LIVE NOW! Iowa’s steel mill Monday. Alaska LNG and Korea’s energy package Wednesday. Same fight: will America build a productive system — or keep staring at the pump? Bring your questions.
Susan contrasts Trump’s Iowa mega mill and first U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years—tariffs, EXIM credit, mine-to-mill—with Carney’s summit: airport concessions, raw exports, and only 8 non-military factories.
Gas prices are the bait. The fight is Iowa’s planned steel mill, Minnesota’s new iron mine, and whether America builds its own productive system—or stays a captive market for London’s price war. Join Barbara, Susan, and Adam live Thursday.
đź”´ LIVE NOW: Why Gas Prices Are a Distraction (Two Systems at War)
LIVE NOW! Iowa’s steel mill Monday. Alaska LNG and Korea’s energy package Wednesday. Same fight: will America build a productive system — or keep staring at the pump? Bring your questions.
On Tuesday we framed the midterm fight: Iowa’s planned ~$15 billion Mesabi Metallics mill in Lee County, the separate Minnesota Nashwauk iron-ore mine already producing, and the rest of the economic revolution the media refuses to connect. Mine to mill. Tariffs as industrial policy. Productive identity — not service-economy chatter.
Then Wednesday, Trump put another brick on the same wall.
At the White House he unveiled a South Korea energy package under the prior trade deal — Alaska LNG (wires cite roughly $54 billion), a massive Texas gas-fired plant, and a slate of nuclear builds.
Same pattern as Monday’s Iowa steel event: foreign capital pulled into American physical capacity in states that matter before November 3.
Susan’s Midweek Update already contrasted Trump’s steel build-out with Carney auctioning Canada’s productive capacity. That contrast is sharper this morning — not because gas moved a few cents, but because the administration keeps choosing mills, mines, pipelines, and power.
Susan pulls the supply chain into one picture — LIVE today.
Barbara’s lane hasn’t changed, and the overnight bait proves her point.
The press will chase the $500 ACA refund checks mailing out to nearly a million households, the immigration balancing act at Hispanic Heritage Month, and the “Super Intelligence” renaming order from Tuesday.
Barbara’s answer is blunt: gas my ass.
The real message between now and November 3 is the build-out of the physical economy in depth — and the productive American identity that comes with it.
A $49-an-hour steelworker in Lee County isn’t a “job” statistic. He’s proof the nation can make what it needs again. Brian goes deeper on Saturday; today is Barbara and Susan’s opening shot with your questions.
Barbara names the distraction — and the identity fight — LIVE today.
Barbara and Susan connect it all — with your questions — in a few hours.
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Author, Michigan-based organizer, passionate student of Plato’s dialogues. Committed to reviving the industrial economy and producer culture of the Midwest and to educating grass-roots activists.
Susan contrasts Trump’s Iowa mega mill and first U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years—tariffs, EXIM credit, mine-to-mill—with Carney’s summit: airport concessions, raw exports, and only 8 non-military factories.
Gas prices are the bait. The fight is Iowa’s planned steel mill, Minnesota’s new iron mine, and whether America builds its own productive system—or stays a captive market for London’s price war. Join Barbara, Susan, and Adam live Thursday.
Mike Steger examines Trump’s fight to break America free from global constraints and rebuild its industrial strength, making the case for why November could define the nation’s future.
Barbara opens with Barack Obama saying he sometimes fantasized about putting women in charge of every government, then takes a teaser tour of her new pamphlet on British-backed “color revolutions.”