Mega-Bill – and Send the First Victims to the Front Lines
It was Donald Trump’s grand promise – a “big beautiful bill” meant to overhaul America’s economy, reward his voters, and leave opponents speechless. But as soon as the House approved their draft, the Republican-controlled Senate ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
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, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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