AN interesting intersection of political commentary has taken place in the US: Leading podcaster Patrick Bet David (PBD Podcast) has interviewed Susan Kokinda, one of the founders of Promethean Action, an offshoot of the political movement of the late Lyndon LaRouche.
We have frequently featured Promethean Action backgrounders and political issues around the Trump administration.
Kokinda spent many years with LaRouche’s offbeat political movement. LaRouche himself was a Trotskyite and economist who discovered the historical reality of American System economics and the physical economy, as opposed to financier-dominated economics.
LaRouche was a strong supporter of nuclear power, opposed the global population control and environmentalist movements and exposed the role of banks in the global drug trade.
His eventual role in the Reagan administration in initiating the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), attracted the very negative attention of Anglo-American intelligence operatives, and LaRouche and his movement soon found themselves swamped by charges and lawsuits brought by US Federal authorities. LaRouche himself spent five years in jail for alleged mail fraud, among other trumped up charges.
LaRouche was married to a German woman named Helga Zepp. After LaRouche’s death she took the movement in a different direction, which some members including Kokinda objected to and formed Promethean Action.
US and western media generally derided LaRouche as a conspiracy theorist and far right fascist. In the video Bet David asks Kokinda about the various spectacular “conspiracy claims” of LaRouche, including the role of British intelligence in the rise of Karl Marx.
According to Kokinda, some of LaRouche’s ideas – particularly American System economics – have found their way into the Trump administration, in addition to them throwing off the longstanding influence of the City of London.
