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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's New Bretton Woods May 27, 2026

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Judy Shelton argues that productive growth and rising wages are not inflationary, challenging the Federal Reserve’s Keynesian framework and calling for a New Bretton Woods of low rates, stable exchange rates, and credit aimed at physical productivity. The episode frames her remarks alongside Kevin Warsh’s “regime change” at a Fed seen as crushing demand while backstopping Wall Street, with warnings that a rate hike amid an Iran-war “oil shock” would worsen a supply problem. It revisits the 1944 Bretton Woods fight between Roosevelt’s Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, claiming the post-1971 system enabled deindustrialization and offshore finance. It then highlights the administration’s alternative executive-branch credit channels and Secretary Rubio’s India trip, including Quad critical minerals coordination, as part of a “Core Five” alignment (U.S., China, Russia, India, Japan) designed to bypass London-centered finance.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
03:15 The Fight at the Fed: Shelton and Navarro Come Out Swinging
05:43 Keynes vs. Roosevelt: The Original Fight at Bretton Woods
09:05 The Credit System Inside the Executive
10:16 Rubio in India and the Core Five

Monday Brief: CFR Admits Defeat as Trump Shows America's Hard Power May 25, 2026

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Susan Kokinda analyzes President Trump’s suggestion that Iran could someday join the Abraham Accords, arguing it reflects a foreign policy built on “real physical economics” rather than geopolitical rules. She contrasts this approach with criticism from figures like Mike Pompeo and highlights White House Communications Director Steven Cheung’s sharp rebuttal. Kokinda points to the National Security Strategy’s focus on reindustrialization, “the future belongs to the makers”, and frames energy independence, supply-chain security, and tariffs as “hard power.” She interprets the Council on Foreign Relations’ new “Future of American Strategy” project as an admission that the liberal international order and the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship” are ending, citing CFR contributors who dismiss reindustrialization. The episode also notes emerging diplomacy and economic cooperation involving the U.S., Russia, China, and India.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
02:50 Economics, Not Geopolitics, Reshapes the Mideast
06:51 The CFR Admits Defeat
10:54 Russia, China, India, and the New Shape of the World

Saturday Wrap-Up: Tulsi Out, Trump Takes the Fed: Deep State Is Losing May 23, 2026

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Barbara Boyd argues Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation as DNI was driven by a family medical crisis, her husband Abraham Williams’ diagnosis with a rare bone cancer, and not by Iran-policy disputes, while claiming Reuters and online narratives framed it as an Intelligence Community “victory.” Boyd says Gabbard’s work centered on declassifications tied to Russiagate, the 2019 impeachment effort, 2020 election issues, Havana Syndrome, and directed energy allegations, amid reported pressure on her office. The episode also covers a Senate confrontation with Acting AG Todd Blanche over Trump’s proposed $1.776B Anti-weaponization Fund to compensate victims of “lawfare,” and portrays Trump as politically disciplining RINO opponents ahead of the midterms. Finally, Boyd highlights Kevin Warsh’s swearing-in as Fed chair, his call for “regime change” at the Fed via balance-sheet reduction and rate policy, and cites Treasury- and agency-linked equity stakes and loans aimed at rebuilding U.S. industry outside traditional Fed/Congress channels.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:48 The Real Tulsi Gabbard Story
05:33 The RINO Senate's Last Stand
08:27 Kevin Warsh at the FED

Thursday Q&A: While You Watch Iran, Trump Dismantles the Empire May 21, 2026

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Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com. Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday May 21st at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

The press is waiting for Trump to hit Iran. He hasn't. He also hasn't ruled it out. And in the space he's created by holding fire, the administration is dismantling the last functional pieces of British imperial power, port by port, treaty by treaty, bank wire by bank wire.

Iran is in flux. The China track has been worked pretty well. Treasury Secretary Bessent is at the G7 leading with "No Money for Terror." And in the last few days, the administration has moved against narco-terror networks across the Western Hemisphere. Tren de Aragua designations, action in Puerto Rico, pressure on Mexican corridors, while quietly cutting off military cooperation with Canada.

Midweek Update: Bessent's "No Excuses" Bombshell May 20, 2026

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “No Money for Terror” message at the G7 is framed as sanctions on Iran, but Susan argues the real warning is aimed at allied “excuses” enabling terror financing through shell companies in Europe, shadow banking in the Middle East, and cartel networks. Reviewing recent OFAC designations, Susan Kokinda highlights multiple entities with London-linked addresses and UK jurisdictions, presenting them as evidence pointing to the City of London’s financial role. She then cites the White House’s new counterterrorism strategy naming the Muslim Brotherhood as the root of modern jihadi groups, and claims British intelligence historically built and used Brotherhood networks, citing Robert Dreyfuss and Mark Curtis and noting UK Foreign Office secrecy over recent contacts. Finally, she connects “no room for excuses” to intensified action against cartels, citing recent extraditions, indictments, and Mexico cooperation as part of a broader war on “Dope Incorporated.”

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
02:17 The London Addresses Hiding in Plain Sight
04:53 The British Foreign Office Files: Three Chapters, Three Operations, One Empire
08:49 Taking Down Dope Inc

Monday Brief: Trump and Xi's Secret Garden: Why London Is Panicking May 18, 2026

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Barbara Boyd argues the key outcome of Trump’s China visit was the personal trust between Trump and Xi, symbolized by Xi’s “secret garden” tour previously reserved for Putin, and framed as establishing guardrails for U.S. China strategic and tech competition amid the Iran war and energy geopolitics. She says London and Democrats are “screaming” because Trump is reshaping global economic relationships while Treasury Secretary Bessent lifts U.S. sanctions on Russian exports. The episode targets Mark Carney and Keir Starmer as City of London figures who tried to capture China finance, advance BRICS as a dollar alternative, promote a synthetic reserve currency via CBDCs, and steer $130T through green finance, efforts Boyd says have failed as Trump reverses “Green New Deal” policies. She highlights DOJ election-rigging probes, renewed scrutiny of “Russiagate,” anti-fraud prosecutions, voter backlash, and insurgent politics in Los Angeles and London.

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:04 The Real "Event" in China
04:19 Mark Carney's Third Way Will Fail
05:18 Carney's 1st Project: London's attempted capture of China
06:12 Carney's 2nd Project: Goldman Sachs and the BRICS counterpole
06:43 Carney's 3rd Project: Replacing the dollar with a synthetic currency
07:10 Carney's 4th Project: Green finance as globalist capital control
08:06 Trump Is Back and Rocking Ahead of the Midterms

Saturday Wrap-Up: In China, Trump Killed Kissinger's Thucydides Trap May 16, 2026

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Susan Kokinda analyzes President Trump’s May 14 post responding to Xi Jinping’s remarks about the “Thucydides Trap,” arguing media coverage framed the U.S. as declining while Trump asserted America’s renewed strength. She says the summit’s real significance was Trump bringing an unprecedented delegation of top U.S. CEOs into the bilateral meeting and including the Defense Secretary, breaking a post-1972 pattern. Kokinda highlights Trump raising denuclearization directly with Xi and rejecting war-driven “geopolitical trigger points,” including on Taiwan, emphasizing avoiding a distant war. She contends the Thucydides Trap concept popularized by Graham Allison is British-influenced “fake history” that obscures imperial manipulation, and claims Trump is dismantling that paradigm by reviving the American System, tariffs, manufacturing, and energy independence.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
02:43 The Real Power Trump Brought to Beijing
09:56 Inside the British Cookbook

Thursday Q&A: Beijing: Trump and Xi Reset the World, Empire Panics May 14, 2026

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Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com. Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday May 14th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

Here's what Barbara and Susan are tracking:

Trump & Xi step into the future. The President flies to Beijing this week, the first sitting US president to meet Xi on Chinese soil in seven years. Putin already named the new alignment: "our friends from China, India, and the US administration." The Empire was not on the list.
The Third British Empire disintegrates in public. Starmer is buried. Labour lost 1,800 council seats. The Toronto summit was a wake. Patrick Gaspard called Trump's presidency "the interregnum." That's not strength. That's grief.

DOJ rolls up the Deep State, day after day. Schiff named on Truth last night for directing Russiagate leaks. Comey already indicted. Lisa Page on record that Obama's DOJ ordered the FBI not to charge Hillary. Brennan is next.

Obama's new "beard": Elissa Slotkin. A CIA-spawned senator whose career was built defending the Iraq War, now being groomed by Carney and the Center for American Progress as the 2028 face of the Empire's American franchise. Same drug, new bottle.
Spectacular economic numbers. USTR Greer's export figures plus the new jobs print are doing damage the Democrats can't spin. Barbara will walk through what Trump's tariff-and-credit strategy is actually producing.

Ukraine / Zelensky is crashing. New corruption claims are landing on top of the Trump. Putin Victory Day track. The Kyiv project is over. The press just hasn't told you yet.

Midweek Update: Exposed: Carney's Secret Toronto Plot Collapses May 13, 2026

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Barbara Boyd criticizes Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s claim that Trump will need China’s help over Iran and argues the U.S. has leverage because China is hurt by the Strait of Hormuz closure while the U.S. has surplus oil and gas. She says Slotkin joined a Toronto meeting with Mark Carney, Barack Obama, Center for American Progress figures, and Alex Soros aimed at regaining the working class and preserving the “rules-based order,” while the UK revolts against Keir Starmer and Europe bets on defense spending tied to Ukraine. Boyd cites allegations involving Zelenskyy’s circle and John Brennan’s remarks as evidence of a “bureaucratic insurgency.” She highlights testimony from Pete Hegseth and Jamieson Greer on defense-driven manufacturing investment, job creation, record exports, and a reduced trade deficit, and suggests Trump’s China trip could enable U.S. China. Russia cooperation in space and nuclear technologies.

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00:00 Midweek Update Intro
03:16 Mark Carney's Losers
06:45 The American Economic Boom
10:28 Is a China/US Deal the Prelude to a Renaissance?

Monday Brief: Putin Exposes Trump's China Reset May 11, 2026

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00:00 Monday Brief Intro
02:47 The Carney Doctrine: Behind the Scenes in Toronto
08:55 Empire vs. Sovereign Nations: How Close Is the Reset?
11:32 The Interregnum Is Theirs, Not Trump's

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