President Donald Trump has called for protesters in Iran to seize control of state institutions, issuing a cryptic promise of US assistance and threatening severe consequences for Iranian officials.

Iranian authorities have repeatedly alleged that the US and Israel have had a “big hand” in the ongoing unrest, framing it as a foreign-backed “terrorist war.”

“All Iranian patriots, keep protesting,”Trump declared in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday and in a parallel post on Truth Social. “Take over your institutions if possible. And save the names of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you,” he added, promising they would “pay a very big price.”

America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion — and this time, the danger isn’t the headline number.

The real threat is what’s happening quietly behind the scenes.

For the first time in more than 75 years, global institutions, foreign central banks, and large asset managers are systematically reducing exposure to dollar-denominated assets. Not publicly. Not dramatically. But deliberately.

In this video, we break down a five-hundred-year historical pattern that has repeated every time a global reserve currency collapsed — from Spain, to the Dutch Republic, to the British Empire — and explain why the United States is now deep into Stage Three: the Silent Exodus.

High-level talks in Washington have concluded without bridging the divide between the United States and Denmark over the future of Greenland, with Danish officials stating a “fundamental disagreement” persists after President Donald Trump reaffirmed his intent to acquire the Arctic territory.

Following a meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen described the conversation as “frank”and “constructive,” but admitted the core dispute remains unresolved.

“We didn’t manage to change the US position,” Rasmussen told reporters. “It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland, and we made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the Kingdom.”

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr has eliminated up to 400 Ukrainian military personnel over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 400 servicepeople, an armored fighting vehicle, nine pickup trucks, and an artillery piece," the ministry said in a statement.

At the same time, Kiev has lost over 270 soldiers in battles with Russia's Battlegroup Vostok, the ministry added.

The Russian armed forces launched a massive retaliatory strike against Ukraine's fuel and energy facilities used by the Ukrainian armed forces and military-industrial complex enterprises, the ministry also said, adding that all targets were hit.

All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice.

Donald Trump's war on everything is expanding and accelerating.

In the past week, the US president has plucked the Venezuelan president from his home and threatened Cuba and Colombia while openly discussing military action against Iran and perhaps even Greenland.

First Venezuela, then the US Fed — what the White House attacks mean for us [AUSTRALIA]

By Ian Verrender

THe revolt of Paris, in which culminated the nation-wide disturbances of 1789, and the general collapse of royal administration, confronted the members of the Third Estate with the problem of taking steps to protect property and restore some semblance of law and order to France.

In their turn, like the privileged classes before them, they were to find that they had started something they could not stop, and that a movement which they had envisaged as one of moderate constitutional and social reform was to become a revolution of a very different nature and scope. Their response to the new challenge was dictated by circumstances. All through the Revolution we find that theory plays little part in determining policies, though it has played much in their subsequent interpretation.

On the Feb. 22 episode of Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ podcast and nightly YouTube livestream, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, he began his hourlong show like he always does, by inviting his audience for a ceremonious “simultaneous sip.”* He went on with his standard fare—a handful of headlines accompanied by his quick takes—until he steered to a “provocative” new Rasmussen poll.

The Poll That Did in Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Is Even Dumber Than You Can Imagine
BY AYMANN ISMAIL

Since the overthrow of his father, Iran's last shah, Reza Pahlavi has spent nearly half a century exiled in the United States.

In uprisings in recent years, including at the start of 2026, Pahlavi has used his platform to call for greater action on the streets of Iran. As protests continue across Iran, he has cast himself as a pro-secular, pro-democratic voice in support of regime change. 

Born in 1960, Pahlavi is the eldest son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife, Farah. He was formally named crown prince at the age of 7 during his father’s own coronation in 1967.

When US President Donald Trump returned to the topic of acquiring Greenland – one that seemed largely forgotten just a month ago – the idea wasn’t considered mere ‘theatrics’, particularly in Europe. And it’s not just about the ‘Maduro effect’. Beneath Trump’s provocative statements, a clear geopolitical strategy is emerging, one that can be termed ‘new globalism’. This approach is far more economically grounded than the concept of globalization, even US-centric globalization.  

Trump is not bluffing about Greenland and here’s why
The US is building a resource-driven world order based on energy dominance, territorial leverage, and Europe’s strategic weakness

Trump’s ‘new globalism’ consists of three logically interconnected components:

A bill seeking to make Greenland the 51st US state has been introduced in the House of Representatives, escalating a controversial push by President Donald Trump to bring the Danish territory under American control.

Trump claimed last week that the US must annex Greenland – an autonomous former Danish colony under Copenhagen’s sovereignty – to contain Russia and China, suggesting that the two countries would “take over”the island unless Washington did it first.

The “Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act,” introduced by Representative Randy Fine (R-FL) on Monday, would authorize the President to take “whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland,” and mandates a report to Congress outlining the steps required for its eventual admission as a US state.

A pattern of appeasement, not moral clarity, has shaped the Albanese Government’s response to Gaza, Israel and the politics of antisemitism at home, writes Paul Begley.

WHEN A LEADER elected to the highest office operates according to a belief that pleasing his enemies is a sure-fire way to preserve his political capital, he gets what he deserves when his enemies turn on him for doing what they asked for.

Winston Churchill warned against that approach by characterising an appeaser as one who feeds a crocodile in the hope it will eat him last, forgetting that its appetite is insatiable.

US President Donald Trump has someone in mind to be the next leader of Cuba – his secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

On Sunday, Trump reposted an image of an X post that jokingly claimed that the top US diplomat would be made the president of the Caribbean island.

“Sounds good to me!” Trump responded on Truth Social.

In a follow-up message, he accused Cuba of subsisting on oil money from Venezuela.

The latter country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, was kidnapped by US special forces last week following months of pressure from Washington, after which Trump demanded “total access” to the South American nation’s oil. A number of Cubans in Maduro’s personal security team were killed in the raid.

Lt Col Daniel Davis argues that President Trump’s failure to end the Russia–Ukraine war stems largely from flawed advice and misperceptions within his own team — especially from Keith Kellogg. Despite Trump’s repeated promises to end the war quickly after taking office in January 2025, there has been no progress toward a negotiated settlement nearly a year later.