The Gestapo, Denunciation, and the Return of Political Persecution: Why We Must Learn from History
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This oft-quoted bon mot by Mark Twain takes on an oppressive relevance…
Surveillance State
Dobrindt’s Secret Reform: How the Firewall Elites are Rebuilding the Intelligence Service into a New Domestic Secret Police
The masks of the self-proclaimed guardians of democracy have finally fallen. Right at the start of the Berlin summer holidays…
Europe’s Great Firewall: How the DSA Destroys Anonymity and Reshapes the Internet After the Chinese Model
When the power structure of a technocratic elite trembles in the physical world, the battle for narrative hegemony increasingly shifts…
Denunciation: The Good Citizen Reports — The “Everyman Duty” and the Privatization of State Prosecution
The good citizen pays taxes, separates their waste, respects pedestrian crossings, and obeys the law. For a long time, this…
The EUDI Wallet: Pan-European Digital Identity as an Infrastructure for Perfect Surveillance
By the end of 2026, all European Union member states are legally mandated under the revised eIDAS 2.0 Regulation to…
The Black Cabinets: The Birth of Systematic Postal Surveillance in Occupied Germany
Long before the digital age and the invention of state trojans or algorithmic surveillance, governments had already found a highly…
Between Enlightenment and Espionage: Napoleonic Repression in Germany (1794–1814)
The era of French occupation in Germany, historically known as the Franzosenzeit, is one of the most paradoxical periods in…
Edward Snowden: The Cost of Truth in the Age of Total Surveillance
Edward Snowden is perhaps the most famous political refugee of the 21st century. His revelations in 2013 exposed the global…
The Carlsbad Decrees: Instruments of Political Persecution in the German Confederation
The Carlsbad Decrees represent one of the most significant instruments of political persecution in German history. Following the Napoleonic Wars…
The Trojan Horse of Surveillance: How the EU Chat Control Becomes a Danger to Dissidents
The recent agreement by the EU Council on so-called Chat Control is officially being sold as a necessary instrument in…
Review: “1984” by George Orwell – The Anatomy of Totalitarian Persecution
George Orwell’s novel 1984 is far more than mere science fiction; it is a sharp and terrifyingly precise analysis of…
Movie Review: The Lives of Others – Between System Loyalty and Humanity
With his debut feature “The Lives of Others” (2006), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck did more than just create a gripping…