Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing — and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra.
Hillary Clinton backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Democrats fracture. Can Republicans turn Trump’s working-class agenda into a winning coalition before the midterms?
Broken sailors on the USS Lincoln is textbook cognitive warfare — and Barbara Boyd shows why attacking American troops' resilience is the psywar mistake that will haunt London and the Democrats through the midterms.
Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing — and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra.
President Trump announced a three-day pause on planned 50% tariffs against Canada, citing a pending deal and suggesting Keystone XL could be revived. Susan Kokinda argues the dispute is larger than USMCA negotiations, portraying Canada as an “outlaw” that enables transshipment “smuggling,” fails to enforce forced-labor bans, and facilitates “snow-washing” through weak corporate transparency and money laundering documented in British Columbia’s Cullen Commission. She contrasts U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s pro-development case for oil and gas as civilizational progress with Canadian Minister Mélanie Joly’s Chatham House speech promoting “geo-industrialization” and a Mark Carney-aligned “middle powers” strategy against U.S. and China “hegemons.” Kokinda highlights a House of Commons petition led by Green Party leader Elizabeth May to declare U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra persona non grata, and notes Joly’s outreach to U.S. lawmakers and cities during the trade fight.
00:00 The Midweek Update - THE OUTLAW LEDGER: Canada Is Not a Partner — It's an Empire - August 19, 2026
01:40 The Outlaw Ledger
05:11 Two Cabinet Officers, Two Systems
09:16 The Petition and the Outpost
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Hillary Clinton backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Democrats fracture. Can Republicans turn Trump’s working-class agenda into a winning coalition before the midterms?
Broken sailors on the USS Lincoln is textbook cognitive warfare — and Barbara Boyd shows why attacking American troops' resilience is the psywar mistake that will haunt London and the Democrats through the midterms.
Bessent forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will be “irrelevant” within two years — and at Chatham House, Lebanon’s adviser named Kissinger as the author of 50 years of war. Susan connects the sanctions, the pipelines, and the Board of Peace replacing the old imperial game.
Barbara Boyd traces Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Obama to a single London–Soros network stoking religious conflict over Gaza, Iran, and Islam to take down Trump and the midterms — and shows how Trump is answering with the Board of Peace and a nuclear-powered productive economy.
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