Promethean Updates

Promethean Updates

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  • Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump's Secret Weapon Won the Middle East

    From Camp David, President Trump framed a reported Hamas disarmament agreement as a breakthrough enabled by pressure on Iran, arguing the regional strategic terrain has shifted. The episode highlights two developments presented as unprecedented: Hamas agreeing to disarm and Israel and Lebanon resuming talks after three decades, both attributed to cutting off Iranian funding for proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It claims the decisive “weapon” was Treasury action under Secretary Scott Bessent, sanctions, OFAC tools, anti, money laundering measures, described as “economic fury,” including designating over 1,000 Iranian-linked individuals, ships, and companies and disrupting routes through shipping, insurance, and offshore finance. The script also points to the February 19, 2026 launch of the multinational “Board of Peace,” tasked with rebuilding Gaza, as a preplanned institutional blueprint that helped secure the Hamas agreement.


    00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
    01:36 Gaza: The Impossible Disarmament
    04:47 Iran: The Mechanism
    08:13 The Payoff - Bessent, March 2025!


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    14 min
  • Thursday Q&A: Netanyahu Begs, Trump Refuses

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday July 30th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!


    This week, Netanyahu came to the White House begging, his seventh visit, but his first since the Iran war began February 28, and Trump's frustration went public. Zelensky is begging too, with a story about Russian satellites picking targets for Iran that Trump flatly doesn't buy. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda on who actually needs this war to spiral, and why the trail doesn't end in Tel Aviv or Tehran, it runs through London.


    Then, Fauci's diaries come due. Rand Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's private pandemic diaries. December 2019 through December 2022, the day before his Senate testimony. Barbara watched the hearing and read the diaries so you don't have to: what Fauci wrote privately versus what he told you publicly, and where the accountability thread leads next.


    And Susan reports from Monday's Trump rally with the antidote: you can't just attack socialism, you have to provide the alternative. The American System. Hamilton, not Friedman, is how the midterms get won.


    Plus: your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.


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    2 hr 3 min
  • Midweek Update: The Machine Behind Fauci the Senate Won't Expose

    Barbara Boyd argues that Anthony Fauci’s Senate grilling and expected Fifth Amendment stance won’t address the central issue: how he remained protected for so long. Citing Fauci’s recently released diary and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role in uncovering it, she claims it shows public deception on COVID origins and policy while the media and institutions helped enforce a manufactured consensus that crushed dissent. Boyd traces this “manufacture of consent” to Walter Lippmann and points to The Lancet’s 2020 anti, lab leak letter organized by Peter Daszak as an example of consensus enforcement tied to funding. She contrasts real science’s adversarial testing with grant-driven conformity, references earlier crises like AIDS and opioids, and highlights a July 21 proposal by Trump science advisor Michael Kratsios to redirect federal science funding toward mavericks, verification, merit, and advanced manufacturing, mandating agencies to reflect the shift in 2027, 2028 budgets.


    00:00 Midweek Update Intro
    01:39 What Today’s Hearing Won't Do
    04:00 The Scientific and Intelligence Consensus Machine
    10:04 Removing the Consenting Experts from Federal Funding


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    16 min
  • Monday Brief: State Dept. Admits the Real Target Was Never Capitalism

    This episode examines a new State Department report, “Cuba: The Capital of 20th Century Communism,” and argues it highlights a current threat beyond a Cold War frame: Cuba’s influence on left-wing and terrorist networks in the U.S. and the Americas and the shift from Soviet-style communism to Third Worldism, which targets Western civilization itself. The script traces the movement’s post. Soviet evolution through the 1990 São Paulo Forum and its use of parties, NGOs, culture, and narco-terror financing, while claiming Western establishment institutions like the Inter-American Dialogue engaged rather than opposed it. It then contrasts Roosevelt’s Casablanca vision of development with British imperial extraction, arguing the Cold War erased that fight. The proposed antidote is a revival of Hamiltonian “American System” economics, linked to J.D. Vance’s comments and Morocco’s “Donald J. Trump Highway” as an example of development-driven prosperity.


    Donald Trump Memorial Highway video: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116986582428363613


    00:00 Monday Brief Intro
    02:02 Cuba Is Chapter One
    06:18 The Fight that Got Buried
    09:05 The Antidote


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    14 min
  • Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump Wields a Secret Weapon Against London and Iran

    This episode argues that Senator Tim Sheehy’s description of Iran’s IRGC as a “death cult” also applies to its alleged financial sponsors in the City of London, framing the IRGC as a deployable terrorism asset within a broader globalist, neo-feudal system. Barbara Boyd links the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Three Mile Island incident to a long-running push for limits to growth and post-industrial policies, tracing lines from the Club of Rome and NSM 200 to modern net-zero finance. The program contrasts this with President Trump’s stated nuclear “renaissance,” highlighting four private companies developing microreactors for defense, industry, remote power, and AI data centers. It then reviews Treasury actions under Scott Bessent targeting Iran’s oil, banking and crypto networks, and parallel sanctions and prosecutions against Mexican cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations.


    00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
    02:40 Iran’s IRGC and the New Dark Age
    06:22 President Trump’s Nuclear Renaissance
    10:09 Dope and Terror Inc. Is Being Dismantled


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    15 min
  • Midweek Update: Trump's 50% Tariff Exposes What Carney Really Protects

    As President Trump has leveraged tariffs in his efforts to reshore manufacturing and reduce the trade deficit, did you know that China and Canada have been the only countries to retaliate?


    Susan Kokinda demonstrates that the issue is not a simple U.S. Canada dispute, it's a broader conflict about sovereignty vs empire. Just look at how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is staffing his government with figures tied to the British Crown and globalist institutions: trade minister Dominic LeBlanc also leads King Charles’s Privy Council, new Chief Operating Officer Maia Johnson is an American Democratic operative linked to Clinton and Bloomberg networks, and new the Governor General Louise Arbour comes from UN legal roles associated with the International Criminal Court.


    Under Carney, Canada is not a nation, it's the new home address for the British Empire, and President Trump's new Canadian tariffs must be seen in that light.


    02:13 The Machinery Moves North
    06:29 The Idea They Can't Use Anymore
    09:41 The Inversion


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    14 min
  • Monday Brief: Why Trump Is Escalating Iran: Not What Tucker Told You

    Barbara Boyd breaks down President Trump's three-front fight: escalating military operations against Iran to secure energy flows, dismantling the election-rigging infrastructure ahead of the November midterms, and advancing an American System economic approach championed by Vice President JD Vance. She cites CENTCOM’s ongoing strikes to degrade Iranian capabilities and shows the conflict is really about decades-long British leverage over global energy routes. Boyd points to Trump's National Security Strategy, which seeks to reduce U.S. Middle East dependency by expanding energy production and investment partnerships. She then summarizes President Trump and DHS Secretary Mullin’s election-integrity efforts, including addressing vulnerabilities in voter rolls and tabulation systems. And she concludes by showing that Vice President Vance is under intensified media and political attacks for rejecting Milton Friedman in favor of Alexander Hamilton’s economics.


    01:52 Iran War escalation
    06:21 Election Riggers Purged
    10:10 Why They Hate JD Vance


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    14 min
  • Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump's Election Bombshell is Only Half the Story

    Susan Kokinda argues President Trump’s Thursday night address aimed to expose a cover-up of election infrastructure vulnerabilities by declassifying intelligence on foreign interference and related risks, while highlighting claims that elements within the FBI/CIA and DHS under the Biden administration kept the information from the President, Congress, and the public. She says the story was buried in two ways: dismissed by people like Sen. Mark Warner as old conspiracies and ignored by ABC, NBC, and CNN who refused to air the speech. As a case study, she recounts Muskegon, Michigan where authorities seized fraudulent voter registrations, gift cards, and weapons. She connects this to remarks by Secretary Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on historic left-wing political terrorism, citing assassinations as the other tool the empire will use when vote fraud fails.


    01:43 The Election Cover-Up Exposed
    06:48 Michigan Case Study Proves The Point
    09:10 Rubio & Bessent Bombshells


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    15 min
  • Thursday Q&A: Iran Blockaded Again as Trump Goes Primetime on 2020

    Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday July 16th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!


    This week, the truce is dead. After three straight nights of U.S. strikes, the naval blockade of Iran's ports went back into force at 4pm Tuesday, every vessel, every port, any flag. The first blockade redirected more than 140 ships and disabled nine. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda on what the resumption means, who needs this war to spiral, and who doesn't.


    Then, Thursday night at 9pm Eastern, hours after our show. President Trump goes primetime, flanked by Ratcliffe, Patel, Pulte and Mullin, with newly declassified intelligence he says reveals a foreign plot to interfere in the 2020 election. Consider this show your pre-game briefing: what to listen for at 9pm, and how it connects to the Florida grand jury now pulling the Ukraine-2016 thread of the decade-long conspiracy against Trump.


    Meanwhile Wednesday, the deep state fights the confirmations: Jay Clayton grilled at Senate Intelligence over the NYT leak subpoenas, and Todd Blanche in the hot seat for Attorney General. And June inflation just fell to 3.5%, the biggest price dip in six years. Susan keeps up the drumbeat: Trump's economic revolution, the American System against Friedmanite monetarism, is the ultimate antidote to the deep state's ops.


    Plus: your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live.


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    2 hr 7 min
  • Midweek Update: Trump Deploys Full Military Force to Secure Peace

    In this Wednesday brief, Barbara Boyd contrasts the Iraq regime-change war with Trump’s approach to Iran and the ongoing Ukraine conflict. She highlights two Truth Social posts: Trump replacing a “20% reimbursement fee” with Gulf trade and investment deals, and a doctored image of Europe’s “Coalition of the Willing” at Trump’s desk showing North America and Greenland under a U.S. flag. Boyd argues Iraq was an imperial, British-influenced sectarian oil war tied to Bernard Lewis and neocon plans, while Trump’s Iran goal is narrowly to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon, striking military and nuclear infrastructure with minimal civilian casualties and keeping Iran’s economy intact. She compares this to Douglas MacArthur’s isolation strategy against Japan. Boyd then portrays Ukraine as a globalist project begun in 2014, cites Mark Carney’s “middle powers” framing, and spotlights Under Secretary Eldridge Colby’s warning that no alternative can match U.S. defense industry or tech, linking it to Greenland/Canada and “Golden Dome” defense.


    00:00 Midweek Update Intro
    01:48 Iran vs. Iraq, they attacked the wrong country
    05:16 Trump Channels MacArthur
    08:40 Ukraine is Globalism's Last War


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    13 min

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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.