🔥 History is never just about the past — it’s a battlefield for the present. In this interview, we explore how elites rewrite historical narratives to manufacture legitimacy, shape public memory, and consolidate political power. From the self-mythology of Ramesses II to the propaganda logic captured by George Orwell’s warning — “Who controls the past controls the future” — we examine how history becomes a strategic instrument rather than a neutral record.

We also look at the work of Guido Preparata, whose investigations into the First and Second World Wars challenge the “official story” and expose how finance, strategy, and elite interests were woven into narratives later presented as moral inevitability. What happens when memory itself is engineered? What truths disappear when history becomes a tool of governance?

If you’re interested in propaganda, historical mythmaking, power, and the politics of collective memory, this conversation will push you to question how much of the past we truly know — and how much of it has been curated for us.
👉 Watch the interview — and ask yourself: Who is writing history, and why?

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“Never Again” is repeated every year. Rarely is it tested.

In this interview, I speak with Mark Etkind, the son of a Holocaust survivor who endured the Łódź Ghetto and multiple concentration camps, including Buchenwald. Mark is also a leading voice among Holocaust survivors’ descendants who have spoken out against the destruction of Gaza — a position that has made him deeply controversial within parts of the Jewish community and the political mainstream.

Mark challenges the idea that Holocaust remembrance can be safely sealed off from the present. He argues that memory without consequence becomes ritual, and ritual without moral risk becomes cover. When institutions commemorate the Holocaust while remaining silent on Gaza, he sees not neutrality, but evasion.

We talk about why drawing historical parallels provokes such intense backlash, where the line between remembrance and politicisation is really drawn, and why “Never Again” loses meaning when it applies only to the past — or only to some victims, and not others.
This is not a comfortable conversation. It is not meant to be. But if Holocaust memory is to mean more than ceremony, then voices like Mark Etkind’s demand to be heard.

📌 Full context, background analysis, and related writing available on my Substack.📌 https://substack.com/@thomaskarat

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
05:50 Who is Mark
16:50 Integrating Survivors
34:30 Changing a World View
46:20 The Greater Israel
01:12:55 Jeremy Corbyn

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🔥 Oxford Academic and Iranian Scholar Yassamine Mather takes us deep into the political, historical, and personal terrain behind today’s Iran. And she does it with a clarity and honesty that’s almost disarming. T:his was one of the most surprising and revealing conversations I’ve recorded this year.

At one point she casually mentions volunteering for a covert mission in Iran—setting up an underground, anti-government radio station for the fedayeen in the mountains between Tehran and Kurdistan. She tells it as if it were nothing. It’s not nothing. It’s the kind of story that stops you in your tracks.

🎓 Based at the University of Oxford, Yassamine brings decades of political analysis, activism, and academic work into the room:
• the inner logic of the Iranian state• the failures and fractures of the opposition
• the West’s selective outrage• the left’s internal contradictions
• why revolutions rarely deliver what people expect
• and how exile shapes a political mind

And beyond the politics, this conversation shows you the person: sharp, thoughtful, funny, and carrying more history than she lets on.

We even walked through Oxford afterwards—her university access opening doors to places you almost never get to see. It adds something intimate to the whole encounter.

🔔 If you want more interviews like this, make sure to subscribe and hit the bell—though, given the shadow-banning on this channel, I can’t promise YouTube will notify you. Still, it helps.

📝 Also: I just released my analysis of Trump’s National Security Strategy (Nov 2025) on Substack.It’s… something you have to read to believe. A genuine eye-opener.→ https://karat.substack.com

Further Links:
US Ambassador Chas Freeman: https://youtu.be/SiMUmasmulE
Aarnon Milchan, Hollywood billionaire and Super Spy: https://youtu.be/fjy55BS6Y5k
Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/vNCcbrqM4ks
Inside Trump’s 2025 Blueprint for War with China: https://karat.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-2025-blueprint-for?r=1fs9b

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
03:20 Who is Yassamine Mather
10:00 Shah Reza Pahlavi
15:50 The consequences of taking out Mosaddegh
28:15 The Iraq Iran war
36:10 Jimmy Carters Hostage crisis
39:30 Regime change
41:55 Taking out Iran Proxies
49:45 Killing the negotiators
54:15 Is Irans nuclear project dead
01:09:45 What comes after the mullahs
01:18:45 Can BRICS protect Iran
01:32:55 Can Iran hurt Israel
01:39:20 A radio station in the mountains

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