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 ...
It Is War in Minnesota – Deportation Wave Pushes the Justice System to the Brink – Government Attorney Breaks Down in Court – Human Rights Actors Use Protection Programs
A single moment at the federal court (U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota) in St. Minnesota has made visible how far the strain within the U.S. immigration system has now progressed. During a hearing, ...
Talks Under Fire – Abu Dhabi, Nights of Bombs, and the Limits of Reason
In Abu Dhabi, representatives of Russia and Ukraine have once again sat down at the same table, accompanied by the United States, while at the same time people in Ukraine were being buried under rubble, power plants ...
The release of new Epstein files confirms our investigation – Death in Cell 9 – Anatomy of an incident that never was an accident?
Jeffrey Epstein was no ordinary inmate. Not because of his notoriety, not because of his crimes, but because of the people connected to him within a system that prefers silence over accountability ...
Budapest Against Brussels – Hungary’s Lawsuit, Russian Gas, and the Battle Over Europe’s Energy Policy
Hungary is taking its case to the European Court of Justice and openly positioning itself against the European Union’s course of phasing out Russian gas imports. With its lawsuit against the REPowerEU regulation, Budapest is escalating a conflict that has long ...
Hanoi Expects a Second U.S. Invasion – An Internal Military Paper and the Logic of Fear
An internal document from Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense shows how deeply mistrust toward the United States still runs – even a year after relations were formally upgraded to the highest ...
Renee Good’s Brothers in the Capitol: “We Thought Her Death Would Change Something – It Didn’t”
Luke and Brent Ganger stood in the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday before members of Congress and said sentences that cannot be dismissed as a “statement.” They were family members who had to explain why their ...
Putin’s Word, Trump’s Shrug, and the Next Strike – Reality-Detached Scenarios
Washington responds soberly, almost routinely. The president shows no surprise that Russia has resumed its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. This comes after Vladimir Putin had previously pledged to refrain from attacking ...
Minneapolis, Nine in the Morning: When the State Raises Weapons Against Observers
In Minneapolis, federal agents drew weapons this morning and arrested legal observers. No armed individuals, no escalation, no flight. People who were documenting what was happening. American citizens. The pistols were off safety, ...
The Investigation into the Invisible Front – How ICE Built Its Own Security Realm in the Shadows
What investigations now reveal is a system that has expanded in secrecy over many years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer acts merely as a deportation authority. Internal documents in our possession ...
The Silent Listing – How ICE Builds Secret Lists Targeting Protesters and Journalists
In this case, it does not begin with a law and not with a public decision, but with a sentence spoken on the street. A masked federal officer mocks a protester and tells him that he is now in a database and is considered ...
Children Disappear on the Way to School – The Ongoing Case of Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is 10 years old, a fourth grader in Columbia Heights, part of her school community since kindergarten. On January 6, in the first week after winter break, she left ...
Doubts About Trump’s Mental Fitness Are Growing – Especially Among Republicans
Donald Trump used the question of mental fitness as a weapon for years. He aimed it at political opponents, at former officeholders, at anyone who stood in his way ...
Our Investigation Reveals – How Arab Monarchies, Trump, and the European Right Stabilize a System That Produces Wars, Instability, and Flight
At the end of December, Saudi fighter jets struck the Yemeni port city of Mukalla. According to Riyadh, the target was a weapons shipment supplied by the United Arab Emirates and intended for the Southern Transitional Council. What had ...
Our Investigation: The State Against Society – How the US Redefines Social Conflict as Terrorism and Europe Could Follow
The fixation on Greenland, on Arctic routes, rare earths, and geopolitical threat scenarios belongs to the public rituals of this administration. But while Donald Trump looks northward with ...
Back From Detention – How a Five Year Old Became a Symbol
When Liam Conejo Ramos arrived back in Minnesota on Sunday, it was not just a child returning home. It was the end of a week that showed how ...
A Sofa, Two Women, a Photo – and the Shadow That Remains
The latest release from the holdings of US justice authorities brings to light a constellation that stands out less for new allegations than for its simplicity. A sofa, two young women, Jeffrey ...
Investigations Reveal: Detention Without a Judge – How an Internal ICE Document Lowers the Threshold for Arrest
Quietly and without public debate, a new guideline has taken effect that massively expands the discretion of ICE officers. An internal memorandum, now disclosed in a federal court proceeding overseen by Judge Kate ...
The Fight Was Worth It – Liam Is Free – Judge Fred Biery Draws the Line Where a Child Sits in a Cage
Federal Judge Fred Biery has ruled that five year old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias must leave a Texas immigration detention facility no later than Tuesday. We have written about the case repeatedly and have also been actively involved ...
Shattered Skull, Shackled in the Hospital – The Alberto Castañeda Mondragón File
When federal agents brought a severely injured man to a hospital in Minneapolis, the nursing staff immediately knew that something was wrong. Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, 31 years old, had fractures to his face and skull, ...
A Judge, a Setback, Two Dead and an Escalation Without a Way Back
Minnesota has been living for weeks under a state of emergency that is not explained but imposed. Thousands of armed federal agents, streets filled with tactical gear, tear gas, gunfire, dead. Now a federal judge has rejected an attempt ...
Hundreds of thousands in the streets – a nationwide protest against ICE escalates
In cities across the United States, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Friday to demand an end to the brutal deportation policy of the Trump administration and to call for the withdrawal of federal ...
No end in sight – Epstein’s files and the open account
Three million more pages, plus thousands of videos and images – and then the sentence that this was supposed to be the final major release. That very contradiction hangs over everything ...
“We’ll just continue more smartly” – Minneapolis is increasingly becoming a powder keg
Laughter was the first reaction. Not out of relief, but out of bitterness. When Tom Homan, Trump’s new man for Minnesota, declared that the mission was not being abandoned, only continued ...
MELANIA: THE MOST EXPENSIVE NOTHING IN THE WORLD
Jeff Bezos spent forty million dollars to prove that even unlimited money can’t buy attention. Melania Trump pocketed another twenty-eight million and delivered a documentary about as gripping as an insurance policy ...
Investigations Show: Tariffs as an Illusion and Empty Show – How Trump’s Trade Policy Is Now Making the Deficit Explode
The numbers are clear, even if they are politically uncomfortable. In November, the United States trade deficit jumped sharply to 56.8 billion dollars - an increase of 95 percent within ...
Kyiv Freezes, Moscow Remains Silent, Washington Asks
One week. That is all the president of the United States asked for. Seven days of reprieve for a city of millions, while temperatures in Ukraine fall to levels at which power outages are not ...
We Are All Fighting for Liam – and the Right-Wing Agitation Against Liam
A five-year-old child is being held in detention, hundreds of miles from his home, sick, exhausted, withdrawn. Liam Conejo Ramos, five years old, was taken into custody by ICE in early January in Minnesota together with his father ...
Cabinet as a Show Stage – How Trump Demonstrates Power, Shifts Reality, and Pushes the Country to the Brink
An hour into the cabinet meeting, seven members of the administration had already delivered their remarks. Special envoys and the departments of finance, commerce, health, housing, energy, and the environment spoke one after ...
Eleven Days Earlier – The Escalation Before the Death
Eleven days before his death, Alex Pretti had already once been lying on the asphalt of Minneapolis. Not dead, but humiliated, surrounded by masked federal agents who dragged him to the ground while ...
JD Vance: Holocaust remembrance without perpetrators and victims
Josh Shapiro is governor of the US state of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, former attorney general, and one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in the country. He is considered legally precise, politically controlled, and restrained in his choice of words ...
Appeasement in Washington and Escalation on the Streets – Threats Against the Press and Minneapolis Remains in a State of Emergency
In Washington, the words suddenly sounded softer, staged and unconvincing, but softer. Donald Trump spoke of progress, of a similar sense of tact with Democratic Governor Tim Walz, of ...
Attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar – Power, Oil, and the Threat of Violence – Rubio’s Appearance and the New Venezuela
In Washington that day, the discussion was not only about Venezuela, but about control, about the limits of political power, and about the willingness to enforce it militarily if necessary. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared ...
Noem Home Alone – Kristi Noem and the Political Price of Minneapolis
In Washington, failure is rarely spoken of as openly as it is these days. The demand that Kristi Noem step down from office is not coming from one corner, not from a party headquarters, not from ...
Two shots, many excuses – and a state out of control
Two federal officers fired. Not one, two. Both discharged their weapons in the encounter that cost intensive care nurse Alex Pretti his life in Minneapolis. This emerges from a ...
ICE crosses another line
In Minneapolis, officers of the US immigration agency ICE attempted to enter the Ecuadorian consulate without permission. Not covertly, not by mistake, but in broad daylight, at a door clearly marked as a diplomatic mission ...
The fear of the narcissist – and another incident at the US-Mexico border
Donald Trump is suddenly speaking of clarification. Of decency. Of an “honest” investigation. After the fatal shooting of the demonstrator and ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the president said on Tuesday ...
The day begins well – When the rule of law takes back command
Federal Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has done something that is rare in its clarity: he has personally summoned the leadership ...
Secret Honorarium in a Horse’s Name - How Kristi Noem Enriched Herself With Political Donations
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
Washington Pushes Back – Governor and Attorney General Warn Homeland Security Against Violating the Law
The tone from the states is growing sharper. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nicholas Brown state that unconstitutional actions ...
Withdrawal Announced, Pressure Remains – Minneapolis Forces Movement in Washington
In Minneapolis, movement is emerging for the first time in the deadlocked situation surrounding the immigration operations. As we had already learned earlier from reliable sources , Mayor Jacob Frey has now confirmed ...
Bovino falls – and suddenly it goes quiet!
Within hours, the narrative collapses. According to internal information, Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino has had access to his social media accounts revoked - effective immediately. Shortly afterward came the next step: ...
LIVE: Power Struggle in Minnesota Turns Into a Political Wildfire
24 Kaizen Live Dienstag, 27.01.2026 · 01:30, Ende der Berichterstattung Prettis Schwester kritisiert Regierung Die jüngere Schwester von Alex Pretti hat am Montag ein Statement veröffentlicht, in dem sie ihren…
Minneapolis in Court - Two Dead, Videos, a State Under Pressure
In Minneapolis, a deadly operation has turned into a far-reaching political and legal confrontation. Thousands of people marched through the city on Sunday to express their anger over the death of a local resident ...
Why the Opposition Is Missing - and Why We Still Provide It
Anyone who opens X today does not end up where they end up by chance. The homepage feels like a constant barrage of right-wing claims, sharpened misrepresentations, and the same recurring narrative patterns ...
Coffee and Donuts Instead of Confrontation - The National Guard and an Unusual Moment in Minneapolis
In front of a federal building in Minneapolis, an image emerged in recent hours that in its simplicity says more than any official statement. Members of the National Guard stand among demonstrators, handing out coffee, donuts, ...
Cracks in the Party - How the Death of Alex Pretti Is Turning Even Republicans Against the Federal Government
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti has triggered a development that for a long time was considered unthinkable even within the Republican Party. For the first time since the start of the ...
Film Night at the Center of Power
While the shots in Minneapolis were still echoing and videos were documenting the horrific death of Alex Pretti at the hands of a federal officer, the White House opened its doors on Saturday evening for an exclusive ...
Green Smoke, Harsh Chemicals - What ICE Is Really Using in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, a substance appeared in recent days that initially left many people puzzled. Not the familiar white or gray clouds, but a dense, green-colored smoke ...
Live: Fatal ICE Operation in Minneapolis
Zum Artikel: Schüsse im Gedränge – Minneapolis am Rand der Eskalation – Das war Mord Dieses Bild der New York Times ist eine Mahnung, eine Mahnung, dass ein unschuldiger Mensch…