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| Saturday Wrap-Up: Did Trump Just Cause Europe to Commit Suicide or Are They Just Doing It Themselves | 17 Oct 2026 | 00:12:51 | |
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 Credits | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Zelensky's London Trip: What They Are Hiding | 15 Oct 2026 | 02:05:01 | |
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 | |||
| Midweek Update: Trump's Treasury Chief Calls Their Bluff: The End | 14 Oct 2026 | 00:12:32 | |
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 Credits | |||
| Monday Brief: Did Trump and Putin Just Kill London’s Oil Game? | 12 Oct 2026 | 00:11:16 | |
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 Credits | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Soros Panics: Trump Cuts Russia Deal | 10 Oct 2026 | 00:12:38 | |
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 Credits | |||
| Thursday Q&A: The Midterms Will Be Won on the Economy, Here's Why | 08 Oct 2026 | 02:04:26 | |
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 | |||
| Midweek Update: Donroe Doctrine Frees Brazil from Commies | 07 Oct 2026 | 00:15:35 | |
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 Credits | |||
| Monday Brief: It's Over: IRGC Mistake Confirms Trump's Hit | 05 Oct 2026 | 00:11:15 | |
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 | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Europe Caves | 03 Oct 2026 | 00:15:12 | |
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 | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Why Gas Prices Are a Distraction (Two Systems at War) | 01 Oct 2026 | 02:03:59 | |
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 | |||
| Midweek Update: Trump Unveils $15B Steel Giant as Carney Auctions Canada for Parts | 30 Sep 2026 | 00:13:31 | |
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 | |||
| Monday Brief: It's War: The 250-Year British Plot | 28 Sep 2026 | 00:14:50 | |
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
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| Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump is Erasing 50 Years of Foreign Policy (They Can't Stop It) | 26 Sep 2026 | 00:12:54 | |
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 | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Two Systems at War | 25 Sep 2026 | 02:10:52 | |
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 | |||
| Midweek Update: It's WAR Trump Takes on the Globalist Empire at the UN | 23 Sep 2026 | 00:18:00 | |
This Wednesday update argues President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to indict globalization and mass migration, contrasting his “nation state” vision with Brazil’s Lula da Silva and warning Brazil’s Oct. 4 election could shift Latin America’s direction. It highlights Trump’s focus on security in the Western Hemisphere through the Shield of America alliance targeting narco-terror groups, and says media coverage instead fixates on desk bans for CNN, MSNBC and Politico. The episode claims Trump is pursuing peace in Ukraine and Iran while “globalists” push escalation, citing European voices advocating Russia’s breakup and calls for war. It describes a three-hour US-Iran meeting after Trump threatened annihilation unless Iran negotiates, plus tightened sanctions and a blockade. Finally, it says Trump rejected AI “superintelligence” panic, predicting major productivity gains and a new industrial renaissance. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black) | 21 Sep 2026 | 00:12:00 | |
This Monday Brief argues that Trump’s removal of certain media outlets from the White House is not censorship but a strike against a propaganda apparatus designed to make the public accept falsehoods as truth. Citing Bertrand Russell’s books The Impact of Science on Society (1953) and The Scientific Outlook (1931), the episode claims modern “scientific dictatorship” methods use mass psychology to generate convictions while hiding how they’re formed, enabling control without force. It applies this framework to current policy disputes, saying high diesel prices reflect decades of green and free-trade “zero growth” policies that reduced surge capacity, not Trump’s actions. It highlights comments from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, J.D. Vance, Chris Wright, and Dr. Oz, and lists claimed improvements under Trump-era policies, including falling overdose deaths, record low poverty, rising real median income, more full-time jobs, and early CDC data suggesting longevity gains. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Rubio's Golden Shield How America Responds to Canada s EU Defection | 19 Sep 2026 | 00:14:49 | |
President Trump reacts to Mark Carney’s push to align Canada with the EU, calling it “laughable” and warning that if it’s hostile the U.S. could impose heavy tariffs or even halt trade with Europe. The episode argues the administration is securing the southern border through Marco Rubio’s Latin America trip and “Operation Shield of the Americas,” linking Peru’s participation and Keiko Fujimori’s election to an intensified campaign against cartels, drug production and trafficking, and Chinese influence. It frames Carney as a longtime opponent of U.S. interests, citing his Bank of England role, “green” credit agenda, and support for Ukraine, and claims Canada-EU plans target Arctic control and the U.S. northern defense line. It ends with Trump announcing a permanent U.S. presence in Greenland and warning Canada to curb fentanyl labs and criminal networks. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up: Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Ukraine, Mideast, and the Election: What They Don't Want You | 18 Sep 2026 | 02:05:25 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 17th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: four crisis lanes, the AI hoax, financial warfare, the manipulation of Ukraine, and the Mideast wars, run as one operation to stage an apocalypse before the midterms and break the Trump presidency. The calendar is the strategy. If you don't know what November is for, every crisis between now and then will play you. On the board: Trump calling AI-risk hysteria a "HOAX," diesel shock and Ukraine escalation, Treasury's financial-warfare front on Russia. Iran, and Zelenskyy's rejection of a one-sided energy "ceasefire." 00:00 Adam Opens: Diesel, AI, Ukraine, One Operation | |||
| Midweek Update: It's War: Trump vs The Empire | 16 Sep 2026 | 00:12:06 | |
This midweek update argues that the midterm elections are being shaped less by campaign ads than by coordinated economic and political pressure: rising diesel prices tied to Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure, energy pricing set by European exchange traders in London rather than producers, and continued Iran conflict framed as being prolonged to affect the vote. It also cites Canada’s trade war and targeted tariffs as politically timed, alongside attacks on U.S. bonds and pressure to raise interest rates, describing “full spectrum economic warfare” against Trump’s agenda. A second front is an accelerated AI panic, beginning with viral warnings from an ex-Anthropic researcher and followed by Anthropic CEO calls for regulation, which Trump and allies call a control-driven “hoax.” The script traces AI-ban lobbying to London-based Control AI, highlights foreign funding networks, and links the push to international oversight and reduced national sovereignty. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: They Can’t Win the United Kingdom; So, They’re Dismantling It | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:12:10 | |
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland’s first ministers meet to pursue independence, which the episode frames as part of a broader effort to shift power back to Brussels and destabilize the U.S. ahead of the November midterms. It cites rising nationalist politics across Europe and argues Labour is betraying Brexit through EU alignment and net-zero policies, while Trump warns the UK faces bankruptcy if it keeps North Sea oil “untouched.” The episode then focuses on Canada’s Mark Carney, highlighting a Canada. Ukraine “100-year partnership,” support for Ukraine’s NATO path, plans to ramp up drone production despite limited inventory, and reported exploration of EU associate membership alongside new infrastructure meant to bypass U.S. tech and energy ties. It also claims European rate hikes, bond-market “noise,” and diesel refinery strikes are used to fuel anti-Trump economic pressure, while Trump’s advantage is cooperation with Xi and Modi to prevent war and stabilize finance. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Dallas Midterm The Extraordinary Revolution | 13 Sep 2026 | 01:13:49 | |
Special live Saturday Wrap-Up with Susan Kokinda. September 12, 2026. Fresh off the Dallas Midterm Convention floor, Susan locates the moment on the stage of history: a second American Revolution in two phases. Trump’s 2024 return as the break from the British Empire, and the Convention as the launching pad for phase two, like 1787’s Constitution (signed September 17. Constitution Week) and Hamilton’s economic revolution. The title “This Extraordinary Revolution” is RFK Jr.’s floor line. JD Vance captured the principle: City of Man vs City of God, Augustine as patron, every American child born with a birthright. One Nation Under God. Economics is creation and dominion over nature, not money piled up. That defines the new Republican Party of Lincoln and McKinley. Common sense vs communist crazy. Carville can’t stay with Abdul El-Sayed. Fetterman walks into a room of Republicans, rejects socialism, and introduces McCormick, steel way of life, 100,000+ jobs with Trump. McCormick: the Republican Party is the party of the American worker. No surrender. RFK Jr.: longevity’s 30-year decline reversed (preliminary CDC). Promethean Action/PAC on site, flocked, organizer’s dream, Michigan floor, President’s skybox. Then your questions. Why $5,000? McKinley’s tariff surplus needed a spending commission; Trump’s ~$2,000 rebate got blocked by the Supreme Court; the Trump dividend shares the growth. National bank vs the Fed. Ten family and friends to the polls, pretend Trump is top of the ticket. Drop the black-pill Israel/Iran control story and look at what was done: tariffs, fraud, border, longevity. Local GOP: poll workers, watchers, doors, phones. Epstein dumps forced Mandelson out and helped bring down the British government, eye the top of the imperial food chain. Carney’s EU/China play will wipe Canada’s auto industry; he’s not a dupe, he’s an imperial operative. About 53 days to November 3.
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| Thursday Q&A: Europe's AfD Firewall Collapsed | 11 Sep 2026 | 02:02:25 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Bruce Director and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 10th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, Saxony-Anhalt just blew a hole in Europe's firewall. The AfD won the Landtag election with 43.8%, strongest party, 39 of 83 seats, just short of an absolute majority. CDU second at 17.2%. Record turnout. The other parties are still clinging to their cordon, government formation is deadlocked, and London and Brussels are freaked, because the wall they built around the AfD is broken in public view. Barbara Boyd and Bruce Director take apart what that collapse means for the whole trans-Atlantic fight. Then the board that won't sit still. Trade war with Canada. A Houthi attempt to blow the Iran war back open. Rubio heading to South America, including the war on drugs. And the Monday Brief background you need: Donroe Doctrine Goes Live. Putin with Witkoff and Kushner on camera, the first Kyiv trip this term, Bessent choking offshore funding channels, and Trump reopening the Falklands/Malvinas question. https://youtu.be/4FZaqDQSf8U Plus: Susan Kokinda is at the Convention this week, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Bruce take them live.
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| Midweek Update: Election Bomb in Germany Ends Ukraine War Carney's EU Dream Is Dead | 09 Sep 2026 | 00:12:05 | |
A Saxony-Anhalt provincial election saw Germany’s nationalist AfD win 43.8% to the next party’s 17.2%, prompting alarm in the British press and among EU-linked elites because the AfD campaign pledged to end open borders and halt German funding for the Ukraine war. The script argues the surge reflects a broader European revolt driven largely by economics: China’s industrial strategy and competition are squeezing Germany’s Mittelstand, with the Wall Street Journal cited on job losses and a shift toward importing more advanced machinery from China, while green policies, nuclear shutdowns, and the ban on cheap Russian energy have pushed prices 40, 50% higher and cut energy-intensive production by 15%. It links Germany’s downturn to EU war-mobilization plans, casts doubt on Mark Carney’s planned EU-Canada alignment, and contrasts that with Trump-era peace efforts, including a Trump-Putin call, corruption probes in Ukraine, and U.S. officials downplaying inflation impacts from Canada’s tariffs.
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| Monday Brief: Donroe Doctrine Goes Live | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:11:38 | |
Get our FREE Newsletter The Kremlin released rare footage of a high-level meeting between Vladimir Putin and Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, followed by their first trip to Kyiv this term and a comparatively restrained response from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signaling revived U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine. The script argues Putin views the American team as a more trusted broker than European leaders and notes a recent sequence of engagements, including CIA Director Ratcliffe’s public Moscow visit and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s G20 outreach to Russia’s finance minister. With Kirill Dmitriev present, Moscow described detailed discussions of major U.S.-Russia economic projects, alongside claims that Bessent is choking off offshore and banking channels funding Ukraine via Europe, the UK, and Canada. It then pivots to Argentina’s renewed Malvinas/Falklands push as Trump publicly and reportedly reconsiders automatic U.S. support for British sovereignty, recalling internal U.S. divisions during the 1982 war. 🔗 ALL PAID subscribers get access to all the citations, links and resources used to write this script 👉 Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Bessent vs Wall Street | 05 Sep 2026 | 00:12:29 | |
Get our FREE Newsletter A blockbuster U.S. jobs report showing 162,000 jobs created is contrasted with Canada’s 40,000 job loss under Mark Carney, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Steve Bannon that Wall Street and major outlets like the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal stoke economic panic and spread “fake news,” citing a misframed story about Norway’s sovereign wealth fund shifting from Treasuries into higher-yield Fannie and Freddie securities. The episode frames today’s challenge as a “Red Queen economy,” arguing America must grow productivity fast enough to outrun debt, China’s advances, and infrastructure and skills obsolescence, while blaming Biden-era inflation and spending. It spotlights Trump administration workforce initiatives, including expanded training and Pell Grant use and the new Foundry School, an advanced manufacturing program with a Stanford curriculum and international PAX Silica partners. Finally, it covers Trump executive orders aiding ranchers’ beef processing and DOJ antitrust scrutiny of major meatpackers and retailers. 🔗 ALL PAID subscribers get access to all the citations, links and resources used to write this script 👉 Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Bessent Strangles Iran, London’s Offshore Just Got Hit | 03 Sep 2026 | 02:05:09 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday September 3rd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, CENTCOM began striking IRGC targets inside Iran at noon Eastern Tuesday, after attempted attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American service members. First exchange of fire in over a month, then this new wave. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just went with it: Operation Economic Outcast, the first direct hit on British offshore. London's Estanica Trading Ltd, designated as owner of the Gambia-flagged tanker TELA, alleged Iranian crude. French and Swiss firms named too. Barbara Boyd takes apart the two fronts, kinetic on the IRGC, financial on the City's oil machinery. Then Susan Kokinda on the fight at home. The administration is pivoting hard to economic messaging: beef, prescriptions, energy, jobs. Dallas Midterm is coming fast, if you're going, we want to hear from you. JD Vance took on the progressive rage machine in Michigan. Trump met U.S. refiners on expanding capacity now. Plus: G20 Asheville, Bessent's growth agenda versus Europe looting "lazy money", and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live. | |||
| Midweek Update: Bessent: “Cut the snake’s head off”. But Who is the Real Target? | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:13:26 | |
Get our FREE Newsletter Susan Kokinda analyzes Scott Bessent’s remarks to Larry Kudlow about tracking IRGC assets, focusing on offshore hubs like the British Virgin Islands and the broader British-linked financial architecture behind shell companies, alongside Treasury’s campaign warning 60 entities to clean up, with Hong Kong a major target. She argues this financial offensive is part of a strategic realignment away from imperial “choke points,” echoed by Doug Burgum’s call to shift global energy focus toward the Western Hemisphere. In the Middle East, she highlights lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan), and Trump’s “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. She also covers G20 tensions over inviting Russia’s finance minister, Bessent’s meeting with him, and Bessent’s claim of shared U.S.-China goals on Iran. ALL PAID subscribers get access to all the citations, links and resources used to write this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action 00:00 The Midweek Update Intro 01:40 Whose Islands? The Money Machine 04:53 Who’s on the outside in the Mideast 10:24 The G20 and Who’s Back In | |||
| Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:14:32 | |
Get our FREE Newsletter In this Monday brief, Barbara Boyd previews the G20 meeting in Asheville, framing it as a clash between an agenda centered on physical economic growth—advanced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—and what she calls the G20/EU’s long-running Malthusian, “green” framework that followed the 2008 financial collapse, bank bailouts, and a shift toward climate policies. The episode contrasts Trump-era priorities—domestic manufacturing, supply-chain self-sufficiency, critical minerals, energy expansion, workforce upskilling, and new nuclear plans for shipping outlined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright—with European leaders’ efforts to build a “middle powers” bloc and “redirect” citizens’ savings into EU-directed investment. Boyd argues EU priorities include Ukraine war funding, the green transition, and open borders/free trade, and says the outcome of this fight will shape the future ahead of the midterms. ALL PAID subscribers get access to all the citations, links and resources used to write this script Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action 00:00 The Monday Brief intro 01:34 The Past G20 Horror Shows 05:31 The Builders: America's Self-Sufficiency Push 10:32 The Bankers: Europe's Plan to Loot Its Own Citizens | |||
| Midweek Update: Bessent: “cut the Snake's Head Off" | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:13:26 | |
Susan Kokinda analyzes Scott Bessent’s remarks to Larry Kudlow about tracking IRGC assets, focusing on offshore hubs like the British Virgin Islands and the broader British-linked financial architecture behind shell companies, alongside Treasury’s campaign warning 60 entities to clean up, with Hong Kong a major target. She argues this financial offensive is part of a strategic realignment away from imperial “choke points,” echoed by Doug Burgum’s call to shift global energy focus toward the Western Hemisphere. In the Middle East, she highlights lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan), and Trump’s “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. She also covers G20 tensions over inviting Russia’s finance minister, Bessent’s meeting with him, and Bessent’s claim of shared U.S.-China goals on Iran. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:14:32 | |
In this Wednesday update, Barbara Boyd previews the G20 meeting in Asheville, framing it as a clash between an agenda centered on physical economic growth, advanced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and what she calls the G20/EU’s long-running Malthusian, “green” framework that followed the 2008 financial collapse, bank bailouts, and a shift toward climate policies. The episode contrasts Trump-era priorities, domestic manufacturing, supply-chain self-sufficiency, critical minerals, energy expansion, workforce upskilling, and new nuclear plans for shipping outlined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, with European leaders’ efforts to build a “middle powers” bloc and “redirect” citizens’ savings into EU-directed investment. Boyd argues EU priorities include Ukraine war funding, the green transition, and open borders/free trade, and says the outcome of this fight will shape the future ahead of the midterms. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Dark Age to Golden Age | 29 Aug 2026 | 00:14:39 | |
Susan Kokinda frames a “larger war” behind a headline-filled week, focusing on three events: new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast,” and President Trump’s Johnson Space Center remarks. She argues Warsh blamed 65 months of elevated inflation on the Fed and signaled an end to “forward guidance,” which she says benefits financial “high flyers” while harming Americans without financial assets. She highlights Bessent’s warning that immediately sanctioning Iran-linked money laundering could “blow up the global financial system,” portraying that system as dependent on illicit flows and oil control, and notes Treasury targets include entities in Hong Kong. She also cites Trump’s announcement of a major Venezuela oil deal and his directive creating a United States Space Academy, presented as rejecting a “Dark Age” of limits to growth and advancing exploration and freedom. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: London's War on Trump: Carney Fears the Moscow Pivot | 27 Aug 2026 | 02:03:32 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 27th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow on an unannounced C-17, and London's war on Trump just ran into a problem it can't spin. Mark Carney blew up the trade talks Friday night and called it a war. Same system. Same week. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take apart why Carney is terrified of the Moscow pivot: a U.S. Russia channel that cuts the plan to keep the war going. Then, President Trump named the weapon at home. Monday on Truth Social he called the flood of fake polls "Demoralization Operations", designed to keep Republicans from voting. If the empire needs you home in November, the polls are the weapon. Susan connects it to the midterm map, ten weeks out. And Carney's walkout isn't about tariffs. Canada cannot win a trade war with the country that takes 72% of its goods exports. Assange said the rupture was for the U.S. midterms. Susan showed the strike force: a Democratic operative running "United States Stakeholder Strategy," Freeland's donut strategy, Joly touring "mostly Democrats." That's Operation Economic Outcast, and it's aimed at you. Plus: Jackson Hole this week, Xi on the September calendar, Abdul El-Sayed on Jesse Watters, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro | |||
| Midweek Update: They Will Blow Up the World to Save Their System | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:12:29 | |
Barbara Boyd argues that the most dangerous escalation is the proxy war with Russia, highlighting Russia’s warning that direct British involvement in strikes on Russian territory could make Britain a combatant. She says the UK has long driven the Ukraine conflict and that Trump has sought peace while Britain and Europe resist, relying on war production amid failing economies. The episode focuses on Canada’s Mark Carney as a key spokesman for a permanent-warfare economic strategy, detailing his global financial roles and Canada’s creation of a Defense Security and Resilience Bank to fund defense mobilization without citizen involvement. Boyd also describes Carney’s actions against the U.S., including trade disputes, deeper EU alignment, and Arctic defense plans. She claims a coordinated “chaos” and “psychological warfare” campaign targets U.S. voters ahead of the midterms. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: Carney’s War Isn’t About Trade and Bessent Knows It | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:14:43 | |
After Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly pulled Canada out of U.S. trade talks and framed the dispute as a “war,” this episode argues the rupture isn’t really about tariffs but about political and financial strategy aimed at the U.S. midterm elections. Citing U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s account of negotiations and Canada’s unique retaliation, the script claims Carney is pursuing “geo-industrialization” and a “donut strategy” to go around the White House and influence American public opinion, aided by U.S.-connected advisers and outreach to mostly Democrats. It also highlights comments from Iran’s foreign minister about U.S. debt and links the broader conflict to competing economic systems. The episode concludes that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is fighting a parallel battle to manage risks from the yen carry trade using tools like FIMA to prevent destabilizing Treasury selloffs. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Bessent's Secret Plan Crushes Wall Street and London | 22 Aug 2026 | 00:12:03 | |
As headlines warn of a $40 trillion U.S. debt and a “bond market explosion,” Barbara Boyd argues a manufactured financial panic is being used to attack President Trump ahead of the midterms. She spotlights Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “discreet” plan, echoed by Vice President JD Vance, to get economic growth to outpace debt by directing credit into productive investment rather than speculation or consumer handouts. Boyd frames the approach as an updated Alexander Hamilton model: sovereign credit for infrastructure, technology, and industry to expand real output and contain inflation, while curbing Wall Street and Fed-driven speculation. She cites Bessent’s focus on domestic production and supply chains and highlights executive-order priorities including advanced manufacturing, nuclear and fusion power, a Moon colony by 2028, and breakthrough science. The episode also features Vance’s critique of free-trade policies, “deaths of despair,” and a $1B Cleveland-Cliffs investment in Middletown, Ohio. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Trump's New Reality: The Iran Deal, The Strait of Hormuz | 20 Aug 2026 | 02:09:20 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 20th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, the Middle East is coming together, and the media is lying about all of it. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, and President Trump cheered it: "A BIG, BOLD, AND IMPORTANT FIRST STEP. WOW!" For fifty years, the Kissinger doctrine kept the region divided, dependent, and at war. Now sovereign nations are underwriting their own security, and Washington is applauding. Susan Kokinda connects it to Trump's other move: ordering the Pentagon to wind down the Korea war games, hours before 18,000 troops were set to drill. Then, Gaza, Iran, and the Oman question. The 60-day deadline expired Sunday and the media declared failure, but Kushner is pressing Netanyahu on the peace plan, Hamas disarmament is on the table, and the administration has a direct backchannel to Tehran. Barbara Boyd takes on Trump's bluntest threat of the week: why Oman? What is London's actual stronghold in the Strait of Hormuz game, and why is the threat aimed at the empire, not the peace? And the psywar at home. Sailors "breaking" on the USS Lincoln. A vice president "unfit", for negotiating peace. Socialists "marching" through Tuesday's primaries. Three stories, one author, and the carrier story is already blowing back on its creators. Plus: Tuesday's election results, the "Never Vance" operation, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live. | |||
| Midweek Update: The Outlaw Ledger: Canada Is Not a Partner | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:13:52 | |
President Trump announced a three-day pause on planned 50% tariffs against Canada, citing a pending deal and suggesting Keystone XL could be revived. Susan Kokinda argues the dispute is larger than USMCA negotiations, portraying Canada as an “outlaw” that enables transshipment “smuggling,” fails to enforce forced-labor bans, and facilitates “snow-washing” through weak corporate transparency and money laundering documented in British Columbia’s Cullen Commission. She contrasts U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s pro-development case for oil and gas as civilizational progress with Canadian Minister Mélanie Joly’s Chatham House speech promoting “geo-industrialization” and a Mark Carney-aligned “middle powers” strategy against U.S. and China “hegemons.” Kokinda highlights a House of Commons petition led by Green Party leader Elizabeth May to declare U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra persona non grata, and notes Joly’s outreach to U.S. lawmakers and cities during the trade fight. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: Blown Up: London's Iran War PsyOp Just Backfired On Them | 17 Aug 2026 | 00:15:49 | |
Barbara Boyd argues the BBC/New York Times story about US sailors jumping off the USS Lincoln in the Persian Gulf is a psychological warfare operation aimed at undermining Donald Trump and will backfire by attacking Americans’ belief in troop resilience. Citing comments from Afghanistan veteran Joey Jones and Navy Secretary Hung Cao, she criticizes media and Democrats for portraying service members as victims and notes Iran’s exploitation of the narrative. Boyd frames the Iran conflict as focused on keeping oil and gas prices stable and preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon, while contending Iran has long used threats to the Strait of Hormuz to inflate an “oil and gas premium” tied to the petrodollar system and London finance. She links modern propaganda to Bertrand Russell, the Tavistock Institute, RAND “swarming,” and NATO cognitive warfare, and calls for countering the “color revolution” apparatus ahead of the midterms. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Kissinger Exposed: How Trump Dismantled 50 Years | 15 Aug 2026 | 00:13:57 | |
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. is escalating economic isolation measures against Iran and forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright argues shipping continues under escorts and rerouting, citing 8, 9 million barrels/day still moving through the strait plus 6 million diverted via expanding pipelines. The episode frames this as part of a broader strategy since March 2025 targeting Iran’s financial networks while expanding alternative energy supplies, including increased U.S. production, changes in Venezuela, UAE production outside old OPEC quotas, and Iraq pipeline deals to bypass Hormuz, alongside a nuclear power “renaissance.” It highlights remarks at Chatham House by Lebanese adviser Jean Aziz blaming Henry Kissinger’s 1976 actions for decades of conflict and IRGC entanglement, and Qatar’s Majed Al-Ansari describing a regional Gaza “20-point plan” leading to a Washington-based Board of Peace meeting on Feb. 19, 2026. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Trump's Coalition Builds While the Left Implodes | 13 Aug 2026 | 02:03:54 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 13th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, Susan Kokinda reports from the ground in Michigan, where a political revolution is underway. Last week it was the primary results; this week it's what the results have set in motion: the organizing, the realignment, and the fight for the state the empire's media can't narrate away. What it looks like when the flyover states stop taking orders. Then, Tuesday's returns from Wisconsin and Minnesota. Trump-backed Tom Tiffany takes the Wisconsin governor's nomination decisively, while Minnesota's Democrats lurch further left, dumping a sitting congresswoman for a progressive who campaigned against immigration enforcement. Mike Lindell falls short, Klobuchar steps down-ballot, and the pattern sharpens: Trump's coalition is building while the Democrat Party is captured by its radicals. Barbara and Susan lay out what it means for the midterm map, eleven weeks out. And Iran boils, the blockade, the back channels, the leadership crisis in Tehran. It's a fast-moving story, so wherever it stands Thursday morning, the hosts will sort the signal from the noise, live. Plus: your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro | |||
| Midweek Update: Is Religious War London’s Last Shot at Trump? | 12 Aug 2026 | 00:14:35 | |
Barbara Boyd argues that British intelligence and allied Democrats are stoking U.S. religious conflict around Gaza, Iran, and Islam to target Donald Trump and the midterms, citing media narratives, claims about Israel’s influence, and a Texas proposal to ban hijabs and halal food. She links New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and Barack Obama to a London. Soros. Obama network, highlighting their biographies, Rhodes/Columbia and NYPIRG connections, and Democratic Socialists’ attempts to delete or soften past “woke” positions tied to 2020 unrest. Boyd claims Britain has long used the Muslim Brotherhood and engineered Middle East sectarianism since Sykes-Picot, and similarly “invented” communism as a tool against industrial rivals. She says Trump is countering this with limited Iran action, economic pressure, Gulf “Board of Peace” efforts, and a renewed focus on rebuilding a productive, nuclear-powered economy. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: Bessent vs the Fake Rebel | 10 Aug 2026 | 00:13:44 | |
Susan Kokinda critiques Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed, arguing that while he calls Trump a symptom and “the system” the disease, El-Sayed actually protects the same oligarchic system he denounces. From reporting outside a Michigan polling place, she recounts El-Sayed’s slogans (“Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all”) and contrasts them with Republican claims that the “Big Beautiful Bill” and pro-industry policies put money in workers’ pockets through tax relief and jobs. She traces middle-class decline in Detroit to the end of Bretton Woods and NAFTA, cites Scott Bessent’s “compensate the loser” strategy, and argues oligarchy is unelected policy control. She disputes El-Sayed’s AIPAC framing by citing larger funding streams from foundations and NGOs, then ties El-Sayed’s Rhodes Scholar background to Cecil Rhodes, framing the conflict as “Rhodes versus Lincoln” and promoting Promethean Action. 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: London's Hidden Hand Behind Zohran Mamdani | 08 Aug 2026 | 00:16:29 | |
This episode argues that Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Democratic primary win, driven by young voters, reflects anger from college graduates burdened by debt and lacking useful credentials, a trend Vice President JD Vance links to decades of bipartisan “globalist capitalism” that outsourced industry and weakened the middle class. Barbara Boyd contrasts British imperial economics and Marx’s attacks on Henry Carey’s “Harmony of Interest” with President Trump’s American System approach, spotlighting domestic industrial growth, mining deals, and Jacob DeWitte’s rapid Texas nuclear reactor build enabled by deregulation. The program then claims today’s DSA insurgency is fueled by foreign-linked money, citing AppLovin-connected donors backing Zohran Mamdani and El-Sayed via super PACs, alleged China- and Shanghai-based funding networks, Middle East advocacy funding, and ties to Muslim Brotherhood organizations, and urges support for Promethean Action ahead of the midterms. 00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Why the Middle East War Was Actually Part of the Plan | 06 Aug 2026 | 02:06:08 | |
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday August 6th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week, the pundits see chaos, but the war in the Middle East was part of the plan all along. Tehran's fighters aren't getting paid, Hamas agreed to disarm, and the decisive weapon wasn't a bomb, it was the U.S. Treasury. Barbara Boyd connects the fronts: the financial war that broke Iran's proxy networks runs through the empire's own offshore machine, and dismantling it is step one of rebuilding America. Now Bessent is moving further. Japan, the bond markets, and the unwinding of the old financial system toward a New Bretton Woods. Then, the blueprint goes public. The White House just released the Kratsios report, "Science: A New Golden Age", the first top-to-bottom overhaul of American science in more than 80 years, commissioned by President Trump. Barbara goes in-depth: the productive powers of labor, the Genesis Mission, and the deliberate callback to FDR and the science drive that won World War II. This is the American System revival, in writing. And Susan Kokinda breaks down Michigan's primary results, especially the Democrat side, where the party's media wing stands ready to anoint a "new Obama." What the results actually mean for the midterm map, three months out. Plus: Zelensky fires his ambassador to Washington, and your questions. Bring what's on your mind. Barbara and Susan take them live. 00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro | |||
| Midweek Update: It's Over: Trump Just Dismantled the 300-Year City | 05 Aug 2026 | 00:13:32 | |
Barbara Boyd argues the media misrepresents both vaccine debates and President Trump’s actions, then links the Middle East war and Scott Bessent’s weekend intervention to support Japan’s yen as parts of a broader effort to break the post-1971 global financial order centered on Wall Street and the City of London. She traces the shift after Bretton Woods, Rockefeller-era environmentalism, commodity speculation, and Biden-era “green” credit policies, saying Trump is rebuilding a production-based economy that requires regaining sovereignty over finance. Boyd says Gulf oil money flows and the Strait of Hormuz are a key weak point, and frames the Abraham Accords as “peace through development,” with Iran and proxies as obstacles. She claims Bessent’s move hit the UK/EU via euro sales, aims to defuse the yen carry trade risk, and helps set up a “New Bretton Woods.” She also highlights Trump’s July 21 “Science, a New Golden Age” workforce upskilling agenda. 00:00 Midweek Update Intro | |||
| Monday Brief: Why Ignoring Trump’s Economic Plan Will Cost You the Midterms | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:47:50 | |
Donald Trump is not a conventional President and if you pay close attention to him, you will discover the pathway to a very unconventional result on Nov 3. -- 00:00 Monday Brief Intro | |||
| Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump's Secret Weapon Won the Middle East | 01 Aug 2026 | 00:13:18 | |
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 | |||
| Thursday Q&A: Netanyahu Begs, Trump Refuses | 30 Jul 2026 | 02:02:45 | |
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. | |||
| Midweek Update: The Machine Behind Fauci the Senate Won't Expose | 29 Jul 2026 | 00:15:28 | |
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 | |||
| Monday Brief: State Dept. Admits the Real Target Was Never Capitalism | 27 Jul 2026 | 00:13:30 | |
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 | |||