London's Guardian is reeling: Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round win puts Latin America's nationalist sweep within reach after USAID's shutdown. Plus Trump revives Sparrows Point with a new shipyard, and why globalist financiers bankroll socialism.
Mike Steger examines trade, nuclear energy, and national defense through the history of the American System, connecting Kennedy’s industrial policies, Reagan’s research, and Trump’s Golden Dome.
IRGC’s open letter to American voters: it blames the CIA, Israel and Wall Street, but never once names the British. From Mosaddegh in 1953 to Suez in 1956, here’s what that omission gives away.
London's Guardian is reeling: Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round win puts Latin America's nationalist sweep within reach after USAID's shutdown. Plus Trump revives Sparrows Point with a new shipyard, and why globalist financiers bankroll socialism.
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 riots in Brasília, his 2025 conviction in a case overseen by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's response, and the Bolsonaro family's gains in Sunday's vote, set against the nationalist wins across Latin America that she ties to the administration's revival of the Monroe Doctrine and the shutdown of USAID. She also looks at China's place as Brazil's biggest customer and at who owns Petrobras. The episode then turns to Sparrows Point in Baltimore County, Maryland, once the world's largest steel mill, where President Trump launched Anduril's $3.7 billion Arsenal-2 shipyard on Tuesday, building components for the Navy's Virginia-class submarines with 3,100 permanent jobs. It closes with Mike Benz, speaking with Benny Johnson, on why financier cartels profit when the state runs the economy, from Big Pharma to climate finance, and Chamath Palihapitiya on why Barack Obama is pushing Democrats toward government regulation of AI.
Barbara Boyd
00:00 The Midweek Update - Donroe Doctrine Frees Brazil from Commies; Could Maryland Be Next? - October 7, 2026
01:55 The Epic Battle for Brazil
06:39 Sparrows Point Lives Again
10:12 Why Would Capitalists Support Socialism and Communism?
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Mike Steger examines trade, nuclear energy, and national defense through the history of the American System, connecting Kennedy’s industrial policies, Reagan’s research, and Trump’s Golden Dome.
IRGC’s open letter to American voters: it blames the CIA, Israel and Wall Street, but never once names the British. From Mosaddegh in 1953 to Suez in 1956, here’s what that omission gives away.
Barbara on the diesel squeeze: Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries, Trump's threat to halt U.S. exports unless Europe released emergency stocks, and a G7 release of 100 million barrels as the start of a 35-day economic offensive into the midterms.
A steel plant broke ground in Iowa. South Korea signed on to LNG and eight nuclear plants. Trump killed the phrase artificial intelligence. Meanwhile the other side wants you staring at the pump.
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