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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

Latest Episodes:

Thursday Q&A: Why the Middle East War Was Actually Part of the Plan Aug 06, 2026

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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
03:18 Barbara: What This Was Actually For
07:31 The JD Vance Clip: "Downwardly Mobile"
09:10 Michigan's Verdict Wasn't a Muslim Takeover
15:36 Outside the Polls in a Blue-Collar District
23:57 Report From the Unity Luncheon
26:58 Why Not Arm the Kurds and Finish the IRGC?
31:35 Susan: A Crafted Virus
34:08 Are They Building a Panopticon?
39:08 The Vance, Bishop Barron Clip
45:12 Nouns vs. Verbs, and the Two Images of Man
51:54 Is the US Government a "Corporation" Under Common Law?
56:27 Talking Points and the Accountability Itch
1:04:25 A King With No Clothes
1:12:12 Susan's Timeline: He Doesn't Shoot From the Hip
1:16:51 The Yen Carry Trade, Explained
1:24:57 The Derivatives Bubble Sitting on the Real Economy
1:29:28 Dearborn, Sharia, and Assimilation
1:35:39 The Thirty Years' War Playbook
1:41:28 Cuba, Karen Bass, and the DSA's Real Parents
1:47:50 Even Allen Dulles Said Castro Wasn't a Communist
1:55:43 Why Is Tony Blair on the Board of Peace?
1:58:22 Can You Pardon Premeditated Murder?
2:00:32 Closing: The Day Before the Revolution

Midweek Update: It's Over: Trump Just Dismantled the 300-Year City Aug 05, 2026

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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
01:53 The War in the Middle East Hits the City of London Hardest
06:04 Stabilizing Japan Also Screws the City of London
09:13 The Key Ingredients for America’s Economic Revolution

Monday Brief: Why Ignoring Trump’s Economic Plan Will Cost You the Midterms Aug 03, 2026

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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
00:34 Midterms Conventional Wisdom
02:46 McKinley Tariffs Revival
05:24 Manufacturing Investment Surge
08:38 Credit and Industrial Finance
11:58 Skilled Trades Build Freedom
13:04 Productive Powers of Labor
17:15 FDR Realignment Midterm Play
20:13 Wrap Up and Call to Action
21:47 Q&A Flyers and PAC Pitch
25:10 Data Centers Narrative
28:57 Economy Is Trash Question
31:59 Nixon and Party Realignment
34:57 Hegemony and Sovereign Nations
37:23 Senators Recess Appointments
39:39 Jobs Timeline Factory Tracker
43:41 Russia History and Values
45:44 Closing Focus and Signoff

Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump's Secret Weapon Won the Middle East Aug 01, 2026

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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!

Thursday Q&A: Netanyahu Begs, Trump Refuses Jul 30, 2026

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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 Jul 29, 2026

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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

Monday Brief: State Dept. Admits the Real Target Was Never Capitalism Jul 27, 2026

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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

Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump Wields a Secret Weapon Against London and Iran Jul 25, 2026

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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

Midweek Update: Trump's 50% Tariff Exposes What Carney Really Protects Jul 22, 2026

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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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Monday Brief: Why Trump Is Escalating Iran: Not What Tucker Told You Jul 20, 2026

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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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