When Law Becomes a Luxury
The new Human Rights Watch report reads not like a warning, but like an accounting. What was considered secure for decades – human rights, democratic institutions, rule-of-law boundaries ...
Greenland as a Pretext – How Trump Claims a Threat and Europe Learns to Say No
Between Washington, Brussels, and Copenhagen, descriptions of the same situation have now diverged so widely that they can no longer be explained by differing perspectives. President Trump speaks of an insecure island, ...
“No One Becomes Homeless in Germany.” - How One Sentence Makes the Dead Invisible
Germany counts a lot. Income, employment, inflation, new housing. But it does not count how many homeless people die. Not nationwide, not consistently, not continuously. Those who die become part of the general mortality statistics ...
Minneapolis Is More Than a Warning – the Struggle for Democracy Has Long Reached Europe
On Monday, federal agents advance in formation in Minneapolis. No conversation, no hesitation, only enforcement. In the front row stands a woman. She holds a sign, makes the peace sign ...
After Maduro – who does he dream of next? Trump’s threats against Greenland, Cuba, and Colombia
One day after the US military seizure in Venezuela, Donald Trump sharpens his tone – and expands the circle of targets. While Nicolás Maduro is in US custody, the president openly speaks ...
Arrest at Dawn - Maduro Taken Out of the Country, Trump Confirms US Operation
The news came shortly before sunrise and hit Caracas like a blow: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has been arrested and taken out of the country. Donald Trump confirmed this early Saturday ...
91 Drones, No Evidence, and More Kremlin Fairy Tales
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin personally informed him that Ukraine had attempted to attack one of his residences with drones. A serious accusation, made at a sensitive moment ...
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, ...
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 ...
Trump’s Junior Insults Against Ukraine – “Poor Peasants” at the Front
Donald Trump Jr. sat on stage at the Doha Forum on December 7, 2025, confident and arrogant as always, and spoke about Ukraine as if he were describing a country ...
Order to Kill? How Trump’s Boat War Suddenly Becomes a Question of War Crimes
In Washington, nerves are rising this weekend over an operation that was originally presented as part of a routine anti-drug effort. For months, the administration has ordered boats off the coast of Latin America to be fired upon, ...
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed and the Next Stage of Escalation
President Trump said a few days ago that the United States could "very soon" expand its campaign of killing suspected drug smugglers at sea to attacks on targets in Venezuela ...
The Liar with the Red Cap - Trump’s Energy World: Promised Oil, Delivered Crises - a Political Style the AfD Copies
Donald Trump acted for a year as if he could flip the country with a switch: more oil, more gas, more drilling, fewer rules, fewer environmental standards ...
An Ending Without Direction - Why the Climate Conference in Brazil Is a Warning Signal for the World
The world has taken another step toward dangerous warming - but not in the fight against it. In Belém, in the heart of the Amazon, this year’s UN climate conference ...
When Belém Shines and Berlin Stumbles - a Sentence That Shames a Government
Belém - Friedrich Merz apparently wanted to share only a brief impression after his return from Belém. What followed was nationwide criticism in Brazil, accusations of arrogance, xenophobia and a President Lula who did not hesitate ...
The world is burning – and in Belém the streets are demanding answers
Belém showed this weekend what happens when a climate summit does not take place in sterile halls but in the middle of a city that breathes, sweats and struggles. Thousands of people moved through the streets, colorful, loud and ...
Die Wut der Menschen, die eine ganze Nation ins Zittern bringt
Veracruz – Mexiko erlebte an diesem Wochenende einen Ausbruch, der sich schon lange angebahnt hatte. In mehr als 50 Städten strömten Menschen auf die Straßen, vereint durch eine Mischung aus…
The Burning Point of Belém – How the World Falters on Ending the Fossil Era
Belém, Brazil – These days, Belém is not only the gateway to the Amazon but the place where it will be decided whether the world is ready to take its own future seriously ...
Fire Over the Caribbean Sea and the Phantom in the Mediterranean, Jordan Goudreau - While Venezuela’s Military Trains Civilians
The Trump administration has, within a few weeks, established a new pattern of power: it defines war so that it no longer looks like war and claims it is therefore not subject to legal limits ...
The President of Hot Air - How Trump Is Losing the Trade War and Even Toyota Contradicts Him
Donald Trump wanted to make history this week. A new chapter of strength, of the “Return of America.” Instead, the world is witnessing a president who sees himself as the greatest dealmaker fail at the reality ...
The New and Old Crusaders - Right-Wing Populism, Racism, and the Return of Delusion
There are moments when one wonders whether history repeats itself - or whether it is simply mocking us. Friedrich Merz: Talks like someone eager to please ...
A President Chops the World Apart - and Everyone Keeps Watching
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
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 ...
The Next Court Defeat – How a Federal Judge Stopped Trump’s Wind Farm Sabotage
Donald Trump wanted to make a statement: offshore wind power should die long before it had the chance to change America. But it was precisely the judiciary, which he so ...
Trump Wants to Remove “Inappropriate” Material from National Parks
The government of Donald Trump is currently reviewing signs, exhibits and even books in the United States’ national parks – with the aim of removing everything that, in its view, ...
Kaizen to Listen To – Against the Silence of the World
From now on you can also have all our Kaizen articles read aloud to you. With one click on the play button, our investigations become voices that accompany you - whether on the go, while exercising, ...
The Crusade Against the Wind – How Trump is Sabotaging America’s Energy Transition
It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
Project 2025 – Trump’s Masterplan for the Destruction of the Planet
Weeks of research have brought to light a shocking picture that in its scope even surpasses pessimistic forecasts. The United States is experiencing under the second Trump administration an unprecedented reversal of decades of environmental protection policy, ...
The End of the Climate Watchers: How Trump Is Destroying Humanity's Most Important CO₂ Satellites – And Why the World Knows Nothing About It
An investigative report on the systematic shutdown of the NASA missions OCO-2 and OCO-3, the silence of mainstream media, and the catastrophic consequences for the future We also ask for your support ...
Our research shows: "Northern Lights" turns exhaust gases into a billion-dollar business
(Reading time approximately 25 minutes) The Vision at the End of the World On Norway's rugged west coast, where fjords cut deep into the land and the Atlantic ...
The Green Revolution from Mexico – How Cactus Plastic Could Change the World
Amidst the dry heat of Guadalajara, where cacti root in dusty soil and the sun beats relentlessly from the sky, one of the most promising answers to one of the greatest environmental crises ...
America's Climate Policy at a Crossroads - Trump's Radical Course and Global Tensions
The administration of US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that it intends to revoke a central scientific cornerstone of American climate policy - a decision that would have far-reaching consequences for environmental and public ...
The Gap of Responsibility - How China and Europe Are Filling the Green Vacuum Left by America
It is a moment of global significance, wrapped in a sober diplomatic formulation: China and the European Union on Thursday committed to a joint climate initiative.
Our investigation shows: Trump is effectively engaging in climate and weather terrorism
It doesn’t begin with a thunderclap. It begins with silence. With the voice that no longer warns. With the data that no longer arrives. With weather services standing empty ...
Water Levels from the Desert - Why Friedrich Merz Is Not a Chancellor for the 21st Century
When Friedrich Merz talks about climate, he sounds a bit like an insurance agent trying to downplay hail damage by pointing out that the sun will probably shine tomorrow.
"We Had Five Minutes" - How the Remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal Flooded North Carolina
It was a storm that had already lost its name - and yet claimed a life. In the early hours of Monday, the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal turned ...
Storm Warning from Washington - How Trump's Allies Want to Destroy America's Weather Services and Project 2025 Provides the Blueprint
What is more dangerous - a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico or a strategy document from the White House? If the planners of the "2025 Presidential Transition Project"
The Warning That Came Too Late - How Trump's Austerity Crippled the Weather Alert System in Texas
When the first raindrops hit the roof of the camp, the girls were already asleep. Hours later, the Guadalupe River had become a raging beast - and a summer camp a death trap.
Blind Flight Into the Storm - How the Pentagon Is Cutting Off the World's Weather Vision
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
Swamp of Shame – Protests Against the New Deportation Camp “Alligator Alcatraz”
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
Fireworks of the Rich, Silence of the Many – Protests in Venice
Venice, June 23, 2025 – It was a symbolic moment that not only drew attention but cast a political spotlight on the relationship between power, money, and public space: activists from Greenpeace Italy, together with the British initiative “Everyone Hates Elon,” unfurled a huge banner in the middle of St. Mark’s Square ...
Rollback by Design - Trump’s E.P.A. Overturns Asbestos Ban in Favor of Industry
Washington - It is a move that leaves many stunned: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider the ban on white asbestos - the last form ...
Trump Sells Dreams – And the Echo Resounds Through the West
In the boundless expanse of Arizona, where windmills slice the horizon and barbed wire preserves the memory of another century, an old man wrestles with time. Brantley Baird, 88 years old, a man of weathered skin ...
"We Can’t Breathe Anymore" – The Last Stand on the Gulf Coast
It begins with a promise. "Energy dominance," the government calls it. Another word for the subjugation of entire landscapes – and the people who live there. In southern Louisiana, where the air smells of salt and houses cast barely any shadow ...
Between Pipeline and Protest - How Trump's New Environmental Policy Is Burning Alaska
It begins with an image straight out of the textbook of fossil power politics: a government plane lands on the Arctic airstrip of Prudhoe Bay. Next to it, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline rises from the ground - a rusting steel artery, a symbol of an ...
Lost Time – How Michael Kretschmer Is Dismantling Germany’s Climate Consensus
They are words that sound as if from another era. While Europe groans under heatwaves, extreme weather destroys harvests, and insurance companies begin pulling out of entire regions, Michael Kretschmer strikes ...
Five Steps Back - How America’s Supreme Court Sacrificed Environmental Protection for Oil
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
Darkness at Sea
How Trump's Budget Cuts Drain the Lifeblood of the Oceans. It is night on the Pacific. The waves rise like invisible mountains, the wind pulls at the masts, and beneath the feet ...
The Abyss Beneath Us
Deep-Sea Mining as a Borderline Between Progress and Destruction On April 24, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that promises nothing less than the industrial conquest of the last untouched region of our planet:
The Green Pearl of Arsanjan – A Natural Wonder in the Heart of the Desert
In the vast expanses of Iran's Fars Province, where the landscape is shaped by rocks, dry earth, and sparse vegetation, there exists a natural wonder that inspires awe – the Green Pearl of Arsanjan in the Fars Province of Iran.