Category Power Structures

The Neutral General – and Who Pays Him – Part 1

They appear on television to explain war, arms deliveries and military rearmament - introduced as independent retired generals. What audiences are rarely told is that some of them simultaneously advise companies connected to the defence industry. Drawing on an official lobbying register, a personal confirmation and a corporate announcement, this investigation exposes the commercial ties left undisclosed by British and German media - and asks what this silence means for a public debate involving weapons, national security and billions in defence spending.

Flying Blind, Locked Away-What the Foreign Ministry Knew and Sealed for Five Years

Fifteen million euros in taxpayers’ money, ignored security concerns, years of unchecked accounts - and two audit reports subsequently locked away from the public. Germany’s Federal Audit Office documented how the Foreign Office disregarded its own directives, failed to act on warnings from within the state apparatus, and funded Islamic Relief Germany partly “flying blind.” The records do not prove terrorist financing. What they do establish is a profound failure of oversight - and a five-year effort to keep that failure beyond public scrutiny.

Israel: The Child as Evidence

A new report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza focuses not only on the number of children killed, but on their significance as evidence. Drawing on documented cases, medical findings, identified military units and public statements, this analysis examines the Commission’s argument that the treatment of Palestinian children reveals an alleged genocidal intent. It also addresses the report’s limitations, Israel’s rebuttal and the absence of a final judicial ruling - before turning to Berlin, where the German government lifted arms-export restrictions on the grounds of a ceasefire during which children continued to be killed.

Genetic Engineering Without Labels

Ninety-two percent of Germans want to know whether their food has been produced using new genetic engineering techniques. Yet the European Parliament has decided that most of these products may enter the market from 2028 without risk assessment or consumer labelling. This is not merely a debate about CRISPR and plant breeding – it is about freedom of choice, patents and whose interests Brussels truly represents.

0:2 Against Germany’s Citizens

While Germany watches the FIFA World Cup, the Bundestag is deciding on legislation that will directly affect millions of citizens: higher health insurance costs, increased co-payments, biometric passport data in private hands, expanded powers for security agencies and restricted access to legal challenges. This does not prove a deliberate attempt to hide the legislation - but it does reveal a democratic problem: far-reaching decisions are being pushed through after exceptionally short consultation periods, during a week when public attention is focused almost entirely elsewhere.

Israel: Killing as a Product

A UN report identifies the corporations profiting from the war in Gaza. This analysis goes one level deeper: it examines how weapons, cloud infrastructure, AI systems, data platforms and financial markets merge into an industrialised killing chain - and why private corporations, despite documented involvement, almost never face accountability. The central question is no longer only who supplies the bombs, but who provides the digital architecture that makes targeting, surveillance and military decision-making scalable. Gaza emerges not merely as a battlefield, but as a testing ground for a new form of algorithmic warfare - shielded by corporate law, state interests and the global financial industry.

The Quiet Power Behind the Pump

Who really determines the price at the fuel pump? Not only oil companies, refineries or petrol stations - but also private price reporting agencies whose benchmarks shape the fuel wholesale market. When Germany’s Federal Cartel Office tried to examine this hidden pricing machinery, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court blocked key information requests, citing press freedom and source protection. The case exposes a power structure that reaches far beyond Germany: private data providers generate benchmark prices linked to billions in contracts, while public oversight runs into legal and transnational limits. An analysis of oil prices, competition law, market transparency and the quiet power behind the pump.

The Indispensable Third Party

Germany is facing proceedings before the International Court of Justice in the case Nicaragua v. Germany, accused of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions through arms exports to Israel and the temporary suspension of UNRWA funding. Yet Berlin is not primarily defending the substance of the allegations, but relying on jurisdictional objections, procedural timing and the argument that Israel is an “indispensable third party.” This analysis shows how a technical legal dispute becomes a political test case: does the rules-based order still apply when it is invoked against Western states themselves - or does it end where its own architects are called to account?

Minab: What Really Happened at the Shajareh-Tayyebeh School

On February 28, 2026, a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck the Shajareh-Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Iran. According to Iranian figures, at least 156 schoolgirls, teachers, and parents were killed. Washington points to outdated targeting data and calls it a tragic mistake. But the available evidence tells a far more troubling story: debris analysis, satellite imagery, Western weapons experts, congressional testimony, and legal assessments all point not to a weapon malfunction, but to a targeting-system failure. This analysis reconstructs what happened in Minab, why the official explanation does not hold, and why the case matters far beyond Iran: as a precedent for AI-assisted warfare, obsolete intelligence data, and the unresolved question of who is accountable when precision weapons hit precisely the wrong target.

Israel – The Finding: Genocide

What happens when the charge of genocide is no longer raised by activists or political rhetoric, but by mandated UN bodies, legal methodology and a converging evidentiary record? This article reconstructs the findings on Gaza, the industrial and technological machinery behind them, the role of Western states, and the decisive gap between documentation and consequence. From the UN Commission’s legal assessment to Francesca Albanese’s reports, from domicide and humanitarian obstruction to arms flows, corporate complicity and diplomatic shielding, the picture that emerges is not merely an accusation. It is a documented finding - and its lack of enforcement may be the most damning fact of all.