Blow to Trump: Senate rules key Medicaid cut inadmissible - more conflict looms
A central element of Donald Trump's heavily touted legislative package of tax cuts, spending reductions, and border enforcement has been thrown into doubt: ...
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,” ...
"They want to get rid of him - at any cost": The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia before the US court
Nashville, Tennessee - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose unlawful deportation has become a symbol of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, pleaded not guilty on Friday in a federal court in Tennessee...
Trump's New Golden Age – The Dollar Drops to Its Knees
The return of the “dealmaker” has ushered in a new era of greatness – at least for fans of 1970s nostalgia. The US dollar has lost more than 10% of its value in the first half of 2025 ...
Hannibal Lecter as a Campaign Ally - Trump’s Dangerous Game of Fear and Mockery
It was one of those statements where it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between cynicism and calculated fearmongering: “People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? ...
„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 ...
America's Downturn – Trump's Tariff Policy Causes First US Economic Contraction in Three Years
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
The Price of Justice – Kilmar Abrego Garcia between Hope, Detention, and Deceit
Nashville, Tennessee – In a country that prides itself on being a beacon of freedom and the rule of law, a man sits in handcuffs – not because of guilt, but because of a dilemma the government created itself. Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
A Garden of Idols - Monument Dream Faces the Wrath of the Sioux
n the shadow of the stone presidential heads of Mount Rushmore - among rocks, forests, and the memories of a broken treaty - a project is taking shape that does not heal America's wounds but deepens them: ...
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 ...
Don’t Say a Word - We’re Already Blocking
It was a debut both expected - and algorithmically assisted. No sooner had U.S. Vice President JD Vance logged into the delicately coded world of Bluesky on June 18, 2025, than he had done it: ...
"Say Daddy" – When the NATO Summit Turns Into Reality TV
It was a moment that, even in the era of Donald Trump, remained a rarity. On an open stage, under the full spotlight of the NATO summit in the Netherlands, political seriousness dissolved completely - with just one single, adoringly inappropriate word: "Daddy."
"The bomb didn’t fall on Iran - but on Donald’s own truth"
It was one of those scenes in which political power lays over actual events like a thin sheet, barely able to conceal the truth beneath. In The Hague, where Donald Trump appeared as a guest at the NATO summit, drenched in sweat and full of his ...
When the President Becomes a Parody of Himself – Donald Trump as a Clown in Black on His Own Behalf
There are videos that don’t need explaining - they expose. They don’t just show a face - they reveal an entire mindset. The 2:49-minute video that Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social ...
Have You Heard the One About the Trumps?
Donald J. Trump – Nobel Peace Prize. You really have to let that melt slowly on your tongue. Like a double cheeseburger from Mar-a-Lago, marbled with raw self-aggrandizement and the ketchup of global politics...
Truth in Ruins – What the Iran Strikes Really Triggered
It was a nighttime strike of immense symbolic power - and yet its echo could not sound more hollow. On June 22, 2025, in a military operation titled "Operation Midnight Hammer," ...
NATO, bombs and insults
It began, as always, with a screenshot. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and the first person to make diplomatic communication public via Signal screenshot, delivered once again. This time, it was a message from ...
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...
A State with a Black Mask - How Narciso Barranco Became the Face of a Repressive America
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
The End of the 12-Day War - Trump Announces Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran
Tel Aviv / Tehran / Washington - It was a morning between hope and rubble: On Tuesday, Israel and Iran agreed to the ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, thus marking - at least for now - an end to an unprecedented twelve-day war ...
Ceasefire or Wishful Thinking? - Trump's Triumphant Claim Meets Iranian Denial
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv – In the early hours of June 24, 2025, the war between Israel and Iran seemed to have reached a turning point – at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump ...
A Judgment Against Humanity – The Supreme Court Gives Trump Green Light for Deportations to Third Countries
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
Donald J. Trump’s Nuclear Submarines – Or: How to Explain the World with 30 Tomahawks
Washington, June 23, 2025 – When Donald Trump mentions a nuclear submarine, it’s not because it sails underwater. It’s because – in his words – it is “the most technologically superior, ...
"MIGA!!!" - How Trump Embarrasses His Own Government and Destroys a Fellow Republican
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
The Next Front: Explosions in Qatar After Iranian Threat - Trump's War Expands
Doha / Tehran / Jerusalem - It was only a matter of time before the shadows of the new war fell over additional countries. In the early hours of Monday, several explosions shook the Gulf region - of all places, ...
Market in Holding Pattern - How Wall Street and Oil Prices Are Reacting to Trump’s Strike on Iran
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
How the U.S. Strike on Iran Is Turning the Middle East Into a Firestorm
Tehran / Tel Aviv / Washington – With targeted airstrikes on three military sites in Iran, the U.S. military directly entered the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic on Sunday evening ...
The Veteran’s Wife – How ICE Ripped a Young Mother and Wife of a U.S. Marine Out of Everyday Life
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
When Intolerance Falls Flat - “Hetero Awesome Fest” in Boise Fails Spectacularly
Boise, Idaho – June 2025 - Announced with much pathos and grand rhetoric, the self-proclaimed “Hetero Awesome Fest” on June 20 and 21 in Boise turned out to be a prime example of the pitiful attempt to replace ...
Between Justice and Deportation – Judge Orders Release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but ICE Plans to Detain Him Again
Nashville, Tennessee – June 23, 2025 - A case that has long become symbolic of President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation policy took a new turn over the weekend: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ...
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