🎙 Interview with Ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr. — The Diplomat Who Witnessed History

In this conversation, we sit down with Ambassador Jack Matlock Jr., the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan and a key figure in Cold War diplomacy. With unmatched firsthand experience, Matlock reflects on pivotal moments that defined U.S.-Russia relations—from the Reagan-Gorbachev summits to the fall of the Soviet Union—and brings his sharp, unflinching analysis to today’s escalating global tensions.

🔍 Topics include:
Behind-the-scenes stories of nuclear negotiations and Cold War brinkmanship
Reagan’s real relationship with Gorbachev—myth vs. reality
How U.S. foreign policy helped ignite the Ukraine crisis
The distortion of diplomacy in today’s Washington
What it will take to avoid a new Cold War—or something worse

💬 A must-watch for anyone seeking clarity beyond the media fog, Matlock’s insights challenge mainstream narratives and offer a veteran diplomat’s perspective on how the world arrived at this dangerous juncture—and where we go next.

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My interview with IvanKatchanovski: https://youtu.be/fz-5nuPJ-I4

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:55 A collection of high functions
03:50 Trumps peace deal with Russia
09:15 Boris Johnson has blood on his hands
10:40 The role of the Saudis
17:05 NATO expansion was the cause of war
21:00 Not one inch
25:40 Can Zelensky survive peace
27:25 The dirty games on the Maidan
32:20 Ukraine vs the Cuba crisis
35:40 Trumps fallout with Zelensky 
44:35 Can Europe survive a war with Russia
49:30 The dubious case of Sweden
54:30 Leda, profile of an American Terrorist
58:55 Reflections on history

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🎯 You’re not being informed. You’re being *influenced*.**

This isn’t a theory. It’s not a guess. It’s a documented, decades-long campaign, —one that’s evolved from Cold War psyops to AI-powered manipulation in your social feed.

In this hard-hitting exposé, I pull back the curtain on what I call “The Western Playbook of Fake News,” an industrial-scale narrative machine operated not by rogue actors in basements, but by governments, PR firms, intelligence contractors, and military psyops units in Washington, London, Ottawa, and Tel Aviv.

Here is the link to the full Expose:
https://open.substack.com/pub/karat/p/mind-games?r=1fs9b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

🧠 **What you’ll learn:**
- How *real* disinformation originates from “democratic” institutions
- The shocking truth behind the 1990 "baby incubator" hoax—and why it still matters
- How military psyops teams operate inside major newsrooms
- Why AI isn’t just shaping your feed—it’s *predicting your behavior*
- The rise of *cognitive warfare*, and how it’s already targeting YOU

💥 If you think you’re too smart to be manipulated—**this video is for you.**

Forget Cambridge Analytica.
Forget Russian troll farms.
This is the story you were never meant to connect.

⚠️ **WARNING**: This investigation contains hard truths. No easy heroes. No partisan comfort zones. Just a raw look at how your thoughts are being shaped, in real-time, by invisible actors and engineered emotion.

🔍 **Based on real budgets. Real documents. Real operations.**

🧨 This isn’t about paranoia.  
It’s about *power*.  
And what you don’t know… is already shaping your worldview.


📌   Read the full exposé on Substack: “Mind Games: The Western Playbook of Fake News:”

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🔥What if dismantling Israeli apartheid isn't decided at the UN or in the US, but in the streets of Johannesburg?

South Africa’s celebrated transition from apartheid holds vital lessons and warnings for Palestine. Behind its iconic liberation lies a story of economic betrayal, elite capture, and unfinished justice—a narrative deeply relevant to today’s struggles.

In this exclusive interview, distinguished scholar-activist Prof. Patrick Bond explores what Palestine and global allies can genuinely learn from South Africa. He examines the effectiveness of global solidarity and Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), while critically assessing the ANC’s embrace of neoliberal frameworks that compromised true liberation.

With profound insights into power, protest, and political compromise, Prof. Bond offers not just historical analysis, but a strategic blueprint for resistance—against apartheid, fossil-fueled imperialism, and the illusion that genuine liberation can be negotiated within oppressive systems.

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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
03:30 Who is Patrick Bond
07:00 Nelson Mandela
15:00 Knowledge from social struggle
19:15 BDS South Africa vs Israel
33:10 Axis of Genocide
36:00 Oil, Oil, Oil
40:35 How to sanction Israel
46:30 Israeli warfare systems soon in your town
54:35 The double play of BRICS
01:01:40 A new financial system
01:05:40 Saudi schizophrenia 
01:08:40 Climate Catastrophe

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🔥 Inside Israel’s Explosive QatarGate Scandal | BibiLeaks Exposed

Is this the beginning of the end for Benjamin Netanyahu? This investigative deep-dive uncovers the explosive QatarGate scandal and the classified leaks rocking Israel’s inner circle—dubbed BibiLeaks. From secret lobbying to paid propaganda, we expose how political elites allegedly manipulated media narratives and foreign diplomacy under the guise of hostage negotiations.

🚨 Featuring revelations about:
Section I – The Qatar Deal  
Section II – The Fixers:
Section III – The Scandal Breaks  
Section IV – The Institutions Fight Back   
Section V – Netanyahu’s Power Grab
Final Section – This Isn’t Just About Israel  

👇 Another Billionaire entangled in a Scandal with Netanyahu:
https://youtu.be/fjy55BS6Y5k

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What if the war in Ukraine isn’t just being fought with missiles — but with headlines, framing, and narrative timing?

In this episode, I dissect two high-profile New York Times articles that function less like journalism and more like state-sanctioned narrative engineering.Published over a year apart — February 2024 and March 2025 — these pieces unveil covert U.S. and CIA operations in Ukraine. But the question isn’t what they reveal. It’s why now? And why like this?
This is not a story about Ukraine.This is a story about consent manufacturing, psychological operations, and how the media class sells war to an exhausted public under the banner of "truth."

🔍 In this breakdown:
How modern propaganda works through selective truth, not lies
What The New York Times chose to reveal — and what they carefully omitted
Why the timing of these articles is not accidental, but strategic
How public perception is managed to justify endless escalation.

🎧 Based on my ongoing work analyzing propaganda, public relations, and information warfare — on YouTube and Substack.

🧠 Don’t just read the news — dissect it.
👍 Like, share, and subscribe if you’re done being managed.
📰 Full source breakdown & article links available on my Substack: 
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New York Times articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

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🔥 What does it really mean to say Palestine was “invented”? In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking interview, a leading historian of the Middle East pulls back the curtain on how historical narratives have been weaponized—not just by states, but by entire ideologies.

We explore how the concept of “Palestine” was constructed, contested, and politicized—well before today’s headlines. But this isn’t just a history lesson. This conversation connects the dots between archival erasure, modern propaganda, and the unsettling real-world consequences playing out in Gaza right now.

From the notion of “Greater Israel” to the strategic use of ceasefires as military pause buttons, we dig into the deeper logics at play. And yes—we touch on the now-infamous leaked Israeli intelligence document that outlined potential plans for the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza—a plan reportedly conceived before October 7th.
Whether you’re new to this history or have followed it closely, this is a sobering but necessary conversation that challenges both mainstream narratives and ideological talking points.

🔗 Documents, links, sources, and bonus materials in the description below.

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https://palestinenexus.com

Link to article about the leaked documents:
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/11290

Ken O’Keefe: https://youtu.be/ersh3vipumc
Miriam Adelson: https://youtu.be/jv1d5Mh58h4

Who is really behind the TikTok Ban: https://youtu.be/a2Wkb-CJhsU

👇 Comment with your thoughts—and if you’ve read the leaked doc, what’s your reaction?
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
04:50 The invention of Palestine
11:35 Palestine Nexus
14:40 Hidden Documents
17:30 Tantura
21:55 Documenting the own war crimes
29:10 Israeli espionage and blackmail
35:45 The dirty deal of the cease fire
40:35 Trump Gaza
47:45 Netanyahu & Trump
51:10 Erasing critical voices with Tech
01:01:25 Sleepwalking into Fascism 
01:11:35 Israel is losing the information war
01:20:10 Israels hostage dilemma
01:27:25 Is there a silver lining

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🔥 In this thought provoking interview, former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson predicts that Putin will not accept the cease fire. He opens up about the new architecture of censorship, his banning from YouTube, and what really happened behind closed doors during his recent interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Larry doesn't mince words. From the Trump-brokered Ukraine ceasefire to the systematic silencing of dissent in the West, he lays out a chilling portrait of how public discourse is being shaped—not by facts, but by fear and suppression.

📌 Topics we cover:
Why Johnson was deplatformed after decades of public service
His meeting with Lavrov in Moscow and what was discussed
The rise of state-corporate censorship in the West
The Ukraine war, sanctions, and peace negotiations

🧠 Whether you agree with him or not, Larry forces us to ask hard questions about media control, free speech, and Western double standards in global conflicts.

👇 Sound off in the comments:Is dissent being erased in the name of safety? Can we still have open dialogue in 2025? What does this mean for the future of journalism?

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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
08:00 Who is Larry
16:30 Clear from the Start, Russia will win
18:15 The betrayal of the Minsk agreements
20:30 Trumps cease fire proposal
23:30 Europes incompetence
29:45 NATO expansion
33:30 Brezinski’s nightmare
35:00 Europes decline
45:40 The Maidan Coup
46:30 Self Determination
51:50 USAID
53:50 Europes coming war with Russia

#LarryCJohnson #CIA #Censorship #UkraineWar #LavrovInterview #FreeSpeech #TrumpCeasefire #AlternativeMedia #Geopolitics #YouTubeBan #SilencingVoices #RussiaUkraine

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Sweden didn’t join NATO. It was taken.

In this explosive interview with Professor Ola Tunander, we trace a four-decade operation to assassinate not just a Prime Minister—but a national identity.

🔍 From the fake submarine scare of the 1980s (spoiler: it was NATO, not the Soviets)...
🕵️ To the still-unsolved murder of Olof Palme—the last real obstacle to U.S. military integration...
💣 To NATO’s secret terror networks operating across Europe under the guise of "stay-behind armies"...
🧠 To the media, academics, and political elites who programmed Sweden to fear peace and beg for protection…

This video exposes how Sweden’s neutrality was not outdated—it was inconvenient.
And so, over 40 years, it was dismantled. Covertly. Methodically. Democratically... in appearance only.
No vote. No public debate. Just manipulation disguised as consensus.
This isn’t a documentary. It’s a post-mortem.
Watch until the end to understand how democracies die—not with bullets, but with narratives.

👇 Chapters and recommended links:

My Substack: https://karat.substack.com/ 
Ola’s Substadk: https://olatunander.substack.com

My interview with Dr. Daniele Ganser: https://youtu.be/DoTUFeKZB5A

Link the Reagan Deception:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjD1CZZmwHE

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
05:50 Who is Ola
06:45 How to fool your counterpart
12:15 The dubious case of Sweden
19:30 A former empire pushes for war
27:55 The coming war with Russia
34:25 Stay behind armies
51:20 Deception to create terror
57:15 Swedens U-boat hoax
59:40 Whiskey on the rocks
01:10:06 How to manipulate a population
01:14:25 Sweden joins NATO
01:24:25 Who killed Olov Palme

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🔥 Why Do You See Ukraine Clearly — But Gaza Through a Fog? 
In this expose we break down how propaganda, media bias, and geopolitical interests have shaped two radically different narratives around two devastating wars: Ukraine and Gaza.

🧠 Are you sure your outrage is your own?  
🔥 Why do millions see Russian occupation as a war crime but call Israeli occupation "self-defense"?  
👁️ Are you clear on one conflict and blind to the other?

This talk exposes the manufactured consent, split lucidity, and engineered outrage that keep people emotionally manipulated and intellectually inconsistent. From the Creel Commission to incubator baby lies to today's social media psy-ops, we follow the history, psychology, and strategy behind the perception war.

What You'll Learn:

- How propaganda uses emotion before evidence  
- Why fake stories about “killed babies” always return before war  
- How your empathy is being hijacked and politicized  
- Why “selective outrage” isn’t a glitch — it’s a feature  
- How to defend your mind from weaponized media

🔔 Subscribe for more unfiltered analysis of war narratives, Western hypocrisy, and the psychological mechanisms of state-backed storytelling.

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💬 Comments open. Disagree? Let's talk.

Links:
You are the Target, Twitter, Facebook & Google: https://youtu.be/9GUAI4KB6VQ

US Ambassador Chas Freeman: https://youtu.be/V6ZAcoglQFE
US Ambassador Jack Matlock: https://youtu.be/rpKPrsS6KBs
US Diplomate Hala Rharrit: https://youtu.be/44V4ZxFeJFI
US Diplomate Mike Casey: https://youtu.be/sDNYfE5_bs4
Head Associated Press Dan Perry: https://youtu.be/0ysG_y7M26I
Noam Chomsky 1: https://youtu.be/QplHaF4Ii_Y
Noam Chomsky 2: https://youtu.be/vNCcbrqM4ks

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
03:30 Manufactured Consent - the architecture of propaganda
08:15 Psychological Warfare - how bias becomes believe
17:20 The Media Matrix - who controls the frame
21:15 Case Study - Ukraine
26:25 Case Study - Israel/Palestine
30:40 What the US really gains - the utility of endless war
33:35 Tools for Media Self-Defnese

#Gaza #Ukraine #Propaganda #MediaBias #Israel #Russia #Geopolitics #ManufacturedConsent

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🔥 What’s REALLY Happening in Gaza? Journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen joins us for a raw, unfiltered discussion on the war in Gaza, Western media censorship, and the human cost of conflict. Reporting directly from the frontlines, Cohen has witnessed the destruction, spoken with survivors, and captured the realities that mainstream outlets often ignore.
In this interview, we dive deep into:

🔹 The untold stories of Gaza’s civilians – What Western audiences aren’t seeing
🔹 Israel’s latest offensive – What’s driving the war? Who’s benefiting?
🔹 Media manipulation – How censorship shapes public perception
🔹 US involvement in the conflict – Weapons, diplomacy, and political hypocrisy
🔹 What comes next? – Can Gaza survive, and is there a path to peace?

🚨 This is an interview you won’t find on mainstream news. Dan Cohen has risked his life to document the war firsthand—now he’s here to share what he’s seen.

📌 Follow Dan Cohen for more reports: https://Uncapturedmedia.com

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🚨 Links from the conversation:
Pogroms in Amsterdam https://youtu.be/iSX7_drVBPQ
Miriam https://youtu.be/jv1d5Mh58h4
Noam Chomsky https://youtu.be/vNCcbrqM4ks
BBC censored own documentary https://youtu.be/QUT0GDl3Szc
Gideon Levy https://youtu.be/huTCYl8tm3g
The Lancet Article:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

⚡ Join the conversation! What are your thoughts on the war in Gaza and media coverage? Drop a comment below. 👇

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
06:20 Who is Dan
11:10 Killing Gaza
19:15 Could the IDF collapse
26:15 how the BBC censored its own documentary
31:15 No other land controversy
37:20 The mirage of a two state solution
44:35 War crimes
52:00 Hezbollah how to defeat an idea

#Gaza #DanCohen #WarReporting #MediaCensorship #IsraelPalestine #Journalism #BreakingNews #MiddleEast

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