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Promethean Updates is the video podcast of Promethean Action: political and economic commentary on the fight to rebuild the American economy and end the era of financial empire.

Four shows a week. The Monday Brief and The Midweek Update are 15-minute reports on the week's decisive events with Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda. The Thursday Q&A is a live two-hour broadcast hosted by Adam Sturman with Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda answering viewer questions. The Saturday Wrap-Up looks back at the week.

Regular topics: Treasury and Fed policy, tariffs and jobs, energy and manufacturing, Ukraine

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  • Monday · 13 min

    Monday Brief: Trump's Love Your Country Crushes Slotkin's Dystopian

    On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump's final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson ("be smart, be strong, love your country"), against Senator Elissa Slotkin's September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump's America "the Titanic", and her stage partner Anne Applebaum's praise for the January 6 hearings as "constructed for television". Slotkin's undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm "signature cases" would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin's visit to Poland and Hungary and the "Iron Broom", Prime Minister Donald Tusk's move against the Constitutional Tribunal, President Karol Nawrocki's return to Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose's statement, and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski's defence of the government, with a look at Sikorski's and Applebaum's British ties and the Integrity Initiative, funded by the British Foreign Office. It closes in Michigan, where Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate, and sets Slotkin's "corruption" narrative against the President's moves on electricity for data centres, health care and drug prices, October's new factories, and child and Hispanic poverty at record lows. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 01:18 The Post-Midterm Plan 05:20 The Playbook In Action 09:07 The Coalition Showed Up, Just Not Hers Credits Photos (public domain unless noted) - Anne Applebaum, London, April 16, 2015: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0 - January 6 Committee hearing, June 9, 2022: U.S. House Select Committee on January 6 - White House ballroom construction, May 19, 2026: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian - Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, June 13, 2026: U.S. government photo (DVIDS) - President Karol Nawrocki and President Trump, September 3, 2025: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley - Prime Minister Donald Tusk, March 12, 2024: Official White House Photo - Radosław Sikorski, February 21, 2025: U.S. Department of State, photo by Freddie Everett - Rep. Haley Stevens: U.S. House of Representatives - Mike Rogers, November 19, 2019: U.S. Army photo by P.J. Siquig Video - President Trump with Benny Johnson, October 30, 2026: The Benny Show - Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Anne Applebaum, "A Conversation on Defending Democracy", September 30, 2026: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Sen. Elissa Slotkin, undercover video, October 29, 2026: Townhall - Rep. Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers, Detroit, November 1, 2026: LiveNOW from FOX Articles, posts and documents quoted: Townhall (Kyle Olson, October 30, 2026); Notes from Poland (Daniel Tilles, October 30, 2026); The Kyiv Independent (November 1, 2026); U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose on X (October 30, 2026); Radosław Sikorski on X (October 31, 2026); Hansard, House of Commons, "Institute for Statecraft: Integrity Initiative" (December 12, 2018; Open Parliament Licence v3.0); EIR, "Nina Jankowicz, the Integrity Initiative, and the British Foreign Office" (May 16, 2022); Washington Examiner; AP via CBS News; Michigan Advance (August 5, 2026); Jewish Insider (October 26, 2026); CBS News (October 31, 2026); The White House fact sheets (January 15, February 5 and March 4, 2026) and releases (October 8 and 26, 2026); U.S. Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 2025. Biographies: Counter Extremism Project; Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; The Oxford Blue; Prospect; PAP / Gazeta Prawna; Johns Hopkins University; The Nine Dots Prize; The Atlantic Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • Saturday · 11 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: He's Stopping the British Plot to Carve Up Russia

    Barbara Boyd opens with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presenting the EU's new Arctic strategy ("it's not someone else's frontier. It's part of the European Union") and, in Montreal for the EU. Canada summit, saying that the principles defended in Ukraine include "also the Arctic". She ties both to an old British imperial aim, to carve up Russia: NATO's expansion to Russia's border, Scott Horton's "Provoked" on the 2014 coup in Ukraine, and Zbigniew Brzezinski's adoption of Halford Mackinder's strategy. She maps who actually holds the Arctic, recalls the Trump. Putin summit in Anchorage and the Bering Strait tunnel proposal that caught the President's eye, and follows Mark Carney's "middle powers", the U.S. Embassy's fact sheet on Canadian activities in U.S. politics, Natalie Winters' report on European Parliament money for a meeting on resisting Trump, Canada's 100-year partnership with Ukraine, and President Putin on working with the U.S. in the Arctic. The episode then compares fossil fuel and rare earth reserves for the U.S., Russia and China against the U.S., Canada and Europe, recalls candidate Trump in 2015 on getting along with Russia and China, and turns to Sergei Lavrov at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, the cancelled group photo, and the G20 summit in Miami and APEC in China ahead. It closes with the note from Russia's JFK file on the "Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge", James W. Douglass's "JFK and the Unspeakable", Kennedy's call for a joint expedition to the Moon, and the Arctic as humanity's last great frontier. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 01:49 The Plot to Occupy and Dismember Russia 05:48 Trump's America, Russia, and China Work the Peace and Resource Map 08:49 Did U.S. and Russian Joint Plans for the Arctic Kill JFK? Credits Photos (public domain unless noted) - President Trump and President Putin, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025 (two photos): Benjamin D. Applebaum, U.S. Department of Defense - Zbigniew Brzezinski, March 14, 1977: Jack E. Kightlinger, The White House - Sir Halford Mackinder, before 1911: Lafayette - "The Natural Seats of Power": H. J. Mackinder, The Geographical Journal, April 1904 - John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865: Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress - Mark Carney at the European Parliament, February 19, 2020: © European Union 2020. Source: EP - President Putin, Anchorage, August 15, 2025: The White House - President Xi Jinping, the Oval Office, September 24, 2026: Margo Martin, The White House - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: U.S. House of Representatives - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev, Vienna, June 3, 1961: U.S. Department of State / JFK Library - President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, October 7, 1963: Robert Knudsen, The White House / National Archives - "Provoked" cover: The Libertarian Institute Maps and charts - NATO's members and Russia's border: nato.int; map data Natural Earth - Land north of the Arctic Circle: Natural Earth; Bering Strait: NASA - Fossil fuel and rare earth reserves: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy 2026 (proved reserves, end 2020); U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (rare earths); U.S. Geological Survey, Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (2008) Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • Thursday · 2 hr 3 min

    Thursday Q&A: Accountability Is Coming

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 29th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: Accountability Is Coming. Trump's Strategy vs. The Deep State. Not someday. It's already moving. On the board: President Trump's $1,000,000 reward for reporting voter fraud in past elections or the 2026 midterms, paid upon arrest and conviction. Two former FBI officials. Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, charged with making false statements to Congress about the Hunter Biden investigations and the Foreign Influence Task Force. And the Oct 27 FBI search of Stephen Cloobeck's Beverly Hills mansion, tied in reporting to the Eric Swalwell probe. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro 00:44 Barbara: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 03:28 The Insurrection Act Trap 04:35 Spencer Pratt: Fix the Culture 06:19 Trump: "It's All Gonna Work Out" 08:34 Mike Rogers and the Detroit Democrat 14:24 Productive Identity: Audi Builds, VW Cuts 17:11 Was Hamilton a British Spy? 20:12 Is the Grid Going Down? 24:27 Too Big to Rig, and the Bounty 28:44 California: Newsom, SEIU and Steve Hilton 33:21 Rubio, the Cosmos and Aliens 37:10 Barbara and Susan on Roseanne 38:41 Iran and the Globalist System 44:45 Culture, Church and Gramsci 50:27 Be a Watchman at the Polls 54:57 Poll Watchers and Nonpartisan Races 1:00:47 Was LaRouche Right? 1:06:25 Answering the Attacks on Promethean Action 1:15:16 Is the Coup Plan Real? 1:23:51 FBI Charges, Swalwell and the $1M Bounty 1:31:22 What If Democrats Win the Midterms? 1:37:22 Hold Your Nose and Vote 1:40:57 After the Midterms: The Bootcamp Goes On 1:45:25 Young People Are Waking Up 1:50:08 The Long Game: Three Books 1:56:29 Trump, Bibi and the Board of Peace 2:00:53 Closing: Prometheus Wasn't Chained Forever Get our free Newsletter New: The Real Revolution. The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

  • October 28 · 12 min

    Midweek Update: London’s Plan to Bypass Your Vote

    Susan Kokinda opens with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrating Brazil's election, von der Leyen's partnership "thriving" and Carney's "flourishing", set against Volkswagen's plan to cut 100,000 jobs, Canada's lost manufacturing jobs, and Audi's first U.S. plant, announced with President Trump in Perry, Georgia, with Rep. Rich McCormick on what it means for Georgia and a look at GDP growth in the United States, the euro area and Canada. The episode then turns to the U.S. Embassy in Canada's October 21 fact sheet on Canadian activities in U.S. politics: Carney's and Minister Mélanie Joly's denials, Joly on meeting "so many governors and potential presidential candidates", tariffs aimed at "political pressure", and the anti-tariff billboards. It sets that beside Chatham House's August 27 paper for Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government, which urges London to court members of Congress, state legislatures, potential presidential candidates and industry leaders, and looks at the British pedigree of Canada's trade team and Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on the members of Congress who came through Chatham House. It closes with the voters: the Parti Québécois win in Quebec and the Conservative majority in British Columbia that President Trump congratulated, the AfD's wins in two German states, and the President's "France: Now and Then". 00:00 Midweek Update Intro 02:17 Thriving and Jiving 04:58 The Real Plan 09:28 The Voters Are Figuring It Out Credits Photos (public domain unless noted) - Prime Minister Mark Carney, May 6, 2025: Official White House Photo - Mélanie Joly, January 29, 2025: U.S. Department of State - Hamilton, Ontario, the harbour and its steel mills, June 2007: Rick Cordeiro - Anti-tariff billboard, Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania, March 25, 2025: Gene J. Puskar / AP - Janice Charette, November 2, 2017: International Maritime Organization, CC BY 2.0 - Dominic LeBlanc, July 11, 2024: U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Tia Dufour - King Charles III and President Trump, Windsor, September 17, 2025: The White House - David Eby after his concession speech, Vancouver, October 24, 2026: Jimmy Jeong / Bloomberg - Map of Canada: Natural Earth Video - President Trump and Audi CEO Gernot Döllner, Perry, Georgia, October 24, 2026: pool feed via Roll Call Factbase; Reuters - Bronwen Maddox, Independent Thinking podcast, October 16, 2026: Chatham House - Prime Minister Andy Burnham clapped in to 10 Downing Street, July 20, 2026: Prime Minister's Office (Open Government Licence v3.0) - AfD election night, Saxony-Anhalt, September 6, 2026: AFP - Paris, October 17, 2026: AFP - "France: Now and Then": President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, October 27, 2026 Articles, posts and documents quoted: Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney on X (October 25, 2026); Rep. Rich McCormick on Truth Social (October 27, 2026); The Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2026); U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Canada, "Fact Sheet: Monitoring Canadian Activities in U.S. Politics" (October 21, 2026); Chatham House, "What the Burnham government should do in its foreign policy" (Bronwen Maddox, Olivia O'Sullivan and Owen Jenkins, August 27, 2026); President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social (October 27, 2026); Bloomberg (October 24, 2026); The Irish Times; GDP: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Eurostat, Statistics Canada, Bank of Canada Monetary Policy Report (October 28, 2026), Wall Street Journal survey of economists (October 23, 2026), Société Générale (October 26, 2026); election results as reported by CTV News, CP24, The Irish Times and Bloomberg Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 26 · 12 min

    Monday Brief: The Red-Green Alliance Burning France

    Download Barbara Boyd's briefing, The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again, at https://prom.ac/realrev. Barbara Boyd starts with Barack Obama's October 24 rally in Detroit for Abdul El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin and the red-green alliance, then looks at El-Sayed's 2012 statement backing Mohamed Morsi's government, Slotkin's posts at the National Security Council and the Pentagon, and the Sunrise Movement's board and funders. She follows Data Republican's files on former officials preparing around the Insurrection Act and 2028, the Democratic Socialists of America's platform, this month's riots in France and Noëlle Lenoir's interview with Michael Shellenberger, and closes with Marco Rubio and Jared Isaacman on the President, the American System, and making the November 3 midterms too big to rig. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 01:21 Who Are El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin, Really? 04:59 The Democrats Will Bring the French Revolution Here 09:06 This Battle Is 250 Years Old Credits Photos (CC BY): Tahrir Square, Cairo, 2011: Jonathan Rashad, CC BY 2.0; USAID headquarters, 2025: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0; Sunrise Movement, Pittsburgh, 2022: Mark Dixon, CC BY 2.0; Democratic Socialists of America, New York, 2011: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0; Joe Biden, Des Moines, 2020: Phil Roeder, CC BY 2.0. Other photos (public domain or CC0): U.S. Senate HELP Committee; Official U.S. Senate photo; U.S. Department of State; U.S. Navy (MC2 Jesse B. Awalt); Official White House Photos (Pete Souza, Daniel Torok, Molly Riley); U.S. Army National Guard (Spc. Jacob Jesperson); State Department (Freddie Everett); Pierre-Antoine Demachy (Musée Carnavalet); François Bouchot (Château de Versailles); John Trumbull (National Portrait Gallery); Alexander Gardner; Library of Congress; Howard R. Hollem, Office of War Information; Lyon, Paris, the Conseil constitutionnel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen: CC0. The Real Revolution by Barbara Boyd (Promethean Action, 2026), cover. Video: Barack Obama on YouTube (Detroit, October 24, 2026); Oli London and Farai Mazhindu on X (Paris, October 2026); U.S. Department of State on X (Rubio, India Today, October 22, 2026); NASA (Jared Isaacman, October 23, 2026). Quoted: The Washington Free Beacon; The White House (2014); Sunrise Movement; World Economic Forum; letter of 626 groups to Congress (2019); Inside Philanthropy; Ford Foundation; InfluenceWatch; U.S. News & World Report; DataRepublican on X; Elissa Slotkin at the UChicago Institute of Politics; Jonathan Turley (Fox News; X); Public, Michael Shellenberger with Noëlle Lenoir; Commission on Presidential Debates; Public Sénat; whitehouse.gov/manufacturing Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 24 · 11 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: Midterms Can't Stop Him: Trump Unchained

    Susan Kokinda opens with Chatham House's October 15 warning that President Trump could come out of the midterms "unshackled from electoral constraints," and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's answer in Mumbai: "we're no longer going to be defensive." The episode looks at the author of that warning, Dr. Andrew Payne, and his book War on the Ballot, at Halford Mackinder's doctrine, and at Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on the members of Congress who have come to Chatham House in the run-up to their own elections, with Secretary Rubio on America First. It then turns to the reaction to the President's diesel deal with Russia and his openness to a meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, from the Council on Foreign Relations to the Wall Street Journal's "Yalta 2" editorial, with President Trump and Secretary Rubio on talks about nuclear weapons, and the ASEAN, APEC and G20 summits ahead. It closes with what the President is doing without the Congress: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the tariff authorities, the EPA's repeal of the 2024 power-plant rules, Defense Production Act funding for refining, federal loans for power, drug and manufacturing plants, the White House's $11.3 trillion investment count, and 21 new plant sites announced since October 1. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 01:20 Off the Reservation 04:24 Yalta Panic 08:26 He Doesn't Need Their Permission Credits Photos: Dr. Andrew Payne, © Chatham House; War on the Ballot (Columbia University Press, 2023), cover; Chatham House, London: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0; Council on Foreign Relations, New York: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 4.0; Trump and Xi, Oval Office, September 24, 2026: The White House. Public domain: U.S. Department of State (Rubio); Official White House Photo (November 27, 2018 briefing; July 4, 2025 bill signing); Architect of the Capitol; Lafayette (Mackinder); The Geographical Journal, April 1904; Benjamin D. Applebaum (Trump and Putin, Anchorage, August 15, 2025); U.S. Army Signal Corps / National Archives (Yalta, 1945); Natural Earth (map). Video: Forbes Breaking News and Mirror Now (Rubio, Mumbai, October 20–21, 2026); Chatham House (Bronwen Maddox, October 16, 2026); U.S. Department of State (Rubio with Breitbart News, October 15, 2026); The White House (October 19, 2026); 2WAY (Scott Bessent, October 20, 2026); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Operation Teapot, 1955); U.S. House Armed Services Committee (April 29, 2026). Quoted: Chatham House; Andrew Payne; Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Sestanovich; The Wall Street Journal editorial board; EPA; Department of Energy; USDA; Department of War Office of Strategic Capital (via Fierce Pharma); Export-Import Bank; The White House, "The Trump Effect"; company, state and federal plant announcements, October 1–23, 2026. Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 22 · 2 hr 5 min

    Thursday Q&A: Zelensky Bends on War. Leaked Tapes Hint at a Midterm Meltdown Plan

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 22nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: Zelensky's war reaches American oil, and a color revolution comes home. Secretary of State Rubio says Ukraine struck ships carrying American-owned oil, "probably not deliberately." The ships were foreign-flagged tankers. Rubio told Zelensky to end the war. At home, the Washington Post reports that a small group of national security officials is quietly advising states on how to prepare for possible Trump administration interference in the midterms. Barbara calls it a repeat of the 2020 color revolution playbook: Too Big to Rig vs. Communist Revolution. Leaked recordings published as "The Democracy Files" allegedly lay out "redlines" for declaring the federal government illegitimate. On the board: Zelensky's war vs. Trump's peace, the Russian diesel deal and the bill to block it, the Post story and the Democracy Files, and the Trump-Putin-Xi alignment with Rubio's Central Asia and India trip, twelve days before the November 3 midterms. Plus the Monday Brief you need. NOT ABOVE THE LAW: Bessent's $1.2 Billion Strike on the Empire's Banks: https://youtu.be/x5V1S-75QTA Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind. Get our free Newsletter New: The Real Revolution. The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

  • October 21 · 13 min

    Midweek Update: There Was a Secret Coup Plan but then Elissa Slotkin Opened Her Big Mouth

    Download Barbara briefing, The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again, at https://prom.ac/realrev. Barbara Boyd opens with Senator Elissa Slotkin's remarks to University of Chicago students on October 13 about deterring young people from working for the Trump administration, and her background in the intelligence community, the National Security Council and the Pentagon. The episode follows the files Data Republican has been releasing on X about networks of former national security and USAID officials, including the United Democracy Alliance, National Security Leaders for America, Renew to Thrive and the Horizons Project, and their plans around the midterms, and the Washington Post's October 20 report that current and former officials with Defense Department experience have been advising officials from 10 states. It then looks back at the Transition Integrity Project's war games of June 2020, Susan Rice's warning to corporations, Lord Palmerston and Giuseppe Mazzini, and Vice President JD Vance on the charge that the President is profiting from his office. It closes with the Justice Department's election-crime prosecutions, including 28 people charged in California, the end of USAID, Mike Benz at the Institute of Peace, and making the November 3 midterms too big to rig. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro 01:47 Data Republican Blows the Whistle and the Washington Post Confirms It 05:00 The 2020 Rerun and Lord Palmerston 10:23 Make It Too Big To Rig Credits Photos - Senator Elissa Slotkin: Official U.S. Senate photo, public domain - The Real Revolution by Barbara Boyd (Promethean Action, September 2026), cover - Erica Chenoweth, May 6, 2020: East Point Peace Academy, CC BY 3.0 - U.S. Army National Guard, Washington, D.C., June 5, 2020: U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Jacob Jesperson, public domain - U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021: Tyler Merbler, CC BY 2.0 - Susan Rice: Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy, public domain - Lord Palmerston, 1857: Herbert Watkins (National Portrait Gallery, London), public domain - Giuseppe Mazzini, c. 1860: public domain - USAID headquarters, February 4, 2025: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0 - Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, December 3, 2025: U.S. Department of State, public domain - President Trump with the National Medal of Science recipients, October 8, 2026: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok, public domain Video - Senator Elissa Slotkin, October 13, 2026: University of Chicago Institute of Politics - Susan Rice on Stay Tuned with Preet, February 19, 2026 - Vice President JD Vance on 2WAY Tonight with Mark Halperin, October 19, 2026 - Mike Benz at the Institute of Peace, October 8, 2026: Mike Benz on X - Washington, D.C., May 31 and June 2, 2020, and Election Day, November 5, 2024: Voice of America, public domain - National Guard, Washington, D.C., August 15, 2025: Cpl. David Carvajal, U.S. Army / DVIDS, public domain. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement. - Stock footage: Storyblocks Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Chicago Thinker on X (October 17, 2026); Elissa Slotkin's Defense.gov biography (House Armed Services Committee hearing, February 11, 2014); DataRepublican (small r) on X (October 18, 20, 2026); The Washington Post (October 20, 2026); Transition Integrity Project, "Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition" (August 3, 2020); The Guardian (October 16, 2026); The New York Ledger, republishing Fox News Digital (October 11, 2026); U.S. Department of Justice (October 19, 2026) Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 19 · 13 min

    Monday Brief: Not Above the Law: Bessent’s $1.2 Billion Strike

    Susan Kokinda opens with the more than $1.2 billion in penalties Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Treasury imposed on Bank of America on October 13 for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, among the largest in Treasury history, after FinCEN found the bank failed to report priority national security risks, including Chinese money laundering networks and illicit finance along the southwest border. The episode traces the bank's record from Countrywide, Merrill Lynch and its $45 billion TARP bailout back to the petrodollar loans of the 1970s, the 1980s debt crisis and IMF austerity in Latin America, and Tom Clausen's moves from Bank of America to the World Bank and back. It then turns to Bank of America's chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan, chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative founded by King Charles and of the World Economic Forum's International Business Council, and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance launched in April 2021. It closes with Secretary Bessent's statement to the IMF. World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok on growth, exchange rates and energy, including an initial U.S. contribution to the Nuclear Energy Assistance Trust Fund, and the gap in nuclear power between the OECD and the developing world. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 00:58 The $1.2 Billion Hammer 05:52 Time to Rename the Bank of 'America'? 09:15 Bessent Challenges the Whole Model Credits Photos - A. W. (Tom) Clausen with President Reagan, Oval Office, May 15, 1981: White House / Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, public domain - Brian Moynihan, official portrait, Homeland Security Advisory Council, 2022: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, public domain - Charles, then Prince of Wales, COP26, Glasgow, November 2, 2021: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz, public domain - Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum, Davos, January 27, 2018: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, public domain - Angelo Mozilo, CEO of Countrywide Financial, at HUD, February 21, 2002: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, public domain - Sen. Thom Tillis, official portrait: U.S. Senate, public domain - Roy Cooper, July 25, 2019: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell, public domain - Garigliano nuclear power plant, Italy, 1970: Demaag (Wikimedia Commons), CC0 - Indira Gandhi, March 21, 1977, and Anwar Sadat, June 15, 1981: Nationaal Archief / Anefo, CC0 - The Shah of Iran with President Nixon, Oval Office, July 24, 1973: National Archives, public domain - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress, public domain - Atucha nuclear plant, Argentina, December 5, 2017: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, public domain - Scott Bessent, official portrait: U.S. Department of the Treasury Video - Brian Moynihan interviewed by David Westin, Balance of Power, June 17, 2021: Bloomberg Television - President Nixon's address to the nation, August 15, 1971: Richard Nixon Presidential Library (White House Communications Agency), public domain - Port-of-entry inspections: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, public domain - Stock footage: Storyblocks Map: Natural Earth Articles, posts and documents quoted: U.S. Department of the Treasury (October 13 and October 14, 2026); The Brussels Times (October 12, 2026); The New York Times (October 14, 2026); Fox News (October 13, 2026); U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder (August 21, 2014); FDIC, History of the Eighties: Lessons for the Future (1997); Bank of America newsroom, Brian Moynihan biography; Bloomberg (October 13, 2026); on X: @judyshel (October 14, 2026); Reuters (June 11, 2025) Data: World Nuclear Association, world nuclear power reactors (October 16, 2026); Net-Zero Banking Alliance founding signatories (April 21, 2021) and Bloomberg (October 8, 2021) Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 17 · 12 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: Did Trump Just Cause Europe to Commit Suicide or Are They Just Doing It Themselves

    Barbara Boyd opens with President Trump's remarks to reporters on Friday, before his Georgia rally, about Ukraine's President Zelensky: he knows the details of how the war began, and at some point he will release them. She argues that the real story of the war's origins threatens what remains of Washington's Deep State, and is driving Europe and Canada into acts of state suicide to keep the war going. The episode follows the President's push to bring down diesel prices ahead of the November 3 midterms, from the threatened U.S. export ban and the emergency diesel stocks of France and Germany to the Treasury license for Russian diesel, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on America First. It covers the peace plan Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed with Ukrainian and European officials in Florida, as reported by David Ignatius, the restriction of Starshield, and the President's Newsmax interview. It then turns to the European and Canadian response: Anne Applebaum on the Ukrainian army, the EU summit in Brussels and Ukraine's €70 billion financing gap, Ukraine's shortage of Patriot interceptors, the IMF's growth forecasts for Europe, the polls in France and Germany, and Mark Carney's 100-Year Partnership Declaration with Ukraine. It closes with President Trump's 2016 ABC interview on Russia and Crimea, Scott Horton's book Provoked, and what is at stake on November 3. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 02:21 Ukraine Developments 06:20 Canada and Europe Make a Suicide Pact 09:36 Ukraine and Bringing Down the Deep State Credits Photos - President Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, February 28, 2025: Official White House Photo (Daniel Torok) and frames from the White House video of the meeting, public domain - Kyiv, February 18, 2014: Аимаина хикари, CC0 - Provoked by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute, 2024), cover Video - President Trump speaking to reporters, October 16, 2026: One America News - Secretary of State Marco Rubio, October 15, 2026: Breitbart News - President Trump, October 15, 2026: Newsmax - Barack Obama leaves Glasgow, October 15, 2026: STV News - Anne Applebaum, October 16, 2026: Kyiv Independent - Donald Trump on This Week, July 31, 2016: ABC News - Stock footage: Storyblocks Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Guardian (September 24, 2026); Reuters (October 1, 2026); GuildHall News Agency (September 11, 2026); U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post, David Ignatius (October 12, 2026), as reported by Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); The New York Times (October 14, 2026); Financial Times (October 16, 2026); Politico Europe (October 16, 2026); The Washington Post (October 15, 2026); Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, joint statement with President Zelenskyy (September 10, 2026) and news release (September 15, 2026); Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (October 9, 2026); Congressional Ukraine Caucus, members Data: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026); polls: OpinionWay (October 13, 14, 2026), INSA (October 12, 16, 2026) Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 15 · 2 hr 5 min

    Thursday Q&A: Zelensky's London Trip: What They Are Hiding

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 15th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: Europe prepares war and censorship, and Zelensky must go. Days after President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and struck a diesel deal with Putin, Zelensky ran home to London, where King Charles and Prime Minister Burnham promised more war aid. Twelve senators now demand Trump rescind the diesel deal. Meanwhile the censorship model spreads from Australia to Carney's Canada and Germany. On the board: the senators' letter against the diesel deal, London's war push, the censorship playbook, and the pollsters three weeks before the November 3 midterms. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro 00:37 Trump and Putin's Diesel Deal 03:13 Zelensky Runs to the King 05:09 Barbara: This Is the End of NATO 11:50 Susan: The Empire Since 1971 15:42 Bessent Fires Back at the IMF 18:42 Nuclear Power: The Globalists' Red Line 32:02 The Polls Are Demoralization Ops 53:21 No Blue States, Only Blue Cities 57:48 Your Gas-Price Questions 1:04:49 Barbara: It's Them, Not Trump 1:13:07 Barbara: The DSA Is the Party 1:16:38 Why Trump Won't Prosecute Obama 1:21:55 Retribution Is Success 1:38:07 Navarro's Manufacturing Briefing 1:41:37 Afraid? Get Your 10 1:52:06 Bretton Woods: Roosevelt Died 2:03:21 Closing: Get 10, 20 People Get our free Newsletter New: The Real Revolution. The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

  • October 14 · 12 min

    Midweek Update: Trump's Treasury Chief Calls Their Bluff: The End

    Susan Kokinda opens with the European Union's largest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the war began, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Europe's objections to the U.S. Russia diesel deal "completely hypocritical", since Europe is still Moscow's biggest gas customer. The episode follows the reactions to President Trump's diesel deal, from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and Boris Johnson to the EU's foreign ministers, set against President Trump's post on the European Union paying Russia $250 billion for energy and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak's figure of $320.7 billion since 2022. It then turns to the IMF. World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, where IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said growth alone cannot fix U.S. debt and deficits, the headlines that followed, and the IMF's playbook since Bretton Woods ended in 1971. It closes with Secretary Bessent skipping the meetings for "domestic engagements", and Peter Navarro's White House progress report on America's manufacturing investments: over 500 projects, more than $380 billion in announced investment, mapped across the country. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro 01:41 Trump Forces the Empire's Hand 04:25 IMF Says: Growth Doesn't Work 07:00 The Empty Chair Credits Photos - Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, April 9, 2022: Office of the President of Ukraine, CC0 - Kristalina Georgieva, Davos, January 20, 2026: Isaac Castillo/Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, public domain - Peter Navarro, White House press conference, October 9, 2026: frame from Real America's Voice coverage Video - Secretary Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury - Kaja Kallas, press conference after the Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, October 12, 2026: © European Union, 2026 (EU Audiovisual Service) - Kristalina Georgieva, IMF press briefing, Bangkok, October 14, 2026 (AP) - Peter Navarro's White House press conference, October 9, 2026: Real America's Voice coverage - President Nixon's address to the nation, August 15, 1971: Richard Nixon Presidential Library (White House Communications Agency), public domain - Demolition of the Rugeley cooling towers, June 6, 2021: Voice of Clam (Wikimedia Commons), public domain - Stock footage: Storyblocks Graphics: U.S. manufacturing investment maps, White House / Office of Trade and Manufacturing Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Brussels Times (October 12, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, readout of the call with President Zelenskyy (October 11, 2026); on X: @BorisJohnson (October 10, 2026); Euronews (October 12, 2026); on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 12, 2026); FRANCE 24 (October 13, 2026); Bloomberg (October 13, 2026); CNBC (October 14, 2026); Reuters (October 9, 2026) Data: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), buyers of Russian gas, December 5, 2022. August 31, 2026 Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again,” at Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 12 · 11 min

    Monday Brief: Did Trump and Putin Just Kill London’s Oil Game?

    Barbara Boyd opens with President Trump’s Sunday announcement of an energy ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and what led up to it: his remarks to the press that it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, and Friday’s agreement for Russia to supply diesel to the United States and the world, with a Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027. She argues that Trump and Putin have exposed the game being played by the City of London: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s refineries, which the Washington Post examined, keep fuel prices high ahead of the November 3 midterms, while the Financial Times reports the administration threatened to cut off weapons and intelligence if the attacks continued, and members of Congress move against the deal. After President Zelensky’s interview on ABC’s This Week blaming high prices on the war in the Middle East, the episode turns to the energy wars: Russia’s ban on fuel exports, U.S. diesel above $6 a gallon, no major new U.S. refinery since 1977, and Europe’s emergency diesel stocks, held mainly by Germany and France, until Trump’s export threat brought a G7 release of 100 million barrels of oil and diesel. It closes with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Operation Economic Outcast against Iran’s regime, the petrodollar system and London’s commodity markets since the 1971 collapse of Bretton Woods, President Putin’s case for long-term contracts between producing and consuming nations, the Conservative Treehouse’s argument that the world’s biggest economy is aligning against the financial schemes of London while retaining the dollar, and Secretary Bessent’s chart on prices under Biden and Trump. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 03:05 The Trump/Putin Trap 05:53 The Energy Wars and the City of London 07:24 Is A New Economic Order at Hand? Credits Photos - Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025: U.S. Department of Defense / Benjamin D. Applebaum, public domain Video - President Trump speaking to the press, October 10, 2026: The White House, public domain - President Zelensky on This Week, October 11, 2026: ABC News - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury / Fox News - President Zelensky with a U.S. congressional delegation, Kyiv, October 9, 2026 (x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2108607485342790142) - President Nixon’s address to the nation, August 15, 1971: public domain - U.S. Navy footage (U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, DVIDS), public domain - Stock footage: Storyblocks Articles, posts and documents quoted: on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 9 and 11, 2026); on X: @ZelenskyyUa, @SecScottBessent; U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post (October 11, 2026); Financial Times (October 11, 2026); Ukrainska Pravda (October 11, 2026); International Energy Agency (September 17, 2026); U.S. Energy Information Administration, “When was the last refinery built in the United States?”; Reuters (October 1, 2026); BBC News (October 2, 2026); TASS (October 21, 2021); The Conservative Treehouse (October 10, 2026) Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. retail diesel prices Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 10 · 12 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: Soros Panics: Trump Cuts Russia Deal

    Susan Kokinda opens with two Friday announcements: President Trump’s Truth Social post on his call with Vladimir Putin, in which Russia agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global market, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court. She argues both are part of the administration’s war on the post-war globalist system and on one of its architects, George Soros. The episode follows the pressure campaign since the strikes on Iran seven months ago, from shipping insurance in the Strait of Hormuz to diesel prices going into the November 3 midterms, the G7’s release of 100 million barrels, the Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027, the President thanking Putin, and the objections from Ukraine’s President Zelensky and the advocacy group Razom for Ukraine. It then turns to Rubio’s case against the ICC, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the UN commission on Gaza, the Nobel committee’s statement on international law, and President Trump’s response. It closes with Rubio’s speech on Western civilization in Athens, set against the philosophy of Soros’s mentor Karl Popper, and the President’s Columbus Day proclamation quoting Pope Leo XIII’s 1892 encyclical on Columbus. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 01:12 The Hunt for Red October's Surprise 05:33 Rubio Guts the ICC 08:29 Athens versus the Open Society Credits Photos - George Soros, May 13, 2014: U.S. Department of State, public domain - The International Criminal Court, The Hague, 2024: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_International_Criminal_Court_(ICC)_at_The_Hague_(53877987960).jpg - Paul Kagame, Donald Trump and Félix Tshisekedi, Washington Accords, December 4, 2025: Official White House Photo, public domain - Secretary Rubio in Athens, October 7, 2026: U.S. Department of State, public domain - Karl Popper: Franz Barta, LSE Library (no known copyright restrictions) - The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. I (Routledge, 1945): public domain - Plato, Capitoline Museums: Marie-Lan Nguyen, public domain - The Acropolis, Athens: Jebulon, CC0 - Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 - Pope Leo XIII, about 1896: public domain Video - Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the ICC sanctions, October 9, 2026 (x.com/SecRubio/status/2108565647667904647) - President Trump speaking to the press, October 9, 2026: The White House, public domain - Secretary Rubio's remarks in Athens, October 7, 2026: U.S. Department of State, public domain - U.S. Navy footage (U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, DVIDS), public domain - Stock footage: Storyblocks Articles, posts and documents quoted: on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 9, 2026); on X: @SecRubio, @ZelenskyyUa, @razomforukraine; U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); BBC News (October 9, 2026); International Criminal Court press release (March 17, 2023); Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement (October 9, 2026); The White House, Columbus Day 2026 proclamation; Pope Leo XIII, Quarto Abeunte Saeculo (1892) Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. retail diesel prices Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again,” at Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 8 · 2 hr 4 min

    Thursday Q&A: The Midterms Will Be Won on the Economy, Here's Why

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 8th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: Trump's economic blitz, and why we're winning. Economics is the midterm issue. The campaign isn't four weeks out as wallpaper; the blitz is underway now. Iowa's planned $15B Mesabi mega mill, Alaska LNG plus the Beluga. Healy Railbelt line, Alabama's $3.2B I-10 Mobile River Bridge groundbreaking, Sparrows Point rebuilt for this century, set against Barbara's short tease: towns that lost their factories versus productive rebuild. Midterms decide which map wins. On the board: pledges vs shovels, what's firm vs still being negotiated in Iowa and Korea/Alaska, Railbelt timelines (not before 2030), Sparrows Point as the image of building again, and how to talk re-industrialization with neighbors who only hear gas prices. Susan stays on the economic offensive. Midterms starting now. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro 01:16 Trump at Sparrows Point: Taxpayers Get a 40% Stake 02:58 Anduril's $3.7B and the Navy's $2.9B 04:32 Barbara Sets Up Rubio in Athens 05:43 Rubio: Reindustrialize or Accept Decline 10:25 Barbara: Why We Fight, Beyond the Immediate 12:41 Mamdani Shouted Down: Jacobins Eat Their Own 16:04 Susan: Rubio Just Obliterated Adam Smith 21:21 Barbara's Sparrows Point Story 22:33 Why Bethlehem Steel Died 26:08 Susan's Economic Wins: $26 Billion in a Week 28:57 Build Things, Don't Hold Opinions 31:27 Adopt a Founder as Your Friend 33:07 Your Gas-Price Questions 34:40 Light Crude, Heavy Refineries 36:43 Diesel From Europe, Gas Tax Suspended 39:40 NAWAPA: The Water Project We Abandoned 42:20 Early Voting or Election Day? 46:09 Apollo Paid Back $8 for Every $1 49:10 The Race to the Moon's South Pole 50:19 Skilled Trades: 300,000 Workers Short 52:22 Getting the Whole GOP on Board 54:57 Barbara: The Media Block and Our Job 1:01:32 Prices Still High: Fixed Incomes Ask Why 1:05:16 Susan: Vote for Where the Country Is Going 1:08:33 Barbara: How We Got Here 1:12:20 Thumos: Passion Guided by Reason 1:17:58 "I Don't Listen to Old People" 1:22:09 France Burns: A Jacobin Replay 1:30:00 What Comes Next for Britain? 1:36:46 Susan: Find the Republicans in Your Own History 1:39:53 How the Empire Works, and How Trump Flips Wall Street 1:49:14 Rabbit Holes and Secret Rescues 1:51:35 The Cornell Seven and the War on Young Men 1:56:27 Why Trump Doesn't Say "American System" 1:59:40 Bad Republicans? It's a Numbers Game 2:03:25 Closing: Everybody Get 10 People Get our free Newsletter New: The Real Revolution. The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

  • October 7 · 15 min

    Midweek Update: Donroe Doctrine Frees Brazil from Commies

    Barbara Boyd opens with Sunday's first round in Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro took 47.03% to President Lula da Silva's 45.16%, a result London's Guardian called a shock, ahead of the October 25 runoff. She traces the battle for Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro's narrow defeat in 2022, the January 8, 2023 riots in Brasília, his 2025 conviction in a case overseen by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's response, and the Bolsonaro family's gains in Sunday's vote, set against the nationalist wins across Latin America that she ties to the administration's revival of the Monroe Doctrine and the shutdown of USAID. She also looks at China's place as Brazil's biggest customer and at who owns Petrobras. The episode then turns to Sparrows Point in Baltimore County, Maryland, once the world's largest steel mill, where President Trump launched Anduril's $3.7 billion Arsenal-2 shipyard on Tuesday, building components for the Navy's Virginia-class submarines with 3,100 permanent jobs. It closes with Mike Benz, speaking with Benny Johnson, on why financier cartels profit when the state runs the economy, from Big Pharma to climate finance, and Chamath Palihapitiya on why Barack Obama is pushing Democrats toward government regulation of AI. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro 01:55 The Epic Battle for Brazil 06:39 Sparrows Point Lives Again 10:12 Why Would Capitalists Support Socialism and Communism? Credits Photos - Lula and Fidel Castro, Havana, 1980: Delfim Martins/Agência F4, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lula_e_Fidel_Castro_em_Havana,_Cuba,_em_1980.jpg) - Jair Bolsonaro, 2020, and Michelle Bolsonaro, 2019: U.S. Embassy Brasília, public domain (flickr.com/photos/embaixadaeua-brasil) - Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, 2019: Getty Images, via BBC News - National Congress, January 8, 2023: security camera, CPMI 8 de Janeiro final report (Senado Federal), public domain - Alexandre de Moraes, Viviane Barci de Moraes and Lula, January 1, 2023: Ricardo Stuckert/PR, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), flickr.com/photos/palaciodoplanalto/52621635701, cropped - Carlos Bolsonaro, 2022: Alan Santos/PR, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), flickr.com/photos/palaciodoplanalto/51884655852, cropped - Jair Renan Bolsonaro, 2021: TOGURO (youtube.com/watch?v=vHdmseDnrEU), CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), cropped - Liberty ship launch, Kaiser Shipyards: Louis Lee, National Park Service, public domain Video - President Trump at Sparrows Point, October 6, 2026: The White House, public domain - Mike Benz on The Benny Show, October 5, 2026 (x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/2107198915506499684) - Chamath Palihapitiya on the All-In Podcast, September 26, 2026 (youtube.com/watch?v=cvP_1jmnkmM) - Stock footage: Storyblocks Articles and posts quoted: The Guardian (October 5, 2026); BBC News (March 20, 2019); Reuters (August 8, 2021); WYPR (October 6, 2026); BuildSubmarines.com (December 6, 2024; photo: Elonte Davis); on X: @SecRubio, @TheLastRefuge2, @PalmerLuckey, @anduriltech, @MikeBenzCyber Maps and data: Natural Earth (public domain); election results from AS/COA, Axios, AP, NPR, MercoPress, Michigan Public and Brazil's TSE; exports from Comex Stat (MDIC); Petrobras fact sheet (December 2025) and notice of May 21, 2026 (via CNN Brasil) Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 5 · 11 min

    Monday Brief: It's Over: IRGC Mistake Confirms Trump's Hit

    Susan Kokinda opens with the 26-page open letter Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed to the American people weeks before the midterms, which the State Department dismissed as desperate and the Daily Wire read as a call to vote Democrat. She argues the letter tells a bigger story than anyone is reporting: it names the CIA, Israel and the military-industrial complex, but never once the British. After President Trump’s “easy way or the hard way” remark on Iran, and his statement at the U.N. that the election won’t influence his Iran policy, the episode revisits the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, whom the letter calls an “Americanophile,” after he nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today’s BP, and cites National Security Archive documents showing the British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration in late 1952 to propose a coup. It then turns to a Foreign Affairs newsletter citing the 1956 Suez crisis as a parallel to the war with Iran, President Eisenhower’s refusal to back Britain and France at Suez, and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1955 Foreign Affairs article on how the British ran Egypt. It closes with Richard Haass on Morning Joe, the morning after Trump’s U.N. speech, calling it “the end of 80 years of American foreign policy,” Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on Europe having to defend itself against the U.S., and Mark Carney telling the New York Times he spent the past year preparing for the “extreme tail risk” of U.S. military action against Canada. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 01:15 The Easy Way or the Hard Way 05:52 Suez and Hormuz 09:00 Serious, Serious Stuff Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again,” at Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 3 · 15 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: Europe Caves

    Barbara Boyd opens with diesel: as Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries tighten the world’s supply, President Trump threatened to halt U.S. diesel exports unless Europe released its emergency stocks, and the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels. She presents it as the opening move of a 35-day economic offensive running into the midterms. The week of action includes Trump’s visit to the Peterbilt truck plant in Denton, Texas, where employee Sarah Renshaw credited tariffs for 1,000 new jobs; his Oklahoma rally; a White House luncheon with tech leaders on superintelligence; what the White House calls the largest steel plant ever built in the United States, coming to Iowa; Vice President Vance at the groundbreaking of Saronic’s Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas; and South Korea’s plans for an Alaska LNG pipeline, a 6-gigawatt power plant in Texas and eight nuclear reactors. On affordability, the episode walks through price increases under Biden (energy up 33% from January 2021 to January 2025), Vice President Vance on the inflation crisis he says the administration inherited, refining capacity, housing regulation and immigration, Secretary Kennedy at the MAHA Summit on AI giving every patient a better-informed second opinion, and the White House fraud task force’s crackdown on Obamacare enrollments. It closes with Michael Shellenberger’s account of the student riots in France, French intelligence tying the movement to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed (LFI), and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on a new golden age of space exploration. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 02:04 The Offensive Begins 06:29 The Touchstones of Affordability 11:49 The French Riots Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again,” at Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • October 1 · 2 hr 3 min

    Thursday Q&A: Why Gas Prices Are a Distraction (Two Systems at War)

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 2nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: the physical economy build-out is the midterm fight. Iowa’s planned $15B Mesabi Metallics mega mill, mine to mill, Minnesota ore to Lee County steel, and the rest of the economic revolution they don’t want you to see. Then Barbara’s lane: physical build-out versus “gas my ass”, productive identity versus the service-economy jobs talk. Less than five weeks to November 3. On the board: Iowa steel verified (largest-in-U.S. / mega class, not world #1), EXIM-backed Minnesota iron ore, WH manufacturing/steel stats, and what a productive American identity actually means before the midterms. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what’s on your mind. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro 00:46 White House App + Iowa Steel Overnight 01:40 Super Intelligence Reframe 05:44 Barbara: Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution 07:21 1971 Break and the Physical Economy 11:00 Susan: City of London, and Unexpected Optimism on Fox 12:16 Brian Kilmeade Clip: Stop Whining About Gas 13:24 Not a Midterm Plan, an American Plan 17:56 Tariff Investments Day After Day 21:19 Susan: Bessent, Democrats Bet Against America 24:54 Productive Spirit Unleashed, Globalist Desperation 29:44 Mamdani Housing vs Trump Build-Out 32:58 Carney Turns Canada Into a Resource Colony 36:00 Kitchen-Table Pain Is Real, Still a Distraction 40:13 Midterm Bootcamp and the Long Game 41:37 98% Refining Capacity, Newsom Still Shutting Plants 46:21 How Tough Are We as Americans? 49:57 Brett: Short-Term Pain for a Real Rebuild 53:16 Barbara: Get Jacked, Don't Get Defensive on Diesel 54:56 Moon-Landing Denial = Manufactured Pessimism 56:46 American System Erased From Schools 1:01:33 Tools Not Clickbait, Real Revolution Pamphlet 1:05:59 Catching Cheaters, Too Big to Rig 1:10:23 Bessent Hires: Judy Shelton and the Money Fight 1:15:08 Can We Build New Refineries? 1:18:08 Trump Meets Refiners, Decades of Sabotage 1:24:08 Bootcamp Recruits New Political Leadership 1:29:07 British Empire vs American System History 1:34:53 What If London Falls, China and Russia 1:41:44 Steel Mill Hiring Boom vs Gas Yammering 1:44:57 Look Around You, Everything Needs Steel 1:54:05 The Lie About Hamilton 2:02:36 Closing: 10 to the Polls, Make Thousands Optimistic Get our free Newsletter New: The Real Revolution. The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

  • September 30 · 13 min

    Midweek Update: Trump Unveils $15B Steel Giant as Carney Auctions Canada for Parts

    This midweek update contrasts two investment stories. On Monday, President Trump announced a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel mill in Iowa, supplied by the first new iron ore mine in the United States in 50 years, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic and Mesabi Metallics’ Rewant Ruia laid out how tariffs, government credit and a complete American supply chain made it possible: a crash course in the American System of economics. Two weeks earlier, Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit claimed nearly $500 billion in new investment, but the first thing on the block was long-term concessions on Canada’s four largest airports, and of its 167 projects, 63 are mining and metals while only 8 are non-military domestic manufacturing, as Stelco announces up to 500 job cuts in Hamilton. The episode then turns to Canada’s MAID program, with 16,499 assisted deaths in 2024, and to Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO’s first director-general, who wrote in 1946 that “much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” It closes with the official U.S. poverty rate falling to 10.2%, record-low child and Hispanic poverty, and a new optimism about America’s future. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro 01:14 Mined, Melted and Poured in America 05:28 Carney’s Summit Sells the Airports 08:47 The Body Count Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again,” at Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

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