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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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  • 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

  • September 28 · 14 min

    Monday Brief: It's War: The 250-Year British Plot

    Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again” Barbara Boyd opens with Barack Obama saying he sometimes fantasized about putting women in charge of every government, and a 1998 photo of Barack and Michelle Obama listening to Edward Said in Chicago, then takes a teaser tour of her new pamphlet on British-backed “color revolutions.” The episode argues that Said’s intellectual heroes, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School, shaped today’s Democratic Socialists of America, and that their real target is the American System of Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln and McKinley, which Trump invoked in Louisville in 2017. It traces the pattern back through the French Revolution, which it presents as orchestrated by Lord Shelburne, Jeremy Bentham and Jacques Necker, through Lord Palmerston’s use of Giuseppe Mazzini and Karl Marx, and the 1917 Russian Revolution. It closes with the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Daniel Bell’s post-industrial society, Herbert Marcuse and the “long march through the institutions,” arguing that winning the culture war means understanding the American culture under attack. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro 02:34 Donald Trump’s Real Alleged Sin 06:38 How the British Empire Uses Communism and Socialism 11:00 History Repeats Itself Get Barbara Boyd’s new pamphlet, “⁠⁠The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again⁠⁠” Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • September 26 · 12 min

    Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump is Erasing 50 Years of Foreign Policy (They Can't Stop It)

    This episode argues that media outrage over a White House “autopen” joke and criticism of Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping obscures a deeper shift: Trump is dismantling a 50-year geopolitical framework associated with Henry Kissinger. It contrasts Chatham House’s “China Rising, America in Decline?” panel and its Thucydides Trap framing, linked to Graham Allison, with Xi’s evolution from posing the trap as an open question to asserting it “can be overcome” after Trump’s UN speech and claimed actions in Iran, Venezuela, the Shield of America, and the Greenland Treaty, alongside a push for reindustrialization. The script also highlights a UN Board of Peace session on Gaza focused on reconstruction led by Gazans and a new security structure involving Muslim-country troops, presenting it as ending “outside forces” control. It notes Rubio’s permanent dual role as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor and frames his stance as reversing Kissinger’s legacy. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro 01:03 China: Xi Rejects the Trap 05:54 The Middle East Pillar, Busting the Imperial Plan 09:58 Rubio Undoes the Architect Get our free Newsletter Paid subscribers get every citation and source behind this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action

  • September 25 · 2 hr 10 min

    Thursday Q&A: Two Systems at War

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 24th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: two speeches at the UN, two systems at war. Lula delivered the globalist gospel. Trump answered with national sovereignty, no human right to illegal immigration, a right to remain a sovereign nation, UNESCO’s mass-migration machine called out, the ICC named a rogue tribunal, and no world government / no global taxes. One system growing and prosperous; the other trying to commit a murder-suicide. The calendar is the strategy. On the board: Trump’s UNGA strategy versus Lula’s new world order, the sideline meetings with Xi and other leaders, the strategic map Trump is reshaping, and the media battle raging over all of it. Plus the Monday Brief you need. Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black): Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what’s on your mind. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro 01:21 Trump at the UN: Golden Age vs Climate Con 04:55 Barbara: Rubio on Trump, Xi and the Century 06:06 B-1 Flyover: Star-Spangled Banner for Xi 09:24 Booming Economy, Gas-Price Psyop 10:26 Laura Ingraham Fact-Check Clip 17:32 Susan: Wages Up, Million Jobs, Hot Economy 20:56 Diesel: Why We're Facing This Problem 27:15 China Deal vs British Raw-Materials Empire 29:52 UN as Dialogue Tool, Not Empire HQ 34:20 Doomers, Third Parties, and the Psyop 39:25 Susan: American System Solves Bottlenecks 48:04 Word Is Getting Out About the City of London 50:50 Barbara: French Revolution Ran From London 55:25 Too Big to Rig, Get 10 Friends to the Polls 59:16 IRGC Hardwired, Trump Won't Parking-Lot Iran 1:05:28 Barbara: Iran Nuke Psyop Is Insane 1:10:49 Susan: No More Perpetual Wars 1:14:31 Maduro, Cartels, and National Security 1:17:57 Europe's War Spoof, Who Really Wants War 1:23:04 Immigration: Beasts vs Creative Human Beings 1:29:18 AfD, Die Linke, Nazis-and-Communists Script 1:34:27 Carney's "Middle Powers" and the AI Fight 1:41:26 American Revolution Soldier Analogy 1:44:58 Not Predict, Fight For It 1:49:35 Door-Knock Path to 10 Voters 1:53:43 Refining Capacity Was Sabotaged 2:08:59 Closing: Terminal Disease, Then We Fought Get our free Newsletter Barbara Boyd Report: The Real Revolution New Pamphlet: Bye, Bye Globalism. The American System is Back! Promethean PAC NEW Midterm Flyer E Book: It's the British Who Murder Our Presidents Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action Make a one-time donation to Promethean PAC

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