Investigative Journalism
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 ...
Björn Höcke, in his latest speech, once again showed how far he has moved away from the foundations of a free country. He claims that Germany is not worth defending ...
Alice Weidel suggests that one should "send back" Ukrainians of military age before Germany even talks about its own soldiers. A sentence delivered with such thoughtlessness, as if she were talking about shipments that were misdelivered ...
Tino Chrupalla once again tried to present himself as someone who wants to keep distance from the most radical voices in his own party. But he cannot do it, and that shows how radical this party ...
Tino Chrupalla has long lost any threshold of decency. As soon as Donald Trump presents his 28-point plan, the AfD leadership jumps on it like someone who has been waiting for a signal to finally say: ...
A report on the radicalization of youth between algorithms and fear. The Concert. July 2025. Under the Croatian summer sky, music thunders over a crowd that stretches to the horizon ...
The rain lashed in irregular showers across Westminster Bridge as, on that September Saturday in 2025, a mass of people formed like London had rarely seen. Hundreds of thousands poured through the streets ...
For years, Charlie Kirk and the milieus of the extreme right were adversaries. For neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and militias like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, Kirk was not an ally but an obstacle ...
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
Alice Weidel, the unfit fairy tale maiden, Putin puppet and icon of the AfD sect, has once again impressively demonstrated that she possesses neither class, respect nor empathy: She has withdrawn into the parallel world in which ...
It is a strange reflex of German politics to look across the Atlantic with a mixture of horror and a secret fascination whenever the wrecking ball once again swings through democratic ...
With a single post on his platform Truth Social on August 6, 2025, President Donald Trump made it clear that he is ready to intervene in the self-governance of the capital ...
There is propaganda that does not just leave you speechless - it reveals a deep cynicism toward its own voters. Anyone who follows the public statements of Maximilian Krah ...
It is a sunny July day in Vienna, but what is happening in the city center is an affront to every democratic society. Yellow flags, martial slogans, smoke bombs, ...
Something is happening in Hungary - a lot, in fact. That became clear to us in February when we traveled to Budapest to investigate several topics: a clandestine meeting and concert of ...
Chemnitz/Stade, July 2025 – It was an appearance that should never have happened - and yet it did. Martin Sellner, the central figure of the so-called “Identitarian Movement”
Follow-up to our previous article on the Compact ruling: Sometimes a glance at Telegram is enough to grasp how far the republic has fallen. Martin Sellner, convicted right-wing extremist, chief ideologue of “remigration,” ...
It doesn’t begin with violence. It begins with words. With so-called “opinions” that in truth are directed against the dignity of others. The ruling of the Federal Administrative Court on June 24, 2025, is therefore more than a legal event ...
When Maximilian Krah appears in public, it is rarely without calculation. The AfD politician, long controversial for his proximity to far-right networks and his role in European scandals, likes to present himself as the intellectual ...
On June 19 – the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned of their freedom – the White House remained conspicuously silent. President Donald Trump, who had publicly ...
It is a digital nightmare that is hard to surpass: On June 18 and 19, 2025, it became public that more than 16 billion stolen login credentials had surfaced online ...
What lies there is not a cemetery. It is a sewage tank. And inside it: the mortal remains of 796 children – from newborns to nine-year-olds. Buried beneath a patch of grass, in the middle of a housing estate in western Ireland, ...
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
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” ...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
It was just one word: “Correct!” But it was enough to express a political commitment with a clarity rarely seen. Alice Weidel, chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, ...
It is a sentence that cuts deep: “Tranquila, ma. Aquí estoy yo” - “Calm down, Mom. I’m here.” Spoken by a small boy who has to watch as his mother is arrested by ICE agents in San ...
It’s only four words, but they reveal everything - “I love Viktor Orbán.” With this sentence, Alice Weidel, chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, finally dropped the last remnants of her democratic mask at this year’s CPAC 2025 in Budapest. The stage - a right-wing carnival of authoritarian self-adoration...
It is just a word. And yet it acts like an explosive device in political language: remigration. Donald Trump uses it as if it were bureaucratic jargon. As if it referred to return assistance, applications, orderly procedures...
Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, ...
On Saturday, May 24, 2025, the far-right group Patriot Front marched through downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Members – identifiable by their white face coverings, khaki pants, and navy-blue shirts ...
It was the summer when the world stood still - because of a virus that crossed borders, and because of a video that no one could ever forget. On May 25, 2020, a white police ...
There are stories that creep like poisonous vines through the digital thicket, invisible yet deadly. Terrorgram is one such story. A network of far-right Telegram channels that spreads like ...
Our investigation delves deep into the heart of a movement that no longer organizes in secrecy but openly trains, marches, and recruits. It is not merely a network of right-wing ideologues; ...
Everyday Racism, Unfortunately Even in Germany... It's a Sunday like any other. I get on the bus to visit my father. At the stop where I get on, there is a driver change, ...
How Trump’s USA Welcomes South Africa’s Far-Right Extremists. For weeks, we investigated – conducted interviews, analyzed documents, traced networks. The picture that emerged was a disturbing one: a grotesque, dangerous reality in which the Trump administration ...
How Ashram Shambala Spanned a Global Network of Fear from Siberia to Argentina It begins in the cold of Siberia. A nondescript young man, Konstantin Dmitrievich Rudnev, returns in 1989 from a ...
How Trump Is Undermining Control Over the Threat Within Our investigation leads deep into the heart of a movement that no longer hides in the shadows. It trains, marches, and recruits in the open.
It begins with a personnel change but ends in a rupture of institutional foundations: Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, is dismissed. No scandal. No public fallout. Just a statement ...
In times when democracy is under attack from within, its enemies often masquerade as its guardians. Björn Höcke, ideological leader and head of the radical-right wing of the AfD, offers a ruthless ...
It’s a scene George Orwell might have written, had he lived long enough to see satire become biography. In an office once built for the solemnity of state, Laura Loomer sits - a woman once banned from social media for calling 9/11 an “inside job” ...
The world is spinning faster, but where is it headed? What seemed undeniable yesterday is now being questioned, distorted, and manipulated. The past disappears, memory is erased, and in the end, a new reality emerges
The Scandal of Russian Influence, the AfD, the Role of Intelligence Agencies, an Informant, and Blood and Honour. How Russia, with the Help of the Far Right, Becomes a Global Threat. Investigations by the BBC and various investigative ...
The AfD’s call to increase the birth rate as an instrument of ethnic-nationalist ideology - This is how the AfD still ticks. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has repeatedly aligned itself with nationalist and ethnocentric themes ...
The numbers keep rising, and authorities seem increasingly unable to counter them. There is a lack of trained personnel, decisive action, and above all, a clear strategy to stop this development...
There are moments when you have to wonder if anyone in this country is still paying attention. While a climate activist in Bavaria is not allowed to become a teacher because her activism is supposedly incompatible with the constitution, ...
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