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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:

Midweek Update: Trump Is Finishing 1776 Jul 01, 2026

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Barbara argues President Trump is not exaggerating in calling communism the biggest threat to the nation, framing the moment as a revolutionary new beginning rooted in the American System. It highlights Treasury official Scott Bessent’s claim of an “innovation wave,” reshoring, and economic resilience, then spotlights the June 23 release of Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy, which shifts national security from reactive crisis management to making hazards and adversaries unable to hold U.S. interests at risk through technology and industrial programs nationwide. The script connects this approach to Alexander Hamilton’s manufacturing, credit, and National Bank policies and cites Vice President Vance endorsing a Hamiltonian, anti, laissez-faire tradition. It then attacks Mark Carney as a spokesman for the City of London, linking him to digital currency proposals, net-zero finance, Tony Blair, and a “coalition” opposing Trump, and portrays the Democratic Socialists of America as advancing a minimum-to-maximum program toward public ownership, constitutional change, and revolutionary seizure of state power.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:34 Revolutions Are New Beginnings
06:38 Mark Carney's Fake Revolution
10:08 The Democratic Socialists of America

Monday Brief: Nixon's Revenge: Trump Just Ended the Kissinger Doctrine Jun 29, 2026

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Susan Kokinda argues that Vice President JD Vance’s Nixon Library remarks about a “deep state” targeting Nixon and Trump point to a deeper fight over U.S. foreign policy: an American tradition of ending wars versus Henry Kissinger’s British “balance of power” doctrine of managing conflict. She links Eisenhower ending Korea and stopping the 1956 Suez seizure, and William Rogers’ post. Six-Day War comprehensive peace proposal, to Trump’s Abraham Accords, contrasting them with Kissinger’s rise after Watergate, the collapse of Rogers’ plan, and renewed Middle East wars, including Lebanon’s descent into civil war after Kissinger-era maneuvering. She highlights April 14, 2026 talks involving Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors with Secretary Rubio and a June 26 trilateral framework for ending the conflict. Kokinda also cites June 23 White Sands directed-energy tests and Trump’s January 2025 “Golden Dome” order as reversing Kissinger’s ABM/MAD legacy and pushing U.S. industrial revival toward assured defense and lasting peace.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:34 Two Foreign Policies: American Development vs British Perpetual War
05:05 Kissinger’s Doctrine in Action: How Lebanon Was Broken
08:54 New Mexico: The Stake Through the Heart of MAD

Saturday Wrap-Up: The Dead Communist Behind Mamdani Jun 27, 2026

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Barbara Boyd discusses three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning upset victories in New York congressional primaries, framing the results as part of a long-term cultural project rather than a purely economic platform. She argues the DSA’s internal education centers on communist theorist Antonio Gramsci and his strategy of revolution through cultural “hegemony,” citing a deleted Instagram post from a group tied to one winner that called for the “total eradication of Western Civilization.” Boyd highlights a newly published DSA platform proposing major constitutional changes, then links Gramsci to the Council on Foreign Relations’ “post-Trump world” series, noting CFR fellow Charles Kupchan opens with a Gramsci quote and attacks reindustrialization and tariffs. She claims British imperial networks historically sponsored Marx and later Gramsci, using communism and counterculture against rivals, and urges promoting Trump’s “American System” economics and an optimistic national culture ahead of the midterms.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:48 The DSA's Real Target
04:55 Gramsci, Sraffa, and the British Lord Who Promoted Them
09:39 Marx, the City of London, and What it Means for Trump

Thursday Q&A: SAVE Act Must Pass, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran Deal Holds Jun 25, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday June 25th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

British voters just enacted regime change again. Keir Starmer is out. Susan Kokinda reads it as reality finally beating Empire: Starmer failed on energy, failed on immigration, and failed on Iran, exactly as Trump warned. The City of London's flagship government has fallen, and the "special relationship" has nothing left to sell but managed decline.

Across the hemisphere, the same imperial system is losing. Call it the DonRoe Doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine reborn for the Trump era, the Americas choosing national sovereignty and mutual development over the Empire's old game of managed chaos. This week, Colombia became the latest nation to sign on, and Barbara Boyd breaks down what it means for the region.

And a week after the signing at Versailles, the establishment promised the Iran deal would collapse. It hasn't. Hormuz is open, oil keeps sliding, and the final-deal talks are moving. Barbara and Susan give the honest status check the headlines won't print: where the negotiations actually stand, and why it's looking good.

Plus: Tulsi Gabbard's new disclosures and the intel war inside the U.S., and the question Monday's Brief raised: what about the British and COVID? Bring your questions. Barbara and Susan take them live.

Midweek Update: Kevin Warsh Killed the Rule That Made Americans Suffer Jun 24, 2026

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Susan Kokinda argues that new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s inaugural press conference signaled a break with the Phillips Curve “cruel choice” doctrine, insisting strong growth, low prices, and high employment are compatible through productivity-led expansion. She highlights Warsh’s rejection of forward guidance and his call for markets to focus on incoming data from the real economy rather than Fed “prophecy.” Kokinda connects this shift to Trump Administration efforts to “outflank the money masters” by expanding directed credit through institutions like the Export-Import Bank, the Development Finance Corporation, and others to finance reindustrialization, machine tools, and advanced manufacturing. She concludes that the deeper driver of non-inflationary growth is human creativity, scientific discovery and innovation, framed as the American System’s alternative to the British Liberal financial model.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:36 The Old System Was a Choke Chain
05:30 Building the Engine for Reindustrialization
09:14 What a Difference a Brain Makes

Monday Brief: Tony Fauci's Killing Field: The Biolab Empire Jun 22, 2026

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Barbara Boyd argues that outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document releases reveal a global, US-funded biolab network centered on Dr. Anthony Fauci, traced back to January 2014, the same start date cited in Joe Biden’s pardons of Hunter Biden and Fauci. She claims Obama’s 2014 gain-of-function ban pushed the research overseas, with NIH funding routed through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan, while Pentagon-backed contractors, especially Metabiota, expanded work in Ukraine after the Maidan coup. Boyd highlights a May 2020 Lawrence Livermore assessment describing Wuhan as fitting criteria for an accidental release of an engineered coronavirus, and alleges Fauci steered Biden-era COVID origins reviews toward natural origin while lying to Congress. She links Ukraine lab inventories and broader COVID-era policies to a larger geopolitical and technocratic agenda.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
02:04 Obama Bans It; Fauci Outsources It
06:03 Tulsi Documents the Biden/Fauci Cover-up
09:44 The Big Picture

Saturday Wrap-Up: Obama's $850M "Library" Hides the Files Jun 20, 2026

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- Barbara Boyd argues that the newly opened $850 million Barack Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side is not a true presidential library but a “cover-up,” alleging that Obama-era records, especially those tied to surveillance of Donald Trump beginning in 2015, are being controlled and withheld through a deal between the Obama Foundation and the National Archives. She criticizes Valerie Jarrett and the dedication event featuring Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Joe Biden, and contrasts their rhetoric about community and working-class empathy with policy outcomes she blames for offshoring, expanded surveillance, financial bailouts, and foreign conflicts. Boyd likens the records-control arrangement to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth,” cites Durham, congressional testimony, and Tulsi Gabbard declassifications, and points to ongoing investigations and new declassification efforts involving John Solomon and acting DNI Bill Pulte.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:07 Not a Presidential Library, It's a Cover-Up
05:13 The Obama New New Democrats
09:11 Now Think About What They Are Hiding

Thursday Q&A: Trump Signs the Iran Deal at Versailles Jun 18, 2026

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday June 18th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

Trump just redrew the map. The Iran war is all but settled, and the deal was brokered with help from Russia and China, not NATO, not the EU, not the G7. As the President meets a fractured G7 in France, the Iran Memorandum of Understanding is set to be signed Friday, oil has fallen from a high of $126 toward $80 a barrel, and Susan Kokinda has a name for the club now reduced to issuing communiqués about a world it no longer steers: the "Gee Whizz Seven."

Midweek Update: Trump Cracked Iran After 47 Years. Carney: A Rupture Jun 17, 2026

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Ahead of the G7 in Evian, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of a “global rupture” as the post. Cold War rules-based order breaks down, a claim the episode argues was underscored by Donald Trump’s summit remarks suggesting Syria should handle Hezbollah if Israel cannot without “killing everyone else,” and criticizing Israel’s actions in Lebanon. The script says Trump’s approach reflects a sovereignty-based foreign policy that bypasses imperial proxies and multilateral institutions, highlighted by direct engagement with “the full spectrum” of the Iranian system to secure an Iran memorandum of understanding and by prioritizing Gulf leaders in public time. It argues the real target is dismantling the “terror premium” on oil tied to Strait of Hormuz threats, and portrays Europe’s Ukraine pledges as unfunded, citing Britain’s defense leadership resignations over lack of money, fueling Carney’s alarm.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:56 On the Brink of Peace
04:57 Is Trump Replacing Israel with Syria?
07:53 Carney’s Breakdown or Trump’s Future

Monday Brief: Trump Settles Iran and Ukraine as the War Machine Fails Jun 15, 2026

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In this special Monday broadcast, Promethean Action discusses the newly signed 60-day memorandum of understanding with Iran, highlighting JD Vance’s claims that no funds have been released and that sanctions relief depends on verification and elimination of enriched stockpiles, alongside reports that Russia and China helped conclude the deal. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda argue the agreement aims to end “forever wars,” reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and realign global power against what they describe as a British-imperial “rules-based order,” while warning Israel’s Netanyahu faction could try to derail progress ahead of Israel’s October election. Boyd previews Trump’s confrontation with G7/E3 plans for “deep strike” capabilities in Ukraine and cites new disclosures by Tulsi Gabbard about US-funded biolabs, gain-of-function research, and alleged coverups involving USAID, EcoHealth Alliance, and Hunter Biden-linked investments.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
00:49 JD Vance Iran Deal Explained
03:49 Russia China Backchannel
04:36 Deal to Make a Deal
05:55 Israel Forever War Choice
09:50 Viewer Support and Superchats
10:57 Israel Bombing Update
13:27 Barbara Presentation - G7 War Plans
15:53 NATO Commander Shifts Narrative
17:39 Tulsi Biolabs Bombshell
20:53 Ukraine Biolabs Backstory
28:32 Predict and Wuhan Links
31:50 MetaBiota and DTRA Trail
34:00 Hunter Bio Lab Claims
35:33 Pardon Back To 2014
37:33 Susan's Presentation - Carney Clips Breakdown
43:30 New Middle Power Alliances
45:51 Chatham House Iran Playbook
47:49 Trump Vs Netanyahu Fallout
53:31 Defining British Imperial System
56:16 Latin America Left Shift
1:00:17 American System Antidote
1:03:12 Crypto And Digital Currency
1:05:01 Poll And Closing Notes

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