Breaking History Ep. 114: Airports, Cartels, and the Fight for Sovereignty

Matt Ehret and Ghost team up for a sprawling dive into geopolitics, history, and hidden power structures. They open with Ghost’s travel nightmare and use it as a springboard to expose how decades of neglect and privatization crippled regional airports, linking the failures back to post-9/11 policies and financial corruption. From there, the discussion widens into the theft of PROMIS software, Israel’s role as the “sixth eye” in Five Eyes intelligence, and the deep entanglement of organized crime syndicates like the Bronfmans with intelligence agencies. The hosts explore the rise of the Pilgrim Society, the Federal Reserve’s creation, and how monopolists like J.P. Morgan used U.S. Steel to reshape American industry. Tying it all to the present, they analyze Trump’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel, Nippon Steel’s losses, and how sovereign nations are reclaiming control from transnational cartels. With detours into Italy’s populist Matteo Salvini, Soros crackdowns, and Brad Zerbo’s Codex 9/11, this episode blends history and current events into a sharp critique of state capture and the global struggle for sovereignty.