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07 Jun 2026

Where Bernie, Trump Coalesce?

Susan Kokinda argues that President Donald Trump’s recent comments, praising overlap with Bernie Sanders, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting.

Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Kokinda says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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28 May 2026

CFR Waves The White Flag

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 United States, Russia, China, and India. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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04 May 2026

Putin, Trump Reach Accord

Susan Kokinda argues that a Trump-Putin phone call signaled alignment in blaming Zelenskyy and European governments for prolonging the Ukraine war, followed by the Kremlin confirming a Victory Day ceasefire.

She says the media focused instead on King Charles’ Washington visit, which she portrays as an effort to preserve the UK-led “Special Relationship,” while Chatham House speakers acknowledged that the post-1949 order and US underwriting of European security is ending.

Kokinda then frames the UAE’s exit from OPEC as a major crack in the post-1971 petrodollar system built around dollar-floating, OPEC price control, and Gulf instability, noting new regional security ties such as Israeli Iron Dome support in the UAE.

Finally, she highlights the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital, described as an internal investment bank with about $210B in lending authority to finance industrial capacity and “de-risk” critical production. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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27 Apr 2026

Left’s Big Lie: Trump Trapped!

Barbara Boyd argues that media narratives about Donald Trump being trapped by impeachment, high prices, and a new Iran war are false, and claims the administration has launched an “accountability” and economic push.

She highlights a Justice Department indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for fraud, alleging the SPLC smeared conservatives while secretly funding racist groups and paying an informant involved in planning the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” event. FBI Director Kash Patel cut ties with the SPLC and ADL, while the IRS is banning fiscal sponsorships that hide donors.

Boyd also covers five Defense Production Act energy executive orders to rapidly expand U.S. grid and fuel infrastructure to drive prices down, plus Regeneron joining “most favored nation” drug pricing and reshoring. Finally, she cites Scott Bessent’s statements on expanding dollar swap lines to Gulf and Asian allies, framing this as outflanking London-backed alternatives to the dollar. Here’s more from Promethean Updates,

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19 Apr 2026

Trump’s Warning To Britain

Susan Kokinda argues that recent U.S. actions framed as confronting Iran are actually aimed at dismantling the British imperial financial and geopolitical system. She cites Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s April 16 meeting with UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves, highlighting the on-record “Economic Fury” campaign and U.S. tracking of financial flows to Iran that allegedly lead to London.

The episode shows Trump is ending a decades-old “world extortion” model tied to the Strait of Hormuz, Lloyd’s war-risk insurance, and London’s commodity pricing power (gold, metals, oil benchmarks). It also points to an Israeli–Lebanon ceasefire and Trump prohibiting Israeli strikes, arguing this removes Netanyahu’s leverage built on a perpetual Iran threat.

With London’s pricing nodes shifting toward New York and the “special relationship” weakening, the Hudson Institute is said to be pinning hopes on a King Charles visit to the U.S.  Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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12 Apr 2026

The World’s Most Powerful Reset

Barbara Boyd argues Donald Trump’s Truth Social post—“World’s Most Powerful Reset”—signals a deliberate effort to dismantle the World Economic Forum’s COVID-era “Great Reset” and replace it with an opposite agenda: Expanded U.S. energy production, lower global prices and renewed American industrial growth.

She contrasts net-zero finance and global governance—citing Klaus Schwab, King Charles, Mark Carney and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero—with Trump’s “drill, build, export” approach and the goal of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. Boyd cites strategist James Thorne’s view that moves involving Venezuela and Iran aim to “re-anchor” energy and money in the dollar system, while she frames Trump’s strategy as the American System of Hamilton, Lincoln, and McKinley, not a British imperial “Great Game.”

She connects Iran talks involving regional players to a “Board of Peace,” and ends by linking Artemis II’s splashdown and a moon-to-Mars vision to this broader reset, urging viewers to follow Promethean Action and support midterm efforts. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

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30 Mar 2026

End To The Forever War Empire

Barbara Boyd argues President Trump has been testing NATO for months and is now seriously considering leaving the alliance after European allies refused to help defend shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a move she says confirmed his view that NATO plays “stupid games” while the U.S. pays the costs.

She traces the turning point to the February 2025 Munich Security Conference, where Vice President JD Vance warned Europe is threatened from within and must provide for its own defense. Boyd links Trump’s Iran policy—renewed talks, a 60-day deadline, then Operation Midnight Hammer and subsequent European sanctions—to an economic strategy built on cheap, reliable energy and a desire to reduce U.S. military focus in the Middle East while expanding investment-led development.

She also warns of competing online narratives after Charlie Kirk’s 2025 assassination that aim to fracture MAGA through religious warfare, targeting Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

 

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18 Mar 2026

Zelensky: Roadblock To Peace

While media attention fixates on Iran, a broader strategic shift is unfolding as great powers act in their own sovereign interests. It highlights President Donald Trump’s statements portraying Vladimir Putin as willing to make a deal and Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the obstacle, along with Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stressing that U.S. objectives in Iran differ from Israel’s.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Ministry explicitly blames Britain for using Storm Shadow missiles in Bryansk and for trying to derail U.S.-led peace efforts, amid Zelenskyy’s threat toward Hungary’s Viktor Orban and European Union condemnation.

Finally, note how Russia and China are abstaining—not vetoing—a United Nations Security Council resolution, condemning Iran’s missile and drone attacks on Gulf states, framing these moves as evidence the old paradigm of permanent conflict is breaking down. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda with Promethean Updates.

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16 Mar 2026

Trump’s Surgical Masterstrike

President Donald Trump’s surgical masterstroke — a strategic aerial bombing of military sites on Kharg Island — just ended Iran’s $10 trillion terror premium. The structure needed to keep Iran’s oil industry afloat was left intact, but all military protection was stripped away.

The tattered regime will not be able to continue the war in any meaningful way. Now, it’s just a matter of how long the clean-up will take. Here’s more from Barbara Boyd at Promethean Updates.

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04 Mar 2026

He Refused Their War

President Donald Trump has not just cut the terrorist regime of Iran off at the pass. He’s done so in a way that will bury the NeoCons and end the British “special relationship” that tried to steer America down an awkward and non-sustainable path.

This comes as two of the major proponents of that special relationship –Prince Andrew and Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson — have been arrested on charges relating to their improper and corrupt contact with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Here, Susan Kokinda from Promethean Updates lays out how Trump sidestepped the NeoCons, the individuals like John Bolton, who believed they had absolute control over American foreign policy. They did not, nor did they ever honestly represent the wishes of the American people.

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