Category Power Structures

“Money Is No Object”

47,000 procurement contracts, 111 billion euros, four years of Germany's so-called Zeitenwende - and the Federal Ministry of Defence cannot centrally account for what has actually been delivered and is combat-ready. The Federal Audit Office has been warning about exactly this in writing since 2022. The political response is not a course correction but a doubling down: the defence budget is set to reach 180 billion euros by 2030, with the debt brake effectively suspended for military spending. An analysis of how uncontrolled expenditure becomes institutional architecture.

Insider Trading Before Caracas

Donald Trump admitted on live television that he had informed oil companies in advance of a planned military operation. A hedge fund billionaire had purchased a Venezuelan refinery group six weeks earlier at half its appraised value. A Special Forces soldier bet on Maduro's fall using classified knowledge - and was arrested. Three trails, one pattern: how foreign policy decisions and private wealth accumulation have merged into a single architecture in the United States.

Israel: What the UN Committee against Torture Found – Part 2

On 22 December 2025, the UN Committee against Torture published its concluding observations on Israel's sixth periodic review. What they contain is stronger than most reports suggest: the Committee sees evidence pointing to a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture - and references findings that name war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the actus reus of genocide.

Epstein: Money Laundering, Drugs, Redacted Names – and No Indictment

A 69-page DEA memo, buried for years and released heavily redacted in January 2026: from 2010 onward, Jeffrey Epstein was the target of a federal investigation at the level of transnational organized crime - for drug trafficking and money laundering, with bank accounts across four jurisdictions and 14 redacted co-targets. Not a single indictment followed. The prosecutors who charged Epstein with sex trafficking in 2018 knew nothing about it. Today, Senator Ron Wyden is fighting active resistance from the Justice Department to obtain the unredacted files - while two major banks reported billions in suspicious transactions only after Epstein's death. A trail through the money, the structures, and what did not happen.

Israel: The System Behind the Bars – Part 1

Torture in Israeli detention facilities is not a loss of control - it is the product of a legal and institutional framework that enables abuse, conceals it, and keeps it free from consequences. Three special-law instruments, three agencies, zero indictments in two years: A reconstruction of the detention architecture that has been systematically expanded since 7 October 2023.

EU-“War-Ready in Three Weeks” – Part 5

Europe never voted for an army – it quietly built one. Under the technocratic label PESCO, the EU has assembled a deployable military structure, operational within weeks. This article exposes how European war-fighting capability was constructed without public debate, democratic mandate, or formal declaration – and why only the trigger is still missing.

Sudan – The Forgotten Massacre

El-Fasher, October 2025: more than 6,000 people killed in 72 hours. The UN calls it genocide. The world looks away - not out of ignorance, but out of calculation. Who supplies the weapons? Who buys the gold? Who sits at the table as a "peacemaker" while its cargo flights deliver ammunition? Michael Hollister follows the interests - and finds an architecture of silence that is not a failure. It is the system.

Israel – Agronomic Warfare

On February 1, 2026, Israeli forces instructed UN peacekeepers to take cover - then military aircraft spent nine hours spraying glyphosate at 20 to 30 times normal agricultural concentrations over civilian farmland in southern Lebanon. The same pattern, the same aircraft, the same substances: documented in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza over more than a decade. What bombs begin, herbicides complete. No ceasefire detoxifies a field.

Iran: The Camel Hacks Back – Part 2

The West taught Iran cyberwarfare. Not intentionally - but systematically. When the NSA and Israeli intelligence launched the Stuxnet worm into Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, they believed they were targeting a technologically inferior adversary. They were targeting a civilization more than three thousand years old, with millions of highly trained engineers - and they handed it the most effective blueprint for modern cyber weapons ever involuntarily shared. What followed was no accident: Shamoon in 2012, the Sands Casino attack in 2014, Handala in 2026. Each step a direct response to a Western provocation. Each step more precise than the last. Build Stuxnet, and you get Handala. That's not punishment. That's physics.

GAZA-Made in the USA – Part 2 – The End of Accountability

Part two shifts the focus from the rubble in Gaza to the centers of power in Washington and Berlin. It shows that the central question is not only which weapons were delivered, but why the political and legal mechanisms of control failed - or were deliberately dismantled. From National Security Memorandum 20 to the Leahy Law and the Arms Export Control Act, a picture emerges of a system in which the relevant rules do exist, yet are not enforced when it matters most. The removal of reporting obligations, the bypassing of congressional scrutiny, and the institutional silence of the responsible agencies do not merely suggest bureaucratic failure, but a possible transition into a new phase: the end of accountability.