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Promethean Updates
by Promethean Action
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
Episodes
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Midterms Can't Stop Him: Trump Unchained
Susan Kokinda opens with Chatham House's October 15 warning that President Trump could come out of the midterms "unshackled from electoral constraints," and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's answer in Mumbai: "we're no longer going to be defensive." The episode looks at the author of that warning,...
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Thursday Q&A: Zelensky Bends on War. Leaked Tapes Hint at a Midterm Meltdown Plan
Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 22nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers! This week: Zelensky's war reaches American oil, and…
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Midweek Update: There Was a Secret Coup Plan but then Elissa Slotkin Opened Her Big Mouth
Download Barbara briefing, The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again, at https://prom.ac/realrev. Barbara Boyd opens with Senator Elissa Slotkin's remarks to University of Chicago students on October 13 about deterring young people from working for the Trump...
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Monday Brief: Not Above the Law: Bessent’s $1.2 Billion Strike
Susan Kokinda opens with the more than $1.2 billion in penalties Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Treasury imposed on Bank of America on October 13 for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, among the largest in Treasury history, after FinCEN found the bank failed to report…
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Did Trump Just Cause Europe to Commit Suicide or Are They Just Doing It Themselves
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Zelensky's London Trip: What They Are Hiding
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...
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Midweek Update: Trump's Treasury Chief Calls Their Bluff: The End
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...
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Monday Brief: Did Trump and Putin Just Kill London’s Oil Game?
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…
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Soros Panics: Trump Cuts Russia Deal
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...
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Thursday Q&A: The Midterms Will Be Won on the Economy, Here's Why
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...
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Midweek Update: Donroe Doctrine Frees Brazil from Commies
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...
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Monday Brief: It's Over: IRGC Mistake Confirms Trump's Hit
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…
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Europe Caves
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Why Gas Prices Are a Distraction (Two Systems at War)
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...
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Midweek Update: Trump Unveils $15B Steel Giant as Carney Auctions Canada for Parts
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...
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Monday Brief: It's War: The 250-Year British Plot
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...
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Trump is Erasing 50 Years of Foreign Policy (They Can't Stop It)
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?”...
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Thursday Q&A: Two Systems at War
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...
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Midweek Update: It's WAR Trump Takes on the Globalist Empire at the UN
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...
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Monday Brief: Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black)
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...
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Rubio's Golden Shield How America Responds to Canada s EU Defection
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Ukraine, Mideast, and the Election: What They Don't Want You
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,...
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Midweek Update: It's War: Trump vs The Empire
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...
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Monday Brief: They Can’t Win the United Kingdom; So, They’re Dismantling It
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…
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Dallas Midterm The Extraordinary Revolution
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Europe's AfD Firewall Collapsed
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...
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Midweek Update: Election Bomb in Germany Ends Ukraine War Carney's EU Dream Is Dead
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...
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Monday Brief: Donroe Doctrine Goes Live
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....
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Bessent vs Wall Street
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Bessent Strangles Iran, London’s Offshore Just Got Hit
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...
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Midweek Update: Bessent: “Cut the snake’s head off”. But Who is the Real Target?
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...
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Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens
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…
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Midweek Update: Bessent: “cut the Snake's Head Off"
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…
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Monday Brief: While America Builds, Europe Schemes To Rob Its Citizens
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…
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Dark Age to Golden Age
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...
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Thursday Q&A: London's War on Trump: Carney Fears the Moscow Pivot
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...
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Midweek Update: They Will Blow Up the World to Save Their System
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...
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Monday Brief: Carney’s War Isn’t About Trade and Bessent Knows It
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...
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Bessent's Secret Plan Crushes Wall Street and London
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…
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Thursday Q&A: Trump's New Reality: The Iran Deal, The Strait of Hormuz
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…
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Midweek Update: The Outlaw Ledger: Canada Is Not a Partner
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…
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Monday Brief: Blown Up: London's Iran War PsyOp Just Backfired On Them
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...
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Saturday Wrap-Up: Kissinger Exposed: How Trump Dismantled 50 Years
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Trump's Coalition Builds While the Left Implodes
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...
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Midweek Update: Is Religious War London’s Last Shot at Trump?
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...
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Monday Brief: Bessent vs the Fake Rebel
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...
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Saturday Wrap-Up: London's Hidden Hand Behind Zohran Mamdani
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...
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Thursday Q&A: Why the Middle East War Was Actually Part of the Plan
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...
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Midweek Update: It's Over: Trump Just Dismantled the 300-Year City
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...
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Monday Brief: Why Ignoring Trump’s Economic Plan Will Cost You the Midterms
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…
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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
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