Why Did Trump Give America’s Struggling Economy an “A+++”?

Dec 10, 2025 | Trump gave the economy an “A+++” even as Americans struggle to pay for groceries. Steve Schmidt explains Trump’s insanity and why MAGA is losing ground with voters.

Trump is a corrupt clown and his economy is sh**, except perhaps for the superrich. Kick the B out of the White House asap! — © Mark Alexander

Pleiten auf Rekordhoch, Haushalte verarmen – und Merz hat immer noch keinen Plan

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Während immer mehr Firmen kippen und Haushalte ins Minus rutschen, fährt die Industrie laut Ifo-Institut ihre Investitionen drastisch zurück. Wo ist Merz? Ein Kommentar.

Vor wenigen Tagen meldete das Jüdische Krankenhaus Berlin nach 260 Jahren Insolvenz in Eigenverwaltung an, ausgelöst durch Reformdruck, Sparbeschlüsse und explodierende Kosten. Kurz davor fiel in Thüringen die 116 Jahre alte Porzellanmarke Könitz, die zwei Weltkriege, die DDR-Planwirtschaft und die Nachwendezeit überstand, aber nicht mehr die Kombination aus Rechtsstreit und steigenden Produktionskosten.

Und nun rutscht mit Mocopinus auch ein traditionsreicher Holzverarbeiter in die Insolvenz – mit Sitz in Ulm und Standorten unter anderem in Leipzig. Und das ausgerechnet in einer Branche, die eigentlich boomt. » | Liudmila Kotlyarova | Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2025

Brics: Ende von Dollar-Dominanz und Sanktionen? Russland testet erstmals goldgedeckte Kryptowährung

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Die Brics kommen mit der Entwicklung einer Gemeinschaftswährung voran. Treibt Trump mit seinen Drohungen selbst skeptische Länder wie Indien aus dem Dollar-System?

Die westlichen Sanktionen gegen Russland, China und andere Staaten haben zahlreiche Regierungen dazu veranlasst, eine Alternative zum Dollar-dominierten Swift-Zahlungssystem zu suchen. Der Streit innerhalb der EU, wie mit den Milliarden an eingefrorenem russischen Zentralbankvermögen umgegangen werden soll, verdeutlicht, dass die Glaubwürdigkeit des westlich dominierten Finanzsystems auf dem Spiel steht.

Innerhalb der Brics-Gruppe – Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China und Südafrika – wird seit dem Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs intensiv darüber diskutiert, wie die Dollar-Dominanz gebrochen und somit ein wirksamer Schutz gegen westliche Sanktionen eingeführt werden kann. » | Simon Zeise | Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2025

Blood Money : Financial Secrets of the Third Reich - Episode 1 : How to Finance a War ? | PURE WW2

When Hitler seized power in 1933, war was already his endgame. Violence lay at the heart of Nazi ideology: the strong must dominate, the weak must fall. But there was a problem—Germany had no modern army, no weapons, and an economy worn down by years of crisis. Far from the myth of a thriving Reich, the country was a middling power, no stronger than a present-day regional state. The Nazi regime then launched one of the most audacious financial operations of the 20th century. Through secret debt schemes, industrial coercion and massive state manipulation, they rebuilt the economy by pouring resources into weapons production.

In 1939, Hitler finally plunged Europe into war — a war financed entirely on credit, using looted assets and anticipated spoils as collateral. A conflict born from a financial illusion that could only survive through expansion.

Democracy Now! New Yorker Mag Reveals Trump Family's Frenzy to Cash In on the White House

Aug 20, 2025 | How much is Trump pocketing off the presidency?" That's the question driving a major new investigation by journalist David D. Kirkpatrick in The New Yorker, which finds that the first family has been leveraging its place atop U.S. politics to rake in billions. According to Kirkpatrick, Donald Trump and his immediate family have made $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.

"What really surprised me about all this is just how fast they're making this money. They seem to turn down no opportunity," says Kirkpatrick. "It really sharpens the question of what a buyer, so to speak, might be getting for that."


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Can America Survive Donald Trump? Has He Made It Great Again? Or Is It Collapsing Under Trumpism?

Dec 8, 2025 | This video breaks down a growing narrative of fear, corruption, and democratic decay under Donald Trump, as described by critics who argue that the country is experiencing unprecedented division, institutional collapse, and erosion of rights. From hostile press briefings and contradictory drug policies to allegations of money laundering, foreign influence, authoritarian policing, and economic manipulation, the criticism paints a picture of a nation shaken from the inside out. As America’s global alliances falter and domestic tensions rise, critics argue the country is sliding toward authoritarianism—while supporters insist these accusations are exaggerated or politically-motivated.

This video isn’t about partisan cheerleading—it’s an examination of the perspective, fears, and warnings expressed by those who believe the U.S. is experiencing a profound crisis.


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Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ is doublespeak for ‘Make America White Again’. Fact is, however, America never was white! Before white man imposed themselves on America, America belonged to various American Indian tribes; but never to white man, or as they are referred to in literary terms as “pale-face”! I think Trump and his MAGA movement should read a little about American history. It would help clear up their misconceptions. — © Mark Alexander

Sandra Navidi über die Preis-Explosion in Trumps Amerika

Die Stimmung in den USA ist bedrückend. Sandra erklärt.

Brexit Supporting Journalists Admit It's Been a 'Failure' | LBC

Dec 3, 2025 | James O'Brien turns your attention back to the European Union as he considers whether the 'winds of change are blowing in the face of Brexit'.

Tory peer Lord Finkelstein writes in The Times, 'Logical step for Labour is to reverse Brexit'. This comes as Leave supporting columnists admit that Brexit has been a 'failure' as a respected economic body say it has reduced the UK's GDP per person by 6%-8%.

James takes aim at the Brexit-supporting media and argues that 'Project Fear' was not extreme enough.


This is where schadenfreude should kick in! But feeling that would be more than a little mean. So I shall refrain from revelling in it. I am, however, very pleased that I am, and always have been, on the right side of history when it comes to Brexit. I was dead nuts AGAINST Brexit from the very start. I said then that Brexit was MADNESS, and MADNESS it has proved to be.

The only relevant question now is this: How the hell are we going to be able to extricate ourselves from this ridiculous, stupid, and suicidal move. — © Mark Alexander

Steve Rosenberg: “Trump’s Not Their Daddy Anymore.” Russian Paper on Europe, over New US National Security Strategy

Dec 8, 2025 | Today’s Russian papers are loving America's new national security strategy. One Russian paper on implications for Europe: “Trump isn’t their Daddy anymore.” Kremlin spokesman is quoted as saying: “The adjustments in the updated strategy correspond in many ways to our vision”

Michael Lambert: Trump: Power, Chaos, and Collapse

Dec 6, 2025 | A presidency without restraint — surrounded by yes-men, making reckless decisions at home and abroad. From Venezuela to Ukraine, from economic turmoil to personal indulgence, this video examines the unfolding consequences of unchecked power.

Watch, reflect, and share if you believe truth and accountability matter.

Trump Lays Bare His Contempt for Europe in Blistering New National Security Plan

Dec 6, 2025 | "America Alone" might be the simplest précis of the White House's new National Security Strategy, an extraordinary document released that starkly lays out the administration's broad foreign policy priorities.

Trump has absolutely no understanding of geopolitics. America is no longer a responsible leader of the free world. — © Mark Alexander

Truth To Power: Britain’s Youth Exodus: The Final Brexit Betrayal

Dec 6, 2025

King Charles Is Worth £1.8 Billion, Investigation Reveals | Norman Baker

Dec 6, 2025 | Norman Baker reveals how much King Charles is really worth.

Après avoir atteint son record absolu, les raisons de la chute aussi vertigineuse que brutale du bitcoin

LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - Le plus célèbre des jetons numériques est tombé à 80 000 dollars le 21 novembre, effaçant près de 35 % de sa valeur. Il navigue désormais autour de 90 000 dollars.

La chute est aussi vertigineuse que brutale. Depuis son pic à 126 000 dollars, le 6 octobre, son record absolu, le bitcoin s’enfonce dans le rouge semaine après semaine. Le jeton numérique, qui fait office de boussole pour tout le marché des cryptos, est tombé à 80 000 dollars le 21 novembre, effaçant près de 35 % de sa valeur. Il navigue désormais autour de 92 000 dollars.

Les particuliers qui se sont rués sur le bitcoin ces derniers mois dans l’espoir de gains mirifiques, encaissent des pertes violentes. « Un certain nombre attendaient une porte de sortie autour des 140 000 à 150 000 dollars », rappelle Nicolas Chéron, analyste indépendant. Une zone de prix jamais atteinte. » | Par Jorge Carasso | mardi 4 décembre 2025

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Britain in a Changing World | LSE Event

Nov 18, 2025 | Discussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, Sir John Major, delivers this year’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture.

The Sunday Telegraph Admits that Brexit Has Been a Disaster

November 30, 2025

HERE'S A LINK TO THE ARTICLE: Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure: Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study »

All the President’s Millions: How the Trumps Are Turning the Presidency into Riches

THE GUARDIAN: From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election

Acrusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case. Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon.

All have one thing in common: they appear to be connected to the Trump family’s campaign to amass riches around the world. Since Donald Trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder. What is less understood – and perhaps even more dangerous – is the damage this is doing everywhere else.

Trump’s eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, formally the custodians of the family business, are conducting a global dealmaking blitz. They have broken ground on new golf courses, received permission for new skyscrapers, rented out the Trump brand, and in cryptocurrency they have embraced a venture with the capacity to bring in more than everything that has gone before.

They insist, in Eric’s words, that there is a “huge wall” between this moneymaking and their father’s position as the most powerful man alive. “Nothing I do has anything to do with the White House,” Eric told CNN recently.

But Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W Bush who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project, is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a “pay to play” system that benefits those who do business with the president’s family. Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: “Trump has made authoritarians’ wildest dreams come true.” » | Tom Burgis | Sunday, November 30, 2025

Russia's Missiles Target U.S. Navy — Venezuela's Deadly Warning to Washington | Yanis Varoufakis

Noov 29, 2025

What Would a Reform Government Mean for Britain?

Nov 29, 2025 | If polls are to be believed, Nigel Farage will be the next Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain will have a Reform UK government. In this video, I argue that this government will pursue a Thatcherite agenda that doubles down on the economic and political status-quo that has ruled Britain for a generation. Hence, Nigel Farage is not an anti-establishment figure, he is a fugue of establishment that will defend their interests and not ours.

Brian Klaas: “The United States Is Now a Competitive Authoritarian System”

LSE: Is the United States still a democracy? In an interview with EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown, Brian Klaas discusses Donald Trump’s impact on American and global democracy.

I would say the United States is now a “competitive authoritarian” system. This is political science jargon for countries that have the trappings of democracy, but without a level playing field.

In other words, there is genuine competition in the United States between political parties and democratic institutions persist, but the state is able to manipulate outcomes to its advantage, disadvantage its opponents and use state power in illegitimate or undemocratic ways with little to no recourse against it.

Political scientists continue to debate this topic, but few would classify the United States as a robust democracy. It is either a democracy in crisis that is barely clinging onto the label, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism – and I believe it’s the latter. » | Brian Klaas | Friday, September 19, 2025

Sandra Navidi warnt: Trump und die US-Wirtschaft wackeln!

Nov 27, 2025 | In diesem neuen Interview analysiert Sandra Navidi die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen in den USA – und zieht dabei klare, teils alarmierende Linien: von den bevorstehenden Epstein-Files, die ein politisches Beben auslösen könnten, bis hin zu Donald Trumps Umgang mit Macht, Institutionen und internationalen Partnern.

Michael Lambert: The UK Economy Is Heading for Trouble

November 29, 2025

I know this has been stated so many times before, but I will state it again: This country’s economic woes begin and end with Brexit.

The country has been in terminal decline since the end of the Great War, but we hitched our wagon to Europe’s for that very reason: to arrest that terminal decline. I am old enough to remember the very first referendum on the European question. The people who voted for that idiotic Brexit were taken in by the likes of Farage because of their lack of understanding of the history of this nation’s decline. Harsh though it sounds, it must be re-iterated: Brexiteers were taken in because they knew no better. Because they knew no better, people like Farage could fool them.

Even Thatcher, who was no lover of the European Project, realised the importance of the European Single Market. In fact, without her unstinting efforts, the Single Market would probably not have come about. Margaret Thatcher was one of the Single Market’s main architects, arguably the main architect. She knew that there was no prosperity for Britain unless we were in it, unless we took an active part in it. Not so much politically, perhaps, but certainly economically.

There is therefore only one solution to this problem, and it is this: we MUST correct our mistake and re-join that market. Our main obstacle to our doing so is our dullard politicians. Some say that Europe won’t let us back in. Poppycock! With Russia knocking on Europe’s door and with Trump abandoning Europe in favour of befriending Vladimir Putin, the European Union needs all the friends it can get. It also needs Britain’s first-class military expertise to help guarantee Europe’s continued security.

So, we need a leader who is charismatic, powerful, and courageous. One who will swim against the tide. One who will take us back into the European Union as FULL MEMBERS, with no ifs and buts. We need to embrace the euro as well and ditch the pound. We need not only to be taken back into the EU, but we need to demonstrate our absolute commitment to the Project. Our place in the EU needs to be locked in. Then, and only then, will this country have a fighting chance for a full economic recovery. Re-entering the European Union would not only help stimulate economic growth for this country, it would also help stimulate European economic growth, too. Our re-entrance would shore up optimism. Nothing hampers economic growth as much as pessimism and restrictions to trade. Commerce thrives on optimism and freedom from restrictions.

Moreover, it should be added that many of our other woes would be solved by re-entry into the EU as well. The problem of a shortage of labour, for example, and the problem of illegal immigrants.

Thank you, Michael, for your most interesting video. Watching your videos is always a pleasure. — © Mark Alexander