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02 Aug 2026

The Hidden Hand Over Peace

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. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda on Promethean Updates.

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20 Jul 2026

Noose Tightens On Dirty Dems

Much has been made of President Donald Trump’s speech last Thursday, pinpointing foreign interference, specifically by Communist China, in the American election system. But what might have been lost amid all the commotion? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also delivered key addresses Thursday, adding a lot more meat onto the platter laid out by Trump.

Here, Susan Kokinda of  Promethean Updates fills us in on the larger picture, involving global terrorism. It’s no wonder the dirty Democrats — like the arrogant Mark Warner of Virginia or Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — are sweating bullets. Their game of closeted cheating is no longer such a big secret. And it will be much more difficult for them to use the same sleazy tactics going forward.

Do we need the American SAVE Act? Definitely. But there are ways to rachet up enforcement — and prosecution — pending arrival of a cleaner and less vulnerable voting process.

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15 Jul 2026

Trump’s Pax Americana

Is President Donald Trump taking steps to finish the American Revolutionary War? By that, we mean: Is he moving to block out the economical impact of the globalists, namely the British, French and Prussians, and establish a more vibrant economy based much more solidly on American capitalism?

How is he taking out the Deep State? What about space alien claims?

Here’s a lively conversation with Cliff High, echoing many of the arguments of the Promethean Updates crew — Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda.   High shares his perspectives on Donald Trump, U.S. politics, the Deep State, extraterrestrial claims, and global developments. The interview explores alternative interpretations of current events, geopolitics, technology, and speculative topics including alleged space-alien narratives.

Many of the claims discussed are disputed or unverified. Watch the full conversation, consider the arguments presented, and draw your own conclusions. High is interviewed by Rich Does Politics, a British channel.

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07 Jul 2026

The Economy That Britain Stole

On America’s 250th Independence anniversary, Susan Kokinda argues that this moment is more profound because Donald Trump and his administration are reviving the “American System” of political economy—tariffs to promote domestic industry, manufacturing, and internal improvements—after it was suppressed following President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901.

She contrasts the American System with the “British System,” citing Henry Carey’s warning of two opposing systems, and says the nation’s economic heritage was replaced by free trade, consumerism, and institutions like the Federal Reserve.

Kokinda connects the Declaration’s appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to economics, quoting Lyndon LaRouche on a state shaping a nation’s relationship to the physical universe. She highlights speeches by Jamieson Greer and Scott Bessent on production over consumption, and J.D. Vance’s call for a Hamiltonian approach grounded in human dignity, linking it to the Declaration’s “pursuit of happiness” over “property.” Here’s more from Promethean Updates.

 

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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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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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08 Apr 2026

They Gutted Our Industries

One year after Liberation Day, the results are in — and they’re exactly what President Donald Trump promised. Susan Kokinda breaks down the blowout March jobs report (178,000 new jobs vs. 60,000 expected), the 55% drop in the trade deficit, and the hard manufacturing data showing American industry is expanding for the first time in decades, proving that Trump’s break from the British free trade system is working.

She then turns to the strategic front, where neocon architect Robert Kagan inadvertently confessed in The Atlantic that eighty years of American wars in the Middle East were never about our security — they were about enforcing the “liberal world order” — and where Trump’s questioning of NATO membership is cracking the imperial architecture wide open.

From China’s view of Trump as the “least hawkish person in Washington” to Putin’s economic diplomacy with Egypt, a new world of sovereign nations making sovereign deals is emerging in real time. What the establishment calls “going rogue,” Kokinda argues, is simply what independence looks like. With midterms less than nine months away, the fight to secure it is just beginning. 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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