Catherine Austin Fitts and Dr. Joseph Farrell discuss the top stories of the 2nd Quarter 2026, including the changes in digital technology that are upending global financial and military models.

A central question is whether legislative guardrails should depend on assumptions about intent. Even if programmable money is developed with beneficial goals, should reasonable safeguards be established before it becomes part of our financial infrastructure? What protections would be prudent regardless of whether the ultimate outcome is positive or negative?

“Don’t Spy on Me” — a week of surveillance stories that read like satire: Flock cameras swarming an innocent man with armed police, garbage trucks that spy on you (your car already does), AI facial recognition at the grocery outlet, and an AI web where “we’re just rats in the walls.”

What does “building the culture” mean in practice? Dr. Joseph P. Farrell and Elze van Hamelen focus on what can be learned from Poland’s development (while a satellite state of the Soviet Union) of a successful, nonviolent resistance movement that built on Poland’s rich cultural and historical traditions.

Ricardo interviews returning guest Nathan Siles about the biophysics of sleep and why modern indoor, artificial environments have disrupted it, increasing risks like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegeneration when sleep is too short or too long.

The first three episodes of John Titus’s War for Bankocracy series, which examines the hidden power of central banks, aired in February and March 2025. While patiently awaiting the next installment, we chose the three initial episodes—titled “Warning Shot,” “A Government unto Itself,” and “The Lie of Fed Independence”—as our Documentary of the Year for our 2024 Annual Wrap Up on Protecting Your Assets.

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John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts open with the U.S. 250th anniversary and preview Titus’s “War for Bankocracy” episode 4A on Alexander Hamilton, the Bank of New York, and private credit addiction.

Carlos Alegría and Ed Dowd of Phinance Technologies highlight many invaluable data-driven insights on the inflation we are currently experiencing.

By Catherine Austin Fitts Introduction A major, multipronged push is underway by both public and private players to move currency, bank deposits, and stocks and bonds onto distributed ledgers (…

As we navigate the acceleration in technological innovation, data scientist and software developer Travis Oliphant is someone who can help us understand and manage the growing presence of AI in our lives.

Efforts are underway to compromise the governance of 401(k)s in a manner that could lead to inappropriate access by alternative investments, including crypto, private equity, and hedge funds. Tiffany Cianci and Catherine discuss what is happening and consider some of the other meltdowns in our financial regulation and standards.

The ongoing sabotage or destruction of oil and gas production and refining and transportation facilities worldwide is an important pattern, as are rising costs or renegotiated agreements relating to trade channels and bottlenecks.

John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts argue the Iran conflict can be “lost” on three circuit breakers—military, energy, or financial—and contend the U.S. effectively lost due to inflation, energy constraints, and financial pressure rather than battlefield outcomes.

Returning guest Keidi Obi Awadu discusses food as medicine and also looks at how game theory can help us understand current events.