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 Washington's Deep State, and is driving Europe and Canada into acts of state suicide to keep the war going. The episode follows the President's push to bring down diesel prices ahead of the November 3 midterms, from the threatened U.S. export ban and the emergency diesel stocks of France and Germany to the Treasury license for Russian diesel, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on America First. It covers the peace plan Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed with Ukrainian and European officials in Florida, as reported by David Ignatius, the restriction of Starshield, and the President's Newsmax interview. It then turns to the European and Canadian response: Anne Applebaum on the Ukrainian army, the EU summit in Brussels and Ukraine's €70 billion financing gap, Ukraine's shortage of Patriot interceptors, the IMF's growth forecasts for Europe, the polls in France and Germany, and Mark Carney's 100-Year Partnership Declaration with Ukraine. It closes with President Trump's 2016 ABC interview on Russia and Crimea, Scott Horton's book Provoked, and what is at stake on November 3.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
02:21 Ukraine Developments
06:20 Canada and Europe Make a Suicide Pact
09:36 Ukraine and Bringing Down the Deep State

Credits
Photos
- President Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, February 28, 2025: Official White House Photo (Daniel Torok) and frames from the White House video of the meeting, public domain
- Kyiv, February 18, 2014: Аимаина хикари, CC0
- Provoked by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute, 2024), cover
Video
- President Trump speaking to reporters, October 16, 2026: One America News
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio, October 15, 2026: Breitbart News
- President Trump, October 15, 2026: Newsmax
- Barack Obama leaves Glasgow, October 15, 2026: STV News
- Anne Applebaum, October 16, 2026: Kyiv Independent
- Donald Trump on This Week, July 31, 2016: ABC News
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Guardian (September 24, 2026); Reuters (October 1, 2026); GuildHall News Agency (September 11, 2026); U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post, David Ignatius (October 12, 2026), as reported by Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); The New York Times (October 14, 2026); Financial Times (October 16, 2026); Politico Europe (October 16, 2026); The Washington Post (October 15, 2026); Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, joint statement with President Zelenskyy (September 10, 2026) and news release (September 15, 2026); Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (October 9, 2026); Congressional Ukraine Caucus, members
Data: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026); polls: OpinionWay (October 13, 14, 2026), INSA (October 12, 16, 2026)

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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 Zelensky must go. Days after President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and struck a diesel deal with Putin, Zelensky ran home to London, where King Charles and Prime Minister Burnham promised more war aid. Twelve senators now demand Trump rescind the diesel deal. Meanwhile the censorship model spreads from Australia to Carney's Canada and Germany.

On the board: the senators' letter against the diesel deal, London's war push, the censorship playbook, and the pollsters three weeks before the November 3 midterms.

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
00:37 Trump and Putin's Diesel Deal
03:13 Zelensky Runs to the King
05:09 Barbara: This Is the End of NATO
11:50 Susan: The Empire Since 1971
15:42 Bessent Fires Back at the IMF
18:42 Nuclear Power: The Globalists' Red Line
32:02 The Polls Are Demoralization Ops
53:21 No Blue States, Only Blue Cities
57:48 Your Gas-Price Questions
1:04:49 Barbara: It's Them, Not Trump
1:13:07 Barbara: The DSA Is the Party
1:16:38 Why Trump Won't Prosecute Obama
1:21:55 Retribution Is Success
1:38:07 Navarro's Manufacturing Briefing
1:41:37 Afraid? Get Your 10
1:52:06 Bretton Woods: Roosevelt Died
2:03:21 Closing: Get 10, 20 People

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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 episode follows the reactions to President Trump's diesel deal, from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and Boris Johnson to the EU's foreign ministers, set against President Trump's post on the European Union paying Russia $250 billion for energy and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak's figure of $320.7 billion since 2022. It then turns to the IMF. World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, where IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said growth alone cannot fix U.S. debt and deficits, the headlines that followed, and the IMF's playbook since Bretton Woods ended in 1971. It closes with Secretary Bessent skipping the meetings for "domestic engagements", and Peter Navarro's White House progress report on America's manufacturing investments: over 500 projects, more than $380 billion in announced investment, mapped across the country.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:41 Trump Forces the Empire's Hand
04:25 IMF Says: Growth Doesn't Work
07:00 The Empty Chair

Credits
Photos
- Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, April 9, 2022: Office of the President of Ukraine, CC0
- Kristalina Georgieva, Davos, January 20, 2026: Isaac Castillo/Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, public domain
- Peter Navarro, White House press conference, October 9, 2026: frame from Real America's Voice coverage
Video
- Secretary Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Kaja Kallas, press conference after the Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, October 12, 2026: © European Union, 2026 (EU Audiovisual Service)
- Kristalina Georgieva, IMF press briefing, Bangkok, October 14, 2026 (AP)
- Peter Navarro's White House press conference, October 9, 2026: Real America's Voice coverage
- President Nixon's address to the nation, August 15, 1971: Richard Nixon Presidential Library (White House Communications Agency), public domain
- Demolition of the Rugeley cooling towers, June 6, 2021: Voice of Clam (Wikimedia Commons), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Graphics: U.S. manufacturing investment maps, White House / Office of Trade and Manufacturing
Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Brussels Times (October 12, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, readout of the call with President Zelenskyy (October 11, 2026); on X: @BorisJohnson (October 10, 2026); Euronews (October 12, 2026); on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 12, 2026); FRANCE 24 (October 13, 2026); Bloomberg (October 13, 2026); CNBC (October 14, 2026); Reuters (October 9, 2026)
Data: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), buyers of Russian gas, December 5, 2022. August 31, 2026

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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 and the world, with a Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027. She argues that Trump and Putin have exposed the game being played by the City of London: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s refineries, which the Washington Post examined, keep fuel prices high ahead of the November 3 midterms, while the Financial Times reports the administration threatened to cut off weapons and intelligence if the attacks continued, and members of Congress move against the deal. After President Zelensky’s interview on ABC’s This Week blaming high prices on the war in the Middle East, the episode turns to the energy wars: Russia’s ban on fuel exports, U.S. diesel above $6 a gallon, no major new U.S. refinery since 1977, and Europe’s emergency diesel stocks, held mainly by Germany and France, until Trump’s export threat brought a G7 release of 100 million barrels of oil and diesel. It closes with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Operation Economic Outcast against Iran’s regime, the petrodollar system and London’s commodity markets since the 1971 collapse of Bretton Woods, President Putin’s case for long-term contracts between producing and consuming nations, the Conservative Treehouse’s argument that the world’s biggest economy is aligning against the financial schemes of London while retaining the dollar, and Secretary Bessent’s chart on prices under Biden and Trump.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
03:05 The Trump/Putin Trap
05:53 The Energy Wars and the City of London
07:24 Is A New Economic Order at Hand?

Credits
Photos
- Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025: U.S. Department of Defense / Benjamin D. Applebaum, public domain
Video
- President Trump speaking to the press, October 10, 2026: The White House, public domain
- President Zelensky on This Week, October 11, 2026: ABC News
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury / Fox News
- President Zelensky with a U.S. congressional delegation, Kyiv, October 9, 2026 (x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2108607485342790142)
- President Nixon’s address to the nation, August 15, 1971: public domain
- U.S. Navy footage (U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, DVIDS), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles, posts and documents quoted: on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 9 and 11, 2026); on X: @ZelenskyyUa, @SecScottBessent; U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post (October 11, 2026); Financial Times (October 11, 2026); Ukrainska Pravda (October 11, 2026); International Energy Agency (September 17, 2026); U.S. Energy Information Administration, “When was the last refinery built in the United States?”; Reuters (October 1, 2026); BBC News (October 2, 2026); TASS (October 21, 2021); The Conservative Treehouse (October 10, 2026)
Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. retail diesel prices

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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 International Criminal Court. She argues both are part of the administration’s war on the post-war globalist system and on one of its architects, George Soros. The episode follows the pressure campaign since the strikes on Iran seven months ago, from shipping insurance in the Strait of Hormuz to diesel prices going into the November 3 midterms, the G7’s release of 100 million barrels, the Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027, the President thanking Putin, and the objections from Ukraine’s President Zelensky and the advocacy group Razom for Ukraine. It then turns to Rubio’s case against the ICC, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the UN commission on Gaza, the Nobel committee’s statement on international law, and President Trump’s response. It closes with Rubio’s speech on Western civilization in Athens, set against the philosophy of Soros’s mentor Karl Popper, and the President’s Columbus Day proclamation quoting Pope Leo XIII’s 1892 encyclical on Columbus.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:12 The Hunt for Red October's Surprise
05:33 Rubio Guts the ICC
08:29 Athens versus the Open Society

Credits
Photos
- George Soros, May 13, 2014: U.S. Department of State, public domain
- The International Criminal Court, The Hague, 2024: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_International_Criminal_Court_(ICC)_at_The_Hague_(53877987960).jpg
- Paul Kagame, Donald Trump and Félix Tshisekedi, Washington Accords, December 4, 2025: Official White House Photo, public domain
- Secretary Rubio in Athens, October 7, 2026: U.S. Department of State, public domain
- Karl Popper: Franz Barta, LSE Library (no known copyright restrictions)
- The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. I (Routledge, 1945): public domain
- Plato, Capitoline Museums: Marie-Lan Nguyen, public domain
- The Acropolis, Athens: Jebulon, CC0
- Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0
- Pope Leo XIII, about 1896: public domain
Video
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the ICC sanctions, October 9, 2026 (x.com/SecRubio/status/2108565647667904647)
- President Trump speaking to the press, October 9, 2026: The White House, public domain
- Secretary Rubio's remarks in Athens, October 7, 2026: U.S. Department of State, public domain
- U.S. Navy footage (U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, DVIDS), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles, posts and documents quoted: on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 9, 2026); on X: @SecRubio, @ZelenskyyUa, @razomforukraine; U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); BBC News (October 9, 2026); International Criminal Court press release (March 17, 2023); Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement (October 9, 2026); The White House, Columbus Day 2026 proclamation; Pope Leo XIII, Quarto Abeunte Saeculo (1892)
Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. retail diesel prices

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday April 23rd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

Yesterday afternoon, Trump posted:

"THE BLOCKADE, which we will not take off until there is a 'DEAL,' is absolutely destroying Iran. They are losing $500 Million Dollars a day…"

"I read the Fake News saying that I am under 'pressure' to make a Deal. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I am under no pressure whatsoever…"

That's the real state of play.
It's the opposite of what the media is telling you.
Here's what's actually happening:

Envoys incoming. Vance, Kushner and Witkoff are heading to Islamabad.
Negotiations confirmed. This morning Trump posted directly "to the Iranian leaders, who will soon be in negotiations with my representatives," asking for the release of eight women political prisoners as a good-faith opener.
Ceasefire collapsing. Overnight Trump posted: "Iran has Violated the Cease Fire numerous times!"
Blockade stays on, until there's a deal worth signing.

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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.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:44 Schwab's Reset: Own Nothing, Lose Everything
06:20 Hamilton's Revenge: The American System Returns
11:01 The World's Most Powerful Reset

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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 winning. Economics is the midterm issue. The campaign isn't four weeks out as wallpaper; the blitz is underway now. Iowa's planned $15B Mesabi mega mill, Alaska LNG plus the Beluga. Healy Railbelt line, Alabama's $3.2B I-10 Mobile River Bridge groundbreaking, Sparrows Point rebuilt for this century, set against Barbara's short tease: towns that lost their factories versus productive rebuild. Midterms decide which map wins.

On the board: pledges vs shovels, what's firm vs still being negotiated in Iowa and Korea/Alaska, Railbelt timelines (not before 2030), Sparrows Point as the image of building again, and how to talk re-industrialization with neighbors who only hear gas prices. Susan stays on the economic offensive. Midterms starting now.

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
01:16 Trump at Sparrows Point: Taxpayers Get a 40% Stake
02:58 Anduril's $3.7B and the Navy's $2.9B
04:32 Barbara Sets Up Rubio in Athens
05:43 Rubio: Reindustrialize or Accept Decline
10:25 Barbara: Why We Fight, Beyond the Immediate
12:41 Mamdani Shouted Down: Jacobins Eat Their Own
16:04 Susan: Rubio Just Obliterated Adam Smith
21:21 Barbara's Sparrows Point Story
22:33 Why Bethlehem Steel Died
26:08 Susan's Economic Wins: $26 Billion in a Week
28:57 Build Things, Don't Hold Opinions
31:27 Adopt a Founder as Your Friend
33:07 Your Gas-Price Questions
34:40 Light Crude, Heavy Refineries
36:43 Diesel From Europe, Gas Tax Suspended
39:40 NAWAPA: The Water Project We Abandoned
42:20 Early Voting or Election Day?
46:09 Apollo Paid Back $8 for Every $1
49:10 The Race to the Moon's South Pole
50:19 Skilled Trades: 300,000 Workers Short
52:22 Getting the Whole GOP on Board
54:57 Barbara: The Media Block and Our Job
1:01:32 Prices Still High: Fixed Incomes Ask Why
1:05:16 Susan: Vote for Where the Country Is Going
1:08:33 Barbara: How We Got Here
1:12:20 Thumos: Passion Guided by Reason
1:17:58 "I Don't Listen to Old People"
1:22:09 France Burns: A Jacobin Replay
1:30:00 What Comes Next for Britain?
1:36:46 Susan: Find the Republicans in Your Own History
1:39:53 How the Empire Works, and How Trump Flips Wall Street
1:49:14 Rabbit Holes and Secret Rescues
1:51:35 The Cornell Seven and the War on Young Men
1:56:27 Why Trump Doesn't Say "American System"
1:59:40 Bad Republicans? It's a Numbers Game
2:03:25 Closing: Everybody Get 10 People

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