From 2002 to 2003 he worked as a consultant for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), which is politically close to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

[7] To resolve the Syrian Civil War and reduce the number of refugees, Lüders called for cooperation with Bashar al-Assad, Russia and Iran.

"[8] In an interview about his book He who sows the wind..., Lüders explained his thesis that "Western politics" only "supposedly" stands for democracy and justice.

When Lüders put forward this thesis shortly afterwards on Anne Will's talk show, historian Michael Wolffsohn contradicted him and stated that the Russian side had been warned by the US, but had not shot down the US cruise missiles, although it could have done so.

The US government had "ensured behind the scenes that all pending proceedings against the USA for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan before the International Criminal Court in The Hague were discontinued".

[9] The journalist Alexandra Senfft [de] described Lüders' second non-fiction book in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a mixture of "analysis, basic information and personal experience".

Lüders outlines the Western view of the Arab–Israeli conflict as "on the one hand the peace-loving Israel, on the other the Palestinian terror" and points out that this is not shared by a third of the world's population.

The German investigative journalist Lutz Kleveman attested to Lüders' "political tour de force" through the Near and Middle East in terms of the part about the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia, a "cool, calm style", but criticised the lack of "more vivid descriptions and reports of experiences that convey analytical content from such unknown countries much more impressively".

For Hartmut Wagner (Eurasian Magazine [de]), Lüders tried not to demonise the role of the US in the Middle East in his "pleasantly readable book".

Lüders sees his long-term involvement with the foreign world of Arabia, which began as a child with the adventures of Kara Ben Nemsi from the Oriental novels of Karl May, as a process of self-exploration that is always accompanied by deep self-doubt.

As a "combative analyst", he also represents less popular viewpoints: Lüders sees the causes of Islamism in the "unconditional support of the West for Israel" and holds its "policy, which violates international law and is geared towards hegemony" responsible for the rise of militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

[11] However Edith Kresta pointed out in Die Tageszeitung that for Lüders, even without Israel, "the misery of the Arab world, its stagnation and lack of creativity, its repression and violence would be the same".

In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Beat Staufer praised the author for doing an excellent job of explaining everything necessary to understand the political and social conditions that prevailed in the individual countries before the uprisings broke out, in just a few pages.

Lüders sees the blame for the Middle East conflict fundamentally with Israel, his prejudices are deeply rooted and he is not prepared to recognize the causes of a potential war.

The journalist Gemma Pörzgen [de] on Deutschlandfunk criticized the only "apparent inevitability of the development described by [Lüders]", but praised his "expertise" and saw in the "absolutely worth reading" book a "pleasant effort at objectivity".

[14] Historian of the anti-German current Matthias Küntzel described Lüders' portrayal of Iran as a one-sided "fairy tale book" that takes the Iranian side and does not stand up to scrutiny of the sources.

Küntzel wrote that he "wrongly relie"s on the Guldimann Memorandum and "invents events that do not exist and suspects an Israeli conspiracy behind US policy in a well-known intellectual tradition".

[15] The political scientist Stephan Grigat [de] reviewed the book in the Jungle World as a "perfidious" trivialization of Khomeinism, which one-sidedly conceals and misrepresents facts, ignores the standard literature in the sense of his presentation and instead relies on anti-Zionist authors such as Ilan Pappe.

[17] On the political science front, Christian Patz criticized the book for having a "cynical undertone" that sometimes escalated into the "absurd": Lüders went so far as to say that the American cruise missile attack on Al-Qaeda training camps was a reaction to the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 to distract from the Lewinsky affair.

The novel, whose title alludes to the National Security Agency (NSA) (Never Say Anything), is about the experiences of a journalist who survives a military attack in Morocco and, during her research, comes across the traces of American elite soldiers.

[19] According to Radio Bremen, this novel combines specialist knowledge and narrative art to create an "explosive, highly exciting political thriller".

The reader will agree with much of the analysis, which is based on leaked US embassy cables and Hillary Clinton's memos, but "that it was the West alone that plunged Syria into chaos, as formulated in the subtitle, remains an assertion."

Lüders' historical overview, which uses a broad source base to present the history of Western attacks on Syria's political order, which began in March 1949 with a military coup organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) against the elected president Shukri al-Kuwatli, is particularly highlighted.

The team of the Tagesschau anti-fake news programme "faktenfinder" under the direction of Patrick Gensing [de] researched the thesis propagated by Lüders in his book that, contrary to what the West claims, Turkey supplied poison gas to radical Islamic rebels in Syria in 2013 and that they were responsible for the chemical attacks in Ghouta.

Furthermore, according to Daniel Steinvorth's assessment in the NZZ of September 2019, Lüders completely fixated on the US as the perpetrator, ignoring the then hesitant foreign policy of US President Barack Obama.

The relationships between the "Houses of Bush and Saud, the interplay of American and Saudi capital: a unique conglomerate of politics and big business" are well known.

Lüders sees Shiite Iran as "the only remaining regional power in the Near and Middle East that openly opposes Western and Israeli claims to hegemony."

In his review[22] in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, René Wildangel [de] admits that Lüders correctly assesses the explosiveness of the conflict and the power-political factors.

[23] According to the FAS, Dündar contradicted Lüders's statement shortly afterwards, calling it "total nonsense" and stating that Cumhuriyet, whose editor-in-chief he was at the time, had only reported on Turkish arms deliveries to the rebels.

The results of such collective sloppiness, viewed from the outside, are not dissimilar to those of a campaign"[25] Brigitte Baetz [de] explained on Deutschlandradio on the occasion of Lüders’ appearance on Anne Will on 10 April 2017, that he is celebrated in social media in particular by those who reject the so-called "systemmedien" and believe that the West has conspired against Putin and Assad.