Written on 08 August 2025.

Im Alter von 22 Jahren packte Tim Schramm seine Sachen und überquerte die Grenze zur Ukraine. Er begab sich nicht nur in ein Kriegsgebiet – er stellte sich einer moralischen Herausforderung.

„Ich komme aus dem rechten politischen Lager in Deutschland“, sagt er. „Wir reden viel über Werte – Freiheit, Nation, Familie. Aber in der Ukraine leben die Menschen diese Werte tatsächlich. Sie sterben sogar dafür.“

Als ehemaliger Sympathisant russischer Narrative und Mitglied der deutschen Partei Alternative für Deutschland, die oft als kremlfreundlich wahrgenommen wird, mag Schramms Entscheidung, für die Ukraine zu kämpfen, paradox erscheinen. Aber für ihn war es die einzig logische Konsequenz, nachdem er das gesehen hatte, was er als „Verkörperung von Idealen“ bezeichnet – nicht in Reden, sondern in Schützengräben. 

Schramm spricht offen über seinen Weg von ideologischer Verwirrung zu Klarheit – davon, wie er russischer Propaganda verfiel und schließlich als Mörserkanonier an der Südfront bei Hulyaipole gegen russische Truppen kämpfte.

Er spricht mit brutaler Ehrlichkeit über seine Enttäuschung von Russland, die Widersprüche innerhalb seiner eigenen Partei und warum er glaubt, dass die Unterstützung der Ukraine nicht nur eine noble Sache ist, sondern auch im deutschen nationalen Interesse liegt.

Written on 08 August 2025.

Anarchist ‘Angry Bird Kommandos’ Arson of Critical Train Cables

On 31 July 2025, the anarchist group Kommando Angry Birds carried out a deliberate act of sabotage by setting fire to a Deutsche Bahn (DB) cable duct, effectively paralysing rail traffic along the vital Duisburg–Düsseldorf axis. The attack targeted a roughly 60-meter stretch of signalling and communications cabling, resulting in a complete shutdown of one of the most critical freight and passenger corridors in Europe. The consequences were immediate and widespread: hundreds of trains were delayed or cancelled, freight routes were forcibly diverted via Dortmund and Wuppertal, and thousands of commuters, including those transiting through Düsseldorf Airport, were left stranded. The disruption rippled across the Rhine-Alpine corridor, affecting logistics chains from Rotterdam to Milan. 

While Deutsche Bahn has long been a symbolic and practical target for German anarchist and far-left extremist groups, the scale and precision of this attack mark a concerning escalation. Kommando Angry Birds, who claim to reject industrial civilisation and technological infrastructure as inherently oppressive, have demonstrated growing sophistication over the past year. Their targeting of railway infrastructure reflects a strategic understanding of how relatively simple acts of sabotage can cause disproportionate economic, logistical, and societal disruption. 

This incident highlights the alarming ease with which critical infrastructure in Germany, and across Europe, can be sabotaged with minimal resources. Cable ducts, electrical substations, pylons, and other publicly accessible infrastructure are often poorly protected and widely documented in public records or mapping systems, not to mention the numerous how-to manuals being freely passed around. Saboteurs require little more than flammable materials, basic tools, and a knowledge of railway schematics to inflict millions of euros in economic losses and hours of logistical chaos. Such low-tech attacks bypass conventional security measures and surveillance systems, making them extremely difficult to prevent in advance. 

TRAC has consistently warned about the expanding threat posed by left-wing extremist groups, particularly anarchists, whose ideology revolves around dismantling state structures and industrial society. While right-wing extremism often dominates public discourse in Europe, far-left actors continue to quietly build capacity, networks, and experience, particularly in Germany, France, Italy, and parts of North and South America. The DB sabotage shows how this threat is evolving from symbolic vandalism into strategic, high-impact disruption.

Written on 08 August 2025.

Des agents du renseignement français ont découvert une probable opération du renseignement chinois visant à intercepter les communications de satellites conçus par Airbus Group et Thales Alenia Space, depuis Boulogne-sur-Gesse (Haute-Garonne).

Le village de Boulogne-sur-Gesse, en Haute-Garonne, a été le théâtre d'un étonnant spectacle quelques années durant : un couple, dont l'épouse est une ressortissante chinoise, a installé dans son petit jardin anonyme une antenne satellite de plus de 7 mètres de diamètre.

Les renseignements français pensent qu'il s'agissait d'une opération d'espionnage à grande échelle. Comment un tel dispositif a-t-il pu si longtemps passer inaperçu ? Etait-ce une opération chinoise ?

Written on 06 August 2025.

C'est officiel. La Maison-Blanche veut mettre fin à deux missions spatiales de la NASA conçues pour mesurer avec une précision inédite le dioxyde de carbone. Leur disparition priverait la planète d’outils scientifiques uniques, tout en suscitant une tempête politique à Washington. (LES NUMERIQUES)

Climate: Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere. The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases. 

An official review by NASA in 2023 found that "the data are of exceptionally high quality" and recommended continuing the mission for at least three years. 

NASA mission leaders were told to make termination plans for projects that would lose funding under President Trump's proposed budget for the next fiscal year, or FY 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The employees asked to remain anonymous, because they were told they would be fired if they revealed the request.

Ihe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and its director, Russ Vought, are overstepping by directing NASA and other agencies to stop spending money that Congress has already appropriated. In the past, Vought has been vocal about cutting what he sees as inappropriate spending on projects related to climate change. Before he joined the Trump administration, Vought authored sections of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 roadmap for remaking the federal government. In that document, Vought wrote that "the Biden Administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding" 

The information can also help predict future political instability, since crop failures are a major driver of mass migration all over the world. For example, persistent drought in Honduras is one factor that has led many farmers there to migrate north, NPR reporting found. And damage to crops and livestock from extreme weather in Northern Africa has contributed to migration from that region. 

And that data showed some surprising things. "Fifty years ago we thought the tropical forests were like a huge vacuum cleaner, sucking up carbon dioxide," Denning explains. "Now we know they're not."

Instead, boreal forests in the northern latitudes suck up a significant amount of carbon dioxide, the satellite data shows. The cost of maintaining the two OCO satellite missions up in space is a small fraction of the amount of money taxpayers already spent to design and launch the instruments. "Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data."