Multipolarity & the Function of the Fake Binary
Catte Black
Updated from ‘The Function of the Fake Binary‘, May 16 2022
In his 1998 book The Common Good, Noam Chomsky describes the key role that managed disagreements play in modern politics…
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate…”
This remains true despite the increasingly obvious fact that Chomsky himself is part of that function.
What he’s describing is the “fake binary”. The imposition of the idea that Viewpoint A is the official approved narrative and that Viewpoint B is therefore its antithesis.
Points C through Z can therefore be ignored.
The fact hidden in plain sight being that both Viewpoint A and Viewpoint B actually reinforce the overarching narrative being sold and both lead to the same place.
It’s an incredibly effective management tool.
A fake binary allows you to not just manipulate the conformist Normies who automatically obey, but also those who consider themselves to be ‘anti-establishment’, contrarians or ‘rebels’.
How are fake binaries created? They are often initially introduced by the following methods…
– Using the legacy media to promote Viewpoint A as the “truth” but also widely publicize Viewpoint B while appearing to deny, refute or ridicule it.
– “Leaking” allegedly confidential documents that “expose” Viewpoint B as the “hidden truth”. This is usually done through the legacy media, though it’s more effective if you can seed it through the indy media sector.
– Creating entities that are tagged as “anti-establishment” but given a mass following, and feeding them Viewpoint B material.
Once Viewpoint B becomes a dominant “anti-establishment” view you can afford to sit back and allow the oppositional instinct in human nature to do your work for you, and reinforce the fake binary you created without the slightest awareness this is what is happening.
It becomes widely understood that the only solution to the obvious and real evils of Viewpoint A is Viewpoint B.
The fact Viewpoint B actually concedes all the same falsehoods contained in Viewpoint A remains unnoticed and anyone pointing this out tends to be attacked by both sides.
Fake binaries are a godsend to the opinion-managers.
May 2026
Can this analysis be applied to the current geopolitical situation?
Lets’s call Viewpoint A the broadly pro-US, pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine POV that is mainstream in the west.
And let’s call Viewpoint B the broadly “anti-imperialist”, pro-Russia, pro-Iran POV .
Mainstream western society is dominated by Viewpoint A of course. Most of the press are currently serving up traditional amounts of hate-focusing and often nonsensical propaganda in the venerable tradition of “the dastardly Hun bayoneting babies” type of thing.
Nothing unusual there.
But we do also see some examples that allow the other side of the argument some space, and not just from alternative or quasi alt sources. So, let’s look at that.
We have the Telegraph for example documenting Israel smashing solar panels in Lebanon. with a subhead that reads
destruction of the village, Debel, follows criticism that ethical standards in the IDF have plummeted
Ironic for anyone who’s been following the career of the ethically challenged IDF for any amount of time, that smashing solar panels marks a new low, when smashing children’s heads has been de rigeur for them for some time, but if you’ve been more or less silent on Israel’s appalling crimes for several decades and then start talking about them, you have to find some spurious reason – eg that the IDF’s conduct has only recently become a cause for concern, due to “plummeting” standards..
The FT just six days ago, ran the headline “Why America is Falling out of Love with Israel“, and their subhead reads pretty damningly…
Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu
Pretty reasonable under the circumstances we have to say, but still counter to the long-held establishment line that Israel was all but untouchable.
The BBC, Sky News, CNN, Guardian, Independent and PBS can also be added to the list of legacy outlets giving Israel’s crimes mainstream airtime.
Last month the BBC told its audience
Israeli strikes kill eight Palestinians in Gaza, first responders say. One strike killed three children and two adults near a mosque in the northern town
Just yesterday (May 9) PBS reported
Israeli drone strikes kill 4 near Beirut as southern airstrikes kill at least 13
CNN recently ran this headline
Lebanese PM accuses Israel of war crimes after strike kills journalist
And last month it aired this TV segment – claiming “Israel is losing US support – even among Republicans”
It would be wrong to say the media are flipping the narrative on Israel at this point – they’re not . But they do seem to be making sure Israel’s insane levels of aggression and violence are reaching sections of society that have been largely shielded from them in the past. And they do seem willing to feed both sides of the divide on this subject.
The US and its hegemony is also getting some unusual levels of critical attention from unlikely sources.
Just seven days ago (May 3) The New York Times published an opinion piece headlined
America Is Officially an Empire in Decline
adding in its first sentence
The American-Israeli attack on Iran was more than a bad idea; it has turned into a watershed in the decline of the American empire.
Considering that not so long ago the NYT would have refused to acknowledge there even was an American empire, to be not only accepting this reality but publishing claims that said empire is “in decline” is speedy and noteworthy progress.
In the same vein, Newsweek April 22 ran an opinion piece by Thomas G Moukawsher headlined
Has the US Become the Bad Guy?
And going on to say
Being bad may be a good diversion from other problems, but it won’t make us safer, and it must never make us prouder.
We can’t in all conscience disagree with that sentiment, and of course the answer to the previously posed question is “yes, for some time, did you only just notice?”, but even so we must note what might be an emerging theme among the US intelligentsia.
The Nation in the person of Aaron Regunberg hit the same talking point in March titled
What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain?
Claiming
Under Trump, the US is unequivocally a force for evil in the world. It can seem morally intolerable to embrace happiness as our government massacres children
Again as if this is a new phenomenon and not a continuum of villainous bloodshed spanning decades.
Regunberg also adds this gem
Trump’s nihilistic war on Iran is not the first disaster that’s made me think the United States might be a baddie. My first time cursing our government was when George W. Bush officially killed the Kyoto climate treaty.
Yup it’s that lack of action on climate change that stood out for me too. I mean illegal war, regime change and murdered kids are all very well, but failing to enact meaningless legislation for a non-existent crisis – that is low.
January this year The Hill also opined
The American empire has entered its final act
Including this interesting para (my emphasis)
America is not falling tomorrow. It is settling into managed decline. Each generation inherits a narrower set of possibilities. Boomers dreamed big. Gen X sought security. Millennials adjusted to constraint. Gen Z dreams of not becoming homeless.
“Managed decline”? That looks like a bit of narrative insertion to me. One of those soft sells we see when a new reality is being eased into place. A kind of shrug of acceptance and normalisation. America is “in decline” now. Don’t ask why or how, it just is and we’ll all have to get used to it – “manage” it while accepting the inevitable.
January again The Indy reported Chris Hayes wondering…
if the US is now the ‘bad guy’ as it acts like an ‘Axis’ nation
So, no denying it is slightly trendy in certain circles to a) critique Israel and b) declaim the US empire to be on the way out. But why?
I will be told all the above is because it’s becoming increasingly difficult for anyone rational to justify the insane excesses committed by the US and Israel, not to mention the even more insane ranting of Trump and Netanyahu. But while in every basic sense this is true, the mainstream media isn’t bound by such considerations – unless it wants to be.
Remember the grotesque way the Odessa Massacre of 2014 was put across by pro-western media? Just one example of too many where morality was easily sidelined as inconvenient. These people have no problem with lying and defaming the dead, ignoring mass murder, or distorting reality to make victims into perpetrators. If they wanted to continue apologising for Israeli and US excesses they simply would.
This stuff is there because it serves a purpose, not because it’s so manifestly true it can’t be ignored. Literally NOTHING is that true for the agenda-creators and their stenographers.
I will also be told it’s simply Dem commentators taking shots at a GOP president in the grand old tradition, and God knows not without cause. Trump has after all given them copious ammo, why wouldn’t they use it?
But I think there might be more going on than that. The curious question of why exactly Trump has been permitted, or encouraged by his handlers (yes, he has handlers, they all have handlers) to make such a monstrous fool of himself is one it might be interesting to contemplate.
Remember when, just about a decade ago any POTUS doing and saying the things this man says and does would have seemed cartoonishly impossible?
You’ll say “ah, well Trump changed all that”. Yes, I guess he did, didn’t he. But why was he permitted to? What happened to the careful curation and hyper-management that kept past presidents from ever revealing how drunk, drugged, stupid or criminally malign they were?
Did the system forget how to manage itself? Or is Trump’s raving disintegration of his and his office’s dignity and credibility something of a choice made by someone somewhere?
Let’s think about the fake (or curated) binary again.
Version A is the old song of American exceptionalism which has been the mainstream narrative for decades and is still being sold to us as such – but now with caveats and discordancies. The melody isn’t as true any more, and the voices are thinner. Less effort seems to be made to hide the decay behind the facade.
And we’re increasingly being gently invited to reject it. That voice isn’t strident yet, but it’s there, where it wasn’t not so long before.
Meanwhile Version B – is – what? A “multipolar” world, free of the empire?
Or the empire in continuum, freed from America’s sins? An ancient power structure reclothing itself for the hundredth time as something new and hoping to fool us all once again?
Remember it’s the unquestioned assumptions held true but BOTH sides that offer us insight into the real agenda.
So, what are they?
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Hey. What happened to my informative George Bernard Shaw comment?
I suppose the unjustifiable assumption for Americans is that America’s downfall is unavoidable: That there’s no way we can return to a country that’s moral geopolitically, free internally, and full of successful small and mid-size industry.
No, no the whole weight of history tells us that a successful and Good country as America once was MUST become dictatorial (hegemonic) and then fail economically and ethically.
It’s just a law of nature & there’s nothing we can do to return to freedom and prosperity at home. We mustn’t look for the actual, specific actions taken by actual specific people that are destroying our land.
More multi-polar.
Putin’s 4 year passivity and “talking it over” with our western partners has finally obtained result. Russia is strategic defeated with their back against the wall.
New invented western missiles giving Ukraine are hitting 1400 km inside Russia and destroy key Russian military factories, while Russia is still selling cheap gas to Europe to discount prices though Ukraine.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/scott-ritter-moscow-faces-strategic
Putin succeeded to change a sure and easy winner to a disaster for himself and the Russian people by his pussy footing and lapdog attitude to west.
Tens of thousands of young Russian men sacrificed unnecessary because Kremlin’s pussy footing and lapdog attitude.
Ukraine’s version of Plum Island – this was one of the named viruses in the Ukrainian biolabs ( Crimean-Congo fever) that Tulsi Gabbard tried desperately to hide and deny their existence.
Watch the little critters chase down a meal, and the meal is us.
Brian McDonald (@BrianMcDonaldIE): “People in southern Russia are reporting a surge in unusually aggressive Hyalomma ticks, which reportedly actively chase hosts instead of simply waiting in grass like ordinary forest ticks. Russian media say the large ticks have become particularly active across regions including Rostov, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Astrakhan and Kalmykia. The main concern is that Hyalomma ticks can carry Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a potentially deadly disease with a high fatality rate if untreated. Some reports also claim the ticks are far less responsive to standard repellents than ordinary species.” | nitter.poast.org
The current geopolitical landscape is based on Orwell’s *1984*, with major blocs pretending to be “enemies” of one another in order to control, confuse, intimidate, and enslave the populace, forcing submission to a global system of technological communism—all of this concealed behind a facade of false multipolarity.
Perhaps more like feudalism than communism– and notably w a reduced population. Also, y’know, if we’re eating bugs, etc while “rulers” are eating real food one can expect an actual change in species eating poor food- reduced lifespan, submissiveness, infertility.
In fact, if you look for it we’re already seeing those changes due to the degradation of our food and environmental toxins, vaxxes, etc.
Please note that these measures are directed exclusively at Western nations—this is not happening in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. In fact, the region with the fastest population growth is Africa. Do you remember all the nonsense spouted by those bogus conspiracy theorists years ago, claiming that Gates was promoting vaccines in Africa to reduce the population? It was all fake news—in reality, they were deliberately boosting populations in the Third World. You ask why? So that the ruling class could orchestrate their mass migration into the West.
Zard, I’ve some personal problems right now taking up too much time to permit me to really study & concentrate on these matters right now– but I think this link is in line w your thesis and finds an add’l use for increased population areas. Regards.
The same should apply for South America, both continents should have a seat on the UNSC, in a permanent fashion.
“Africa can no longer be excluded from permanent representation on the UN Security Council (UNSC), African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has said.
Speaking at a ministerial meeting on UNSC reform on the sidelines of the Africa-France Summit in Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday, Youssouf said the continent’s demand is not a request for special treatment but a response to a long-standing imbalance in global governance.
“Africa is not asking for a favor; Africa is demanding the correction of a historical injustice,” he said, according to an AU statement. He added that the Security Council’s “credibility and legitimacy” depend on whether it reflects the realities of the present world rather than “the geopolitical order of 1945.” “
You have been warned.
“Dr. Rhonda Patrick drops an eye-opening fact about thermal receipts.
They’re coated with BPA—a chemical that reacts to heat for inkless printing, but it’s also an endocrine disruptor that easily absorbs through skin. Studies show frequent handling is linked to hormonal changes, like lower testosterone.
She gives simple tips that anyone in retail, restaurants, or anywhere with constant receipt contact can use to cut unnecessary exposure.”
healthbot (@thehealthb0t) | nitter.poast.org
Its happening all over Europe and North America and our governments are allowing it.
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There are only jews and the promised land who are real Scot. The rest is goyim.
You better learn it now than later Scot.
There are 25-50 goyim for every Jew. Don’t think the Jews will survive an existential war…..
Lets’s call Viewpoint A the broadly pro-US, pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine POV that is mainstream in the west.
And let’s call Viewpoint B the broadly “anti-imperialist”, pro-Russia, pro-Iran POV.
viewpoint C would call the whole thing fake.
“Remember it’s the unquestioned assumptions held true but BOTH sides that offer us insight into the real agenda. So, what are they?”
No problem: The deliberate decline of the “US empire” is meant to give way to the long-planned “New Atlantis”, as Francis Bacon described it: The “Great American Technate” that shall rise like a “Phoenix” from the ashes of the old system.
Trump is, as Dr. Jacob Nordangard so eloquently described him, the elite’s “Wreck-it-Ralph”, the dialectically useful elefant in the global porcellain store, who is supposed to shake up the existing system of globalism so badly that the only (dialectic) solution will be … well, more “international cooperation”, by which the globalists mean: More power in our hands to shape global policies.
Nordangard writes,
“According to WEF adviser and historian Yuval Harari, the election of Donald Trump will inevitably accelerate the dismantling of the old system. Trump becomes the face of the global crisis. This is as per design.”
Hell yes it is.
But what exactly will replace the “old system”? The “old empire”? A new empire, that’s for sure. But it is NOT the kind of empire you would expect it to be, according to common notions about empire.
It will be an empire without face, without rulers to publicly blame, without visible leaders: It will be, like James Corbett put it, an “Algocracy” – rule by algorithms. It will be ruled by code. Because humans – as Donald Trump has shown us so deliberately obvious – are no longer reliable as rulers. Humans are too flawed, you know. Oh, and the old empires, too. Believe me, AI will be much safer and without human prejudices …
A wee bit of good news.
“Following an attempt by Mr Justice Johnson to prosecute Palestine Action barrister for “contempt of court” after his closing speech mentioned the legal principle known as:
“jury Equity”, Rajiv Menon has won his appeal”
Donations to politicians and political parties should be made illegal, obviously the donators want something in return for their money.
“The total reported donations by Christopher Harborne (Harbourne) to UK parties and individuals amount to approximately £28.8–29 million.
Having given this money to Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, the Tory Party, and Brexit Party/Reform UK, is now extremely likely to be the largest single individual donor to UK political parties/politicians in UK post-war history (certainly in the Electoral Commission era, from 2001 onwards when decent quality recording of donations started), surpassing lifetime totals by figures such as Lord David Sainsbury (around £25–27 million across Labour and Lib Dems) and Frank Hester (over £20 million to the Conservatives).”
Sainsbury the shop?
Excellent article. OffG is virtually the only alternative place to find stories like this that see the wood and not just the trees. Perhaps Corbett rises to that level at his best.
The evidence here is overwhelming. With all these obvious signs of a switch coming intended to turn away from the US and Israel, why are so few independent journalists seeing it?
The Light paper is on it too, and it’s a printed newspaper.
WAR NEWS in case you’ve not heard
Yesterday Iran: “Starting today, our restraint has come to an end. Any attack on our vessels will be met with a heavy and decisive Iranian response against US ships and bases.
Time is working against the Americans. It is in their interest not to act foolishly and sink deeper into the quagmire they have entered.
The best course is to surrender and make concessions. You must get used to the new regional order.”
–Spokesperson for Iran’s parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security
Committee, Ebrahim Rezaei
Khameini made a similar statement.
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Boycott Against Israel
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, The Netherlands and Iceland will not air this week’s Eurovision Song contest due to the decision to allow Israel to participate.
Kinda reinforces the point the article makes – I mean since when has the EU boycotted Israel over anything?
38 states have adopted laws, executive orders, or resolutions designed to discourage boycotts against Israel. Separately, the U.S. Congress has considered anti-boycott legislation in reaction to the BDS movement. The Senate passed S.1, which contained anti-boycott provisions, on January 28, 2019, by a vote of 74-19. The House passed a resolution condemning the boycott of Israel on July 24, 2019, by a vote of 398-17. No federal law was adopted.
In May 2023,Sen Marco Rubio & others reintroduced it to Congress.
“Bushisms” refer to the infamous malapropisms, spoonerisms, and accidental comedic statements made by former U.S. President George W. Bush during his time in office (2001–2009). These verbal blunders, often stemming from off-the-cuff remarks, earned him a reputation for being gaffe-prone.
Famous “Bushisms”
George W. Bush botches a classic aphorism, saying, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
One of my favorites.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
He was always high– as well as being stupid. Tranquillizers I think.
President Shrub: the lesser Bush.
Proof, that it’s not what you know, but who.
There was a maid who worked for one of the Bushes in their private home; she was killed in the driveway when her own car ran over her. Don’t know why that affected me so much; I couldn’t help but think that she’d overheard something. I’ve not the least fragment of evidence of course. Yes, who you know can be life-altering.
Employees for them lot have short shelf life,
Even before rabid oligarchy, every empire has ended the same way. A fish begins rotting from the head.
I wonder whether the Trump operation is to help people decide never to go “off piste” ever again: vote for one of the “normal” candidates next time, “Hey, remember what happened last time when we voted for (what we thought was) change ?
Or to usher in a new “democracy” where certain candidates or certain votes can be discounted in case that brings in another “Trump” or even “Hitler” !. Would kinda fit nicely with the abolition of trial by jury; you can’t trust the public with such important decisions.
President Bush will be remembered for many things.
A lot of this writing is the way it is–as if suddenly newly discovering out of the blue that the US is bad–because the writers are children. They are too young to remember Vietnam. And heaven forfend they should know history. Hell, they are too young to remember Yugoslavia. That’s why the oldest thing they can remember is Kyoto. Even that happened when they were in diapers. I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who opined that the world’s problems can never be really addressed until we get some real longevity going, because only very old Methusalehs are the only people who can remember back to the last stupid vile insane unconscionable enormity. They are the only ones who can go, “Oh, no. Not this one again. They pulled that in 1990.”
The important function of politial propaganda is to modify the past in our minds. We can see that it is quite successful.
GB Shaw was a eugenicist, among those who wanted to decide who would live or die.
Nah, they’re just paid stenographers hitting the talking points they know will get them a fat paycheck
Up thru the 50’s local newspapers and radio informed the public with infinite variants on news and opinion. TV in the 50’s and 60’s brought news and opinion into centralized management of 4 networks. Free trade capitalist privatization of me-me-me-Reaganomics by both Parties deregulated or plain ignored anti-trust law. Meanwhile entering the US into a neo laissez-faire epoch that is till playing out toward the main objective: a capitalist privatized public assets COMPANY STORE. A giant 1% cartel monopoly collective of elites.
On the way getting to this goal, the internet, for anyone willing to research, has documented their lying, corrupt and evil activity and revealed the nature of their plans. This has made their objectives ever harder to hide, and their interim adjustments to their deeply stupid cartel member acts are getting extremely desperate and transparent. This is their agenda, imo, and it is falling apart.
They have met their match and it is themselves. Their tendency towards elaborate fantasy futures driven through new technologies has been fed and fueled by accessing unlimited government-Bankster money funnels, sucking the life out of the bottom 90%. The US “middle class” in this K-shaped economy is now the top 15% beneath the top 5%, seeping upwards and out of reach day by day.
All previous methods of resuscitating an economic Vampire’s victim carcass from bankruptcy and collapse: military industrial complex spending, war, terror-mongering, crime & “public safety”, emergency subsidy to “crisis” events, and private central bank jimmy jacking… can no longer provide lift. Debt, blown up to Mt Everest proportions, is now their master. Every move sends them further into an inescapable debt black hole. Doom loops coming and AI will accelerate the doom. Hold onto your self sufficiency and deny them everything they demand. Total non-compliance.
Perhaps the biggest limits put on the range of our debates, and “we” do it to ourselves, is regarding our political systems, which are the main instrument by which we’re controlled. In fact, our collective inability to seriously debate any solutions to bringing down the power is primarily self inflicted. We CAN still refuse, but we don’t and won’t.
Hat tip to miriaf
Thanks for the thought provoking articles OffG, strange times indeed.
Faceless digital technology is becoming the new worldwide, interoperable, control system.
The switchover is intentionally speeding up now, that’s what we’re noticing & feeling.
As Escapekey notes in Mistaken for Reality:
“A governance system is being built across every major international institution. Its parts are public, recorded, and nothing special by themselves. Together, they form a system that processes populations through one set of rules — the conditions that must be met before a transaction, credential, or policy can go ahead”.
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/mistaken-for-reality
The PTB via their bought and paid for media have always tried to narrow the Overton Window on public opinion of certain matters – occasionally they pen a few negative articles about Israel, the US etc, to make themselves appear balanced to the public – they even perform Limited Hangouts to take the heat away from a certain parts of topics and discussion, such as with the Epstein Files, which has not seen one prosecution to date.
The NED usually buys a radio station in a targeted country floods it with NGO’s and funds and embraces any anti-government movements – prior to the overthrowing of a government – anti-government rhetoric is spewed out daily, and false flag event can occur in the targeted country – to be then blamed on the current administration, of course that tactic isn’t binary fake, but its effective.
Sorry, not buying that excuse. It’s obvious from just scanning the sample of headlines in the article that more is going on than what you describe. The narrative is changing, America is going into some type of planned (“managed”) collapse and the rats are jumping ship. Israel is going down too.
Multipolarity is the new name for the empire I guess. Which will have an east and west segment, both following the same agenda and having forever wars to keep the populations distracted.
I didn’t type any excuses – so I fail to see which part you are not buying please elaborate.
As for Israel and the US they are a long way from a collapse in the term you sense – I do of course agree with your East, West hegemony – though for now I don’t think China is looking for forever wars, its still building it allies and trade routes.
Yep, it seems like the shift of empire is from the conquerors to the businessmen.
That’s why they’re making politics look stupid everywhere like the UK tobacco ban and arresting people for retweeting stuff.
They want them to look bad to usher in a new type of governance. I used to be worried about this but looking at history it’s improved but we still got nostalgia cultists thinking like the past was better/more free….
Or more, to keep the MIC occupied so they dont get upset by lack of dollares.
Think about a $3 trillion death cult industry. You dont mess around a thing like that easily.
If you dismiss them, they will turn into mercenaries or gangs.
Eric, I think you’re right that BOTH US & Israel are planned to collapse downward. Possible the US will become Fortress N. America & take over Greenland & Cuba &at least some of S. America.
It may be that Israel has already fulfilled it’s purpose of MidEast instability during a certain period, and at any rate has become too expensive to maintain in the face of US retracting to Fortress N. America.
btw, Venezuela was a very important ally to Cuba; probably that’s changed since the US is confiscating their oil.
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It wd appear there’s still a military/patriotic aggressive faction pushing to maintain US hegemony, but that it’s losing to a more pragmatic/financial faction. Maybe??
Neocons vs neoliberals I guess. Or not.
Argentina, Ukraine and Cyprus are already pencilled in as new Zionist homelands.
The Illuminati are shifting their ‘Overton window’ once again.
Tell us more, Seamus. Shifting it to include what?
the unquestioned assumptions held true by BOTH sides…( that offer us insight into the real agenda)
So, what are they?
The management part as inevitable and necessary I guess.
Really I have low tolerance for the gang who have been BSing about this being (some party of???) the era of the end of the USA Empire. It was always playing the good cop or unintended consequences to the bad cop of regime war against ordinary people.
It’s 2026 we know the regime intends to substantially injury and harm as many people for as long as possible, just say so.
People get used to news. So each iteration of demonization or sanctification has to be stronger. President Reagan threatened a nuclear first strike on Russia. Nowadays that would earn only jawns, so now we have Israeli’s bombing innocent children.
You write that we can know what’s true by seeing things that are in both binaries. I don’t agree that you can learn the truth by studying lies. All you can say is that those who use the “fake binary” propaganda tool have goals that are in both binaries.
I didn’t get that from the piece at all. I got that it’s the unquestioned assumptions common to both sides that tell us their real agenda. In fact the assumptions common to both sides will be the biggest lies.
So what is the answer to Catte’s question: So, what are they?
I am finding Simon Dixon’s theories interesting and plausible. Makes the most sense, to me, the geopolitical landscape, in particular the false binary’s, because his explanations point the finger at financial, military and techno involvement, coercion, planning, controlling. With “leaders” such as Trump and Netanyahu acting as middle management. They are not calling the shots, they are following directions.
It goes back to the famous Ned Beatty monologue in “Network” – to which, basically, there is no left and right, there is Boeing, Raytheon, Northrup Gruman, Blackrock, Haliburton, et al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0AAed0PJI
The first youtube link (yeoaaedopji) is Simon Dixon.
That’s not exactly unique to Simon Dixon though is it. OG and Iain Davis and that technocracy guru whose name I don’t recall have been saying the same thing since at least 2020 so far as I remember.
Yes, they do cover the same.
Not unique to Dixon, I just think Dixon is more expansive, detailed and specific. I think he comes at it from a different angle and experience than, perhaps, Iain Davis.
I like both Davis and Dixon. And, of course, OG.
You are both forgetting what Erik Nielsen have said to you since Ruder King was Knight. You like both Davis, Dickson, and off course OG and Erik Nielsen.
I don’t understand Dixon. He is for geniuses like you all. All I can get is “both sides are the same–except that they are fighting–and buy bitcoin.”
The rest seems nothing but smoke and mirrors to me.
Unfortunately Simon Dixon has not a professorial bone in his body. He is difficult to fully understand; it does help to turn the speed down. You can learn a lot from him, but you really DO have to concentrate; I wish his videos were available in print.
I have been noticing the shift in tone about Israel and America in the media lately. It makes sense we’re being eased in to accepting America is the bad guy and that good guys are going to beat them and set up a new multipolar world! Meanwhile the empire just moves house!
This looks like a Binary Fake to me.
“High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas says the bloc is ready to approve sanctions against Israeli settlers in the occupied territories.
The EU is poised to approve sanctions against violent Israeli settlers, after Hungary’s new government signaled it would no longer block the measure, Kallas said on Monday ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.”
Fresh from claiming someone wants a lower pension, the ipaper now fantasises that people want their children to be doing national service:
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/eldest-started-university-rather-did-national-service-4404645
Of course, university or national service is another one of those fake binaries.
Not everybody can be Yale and Harvard professors. Someone has to work in the cotton fields. Therefore the answer to you socialists, coloured, gays and doos are No.
Brits, like the rest of us, are entitled to their opinions, but who’s shaping those opinions:
https://scheerpost.com/2026/05/10/covert-nato-initiative-turns-film-into-anti-russia-battleground/
I am also so outraged that I consider leaving the US in favour of Europe! I want everybody in Washington and US to know that I am on the red line and on the crossroad on leaving!
This is what America has done to my feelings up to date!
https://www.pbs.org/video/exclusive-how-fascism-works-author-jason-stanley-plans-to-leave-the-us-eimxcb/
Excellent article. Not only are the current conflicts convenient stalking horses for the impoverishment agenda, they are also perfect examples of the Fake Binary Methodology.
In this instance, Viewpoint A is being prepped to lose its status as the mainstream “truth” and Viewpoint B is being prepped to take its place, and for exactly the reasons you state Catte, “the empire in continuum, freed from America’s sins”.
aUStralia’s talking tough on the new Black Plague:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/australian-repatriation-flight-hantavirus-cruise-ship/106665202
If these passengers would only take their vaccine jabs then we would all be safe.
I refer to my government that they are only doing it for the best of our society and our Constitution!
Ref:”I want to stress that our primary responsibility as a government, obviously, is to keep our community safe and healthy,” Mr Butler said.
Each generation inherits a narrower set of possibilities
Until c. 2010, they kept up the pretence that the Empire was “the greatest” with difficulty. It is hard to maintain hope when you live in a cardboard box or shanty, surrounded by filth, the insane and criminals. The elderly are a threat to the hoax and plunder, simply because of their memories.
Astute observations mgeo.
They don’t really care about any of that, because They keep Themselves well insulated from it, and They rarely, if ever, suffer any meaningful consequences for what They do. Indeed, They are indifferent to it at best, and relish it at worst; creating misery is a sort of spiritual food for Them.
Who are They?
They am that they am.
And if you get the reference, you’ll get who they am.
The common assumption by most observers is that the administration’s actions were an ERROR, that the loss of US bases, the reduction of ordinance and materiel, the closing of the Strait, the loss of even the appearance of competence by the President beginning w Biden, the total recent fiscal irresponsibility– that all of these and more are “errors.”
It’s the position of Simon Dixon and a few others that all of this is on purpose– the result of a negotiation occurring over the past 5 years with the agreed-upon results enacted by the war. That is, that you cannot simply tell the population that certain very powerful financial cartels and billionaires w a bit of input by China & US have decided upon a changed Realpolitic. So the change that they’ve decided upon is being enacted by a war w predictable outcome.
I do find it difficult to believe that ALL the downfall of America is just innocent error by those in charge. I especially find it difficult to believe that the famine which is being created is anything other than purposeful.
And yet you help to promote this mainstream view by posting drainstream media articles or quoting them as if they were factual! Why?
I don’t see a single link in her post.
not in this one but she does post a ton of mainstream bullshit, TDS stuff, media stories about the “war”, adding her own commentary like “Iran is attacking X” or “Israel is bombing Y”, or reporting on Trump’s ravings as if he’s actually the one making the decisions.Just credulous stuff swallowing 90% of the official garbage.
But then she’ll suddenly flip and post another bloody video by Simon Dixon even though he contradicts most of the rest of her output.🙃
I don’t know if she’s just a bit dotty or a quite subtle bot trying to make sure the mainstream narrative is being dished out regularly in the comments.
There ARE sites that report factually on the war; obviously they’re not mainstream, and I do repeat them as a matter of news. If you’re not interested don’t read them.
Nobody could make anything Trump says sound credible. If I quote him it’s merely to show how opposed to reality is the propaganda that he’s spewing. Don’t be so suspicious, silly: Anyone on this site who quotes Trump is not doing it to lend his views support.
PS I don’t know what “TDS stuff” is.
I don’t quote mainstream “media”; it’s just propaganda.
If you think something I quote is incorrect, mention it specifically. Otherwise you’re just bitching.
…and the agenda rolls on.
If The Most Moral Army In The World’s pong becomes Too Much, Trump
will have the rationale for a :Retreat With Honour”… Trump will be able
to appear to wash his hands of the matter, the Genocide will disappear
from mainstream media attention, and the US will continue to supply all
the bombs and bullets necessary to “Finish The Job”.
The “20 Point Gaza Peace Plan” acted as the perfect circuit breaker. It
provided the mainstream media with a reason to reduce coverage of the
carnage, and The Most Moral Army In The World had a freer hand to get
on with Finishing The Job…
That “explanation” ignores the question of why they are covering the carnage at all. From the article –
“These people have no problem with lying and defaming the dead, ignoring mass murder, or distorting reality to make victims into perpetrators. If they wanted to continue apologising for Israeli and US excesses they simply would.”
So, why have they decided to stop completely ignoring the genocide and US complicity in it?
Why have They started to create a pong ? Well if my speculative
suggestion is not an explanation, Why Not Ask Grok ? (Grok Knows – Everything)…
Not wanting to be a dick, but your speculative suggestion doesn’t offer any explanation of why Israel is suddenly not being protected as much.
It’s hard to get round the fact the controlled media wouldn’t publish anything about this subject if they didn’t want people to know about it. So, they now want people to know about it where before they didn’t. Question being, why?
And that was what finally made you a big dick. Follow the money.
Media is depending of money, our (the public’s) money and The Doos usury money.
If Israel’s reputation among ‘we the people’ lies in the toilet, media would make themselves unpopular and ‘sovjet propaganda like’ in the eyes of the public.
In order to appear at least a little serious they have to also be outraged, raise a finger, and pretend and insinuate that they also off course think Israel is too much in some areas. Fixed.
I don’t usually read your comments since deciding you are either mentally abnormal or a troll, but this is rubbish. The media doesn’t follow public opinion it creates public opinion because the majority get their information from their and nowhere else. Even if some minority outlets contradict them they just ignore it and carry on with their message, because they know only a minority will ever read or watch anything but mainstream stuff.
Israel has been committing genocide for at least fifty years at this point, and countless people have publicised the fact, while the media simply ignored 9/10s of it. If now they are changing their story it’s absolutely not because they feel pressured by public opinion. Like the article says, it’s because changing the story suits their agenda.
I wonder if the plan for Israel is a long game, and it’s current inhabitants are destined to be temporary residents. If the next imperialist throne is to be Pax Judaica, those who were enticed to settle there and parade as terrorists might soon be surplus to requirements.
They’re moving back to their real homeland, the Ukraine.
And Patagonia as a backstop.
I found this on the intranets:
“We’ve really entered the ‘limited hangout’ stage of Zionism. There is a recognition that ‘Israel’, and thus ‘Greater Israel’, is probably lost. The focus is now on Pax Judaica, using Jewish dominance over data and AI (although AI is fundamentally another Jewish fraud), finance and media (including social media) to enslave the goyim around the West (with the assistance of the evil pervert leadership class in all Western countries), with Jews taking over enclaves for homelands in multiple weak countries (Argentina, Ukraine, Cyprus, Greece, etc.)”
You are right in the substance. MSM wouldnt dare to change their narrative if it was not dictated from TPB.
I just see a variation ups and downs in the MSM during the period you talk about. You know the Leftists (Sanders and Co) have always been on the Palestinians side and ‘outraged’ a.s.o. Thus this side were covered too in MSM.
But, you are right, my regrets.
Lindisfarne, it’s a longshot, but maybe TPTB are prepping for a time not too far distant when they’ll have to stop Israel in order to get Iran to open the Strait. Financial repercussions are not fully known, but there may come a time not too distant when they will need to at least CONTROL Israel.
Also, between the Israel/Lebanon war & the predominantlyUS/Iranian war, we’re rather distracted from the Ukraine/Russia war, which may suit them.
Also, anything for distraction from US monetary crisis & the maturing surveillance/control apparatus.
Maybe you are. Maybe the reason is that they cannot protect them as much anymore. Simply cannot.
Thank you for a thought-making read! I read you on Substack and followed a link.
A is pro-American. B is pro-Russian. C to Z is Israel and the multibillionaire Jews who own it own America and Russia lock stock and barrel.
except Israel is also being exposed in the media in a new way as the article shows very clearly
It’s a limited hangout, be sympathetic to public opinion to keep them reading your newspaper, but in a very constrained way
Yeah, right. When are they going to release the Treasury-Epstein records?
Mind Fuck theater on a grandscale !…thank You great article !
‘Spy vs Spy’ from Mad magazine kinda sums it up:
Two insanely demented ‘enemies’ at each other’s throats while the ship goes down and the enemies wealth grows exponentially.
The two main spies are always legitimately trying to do one another in, but there’s also a third actor at play, “Grey Spy.”
Thanks Pilgrim, I wasn’t aware of Grey Spy. Haven’t read Mad for a few years.
Who, or what do you surmise Grey Spy represents?
Could be the Chinese, the Chosen, or even those of us who are biding our time waiting for the Empire(s) of War Greed and Hypocrisy to implode.
I don’t know who she represents. At least so far as I know,the Black and White Spies were never definitively associated with any country or ideology in particular, but were just stand-ins for the Cold War principals; which one was which was never really brought out, and maybe didn’t matter anyway.
Grey Spy might just be some sort of device to insert a little extra spice into the cartoons. If one wanted to speculate further, she could be Mother Nature, The Law of Unintended Consequences, or simply a Femme Fatale. Or something else entirely.
The artist’s prerogative?
the experts of fake binary, OG
“Can this analysis be applied to the current geopolitical situation?”
Actually, I would say, No, it can’t. The only ‘debate’ in the mainstream media is about Trump, not the people behind him, nor the actual foreign policy.
In the UK there is “lively debate” about Starmer’s leadership but no admission of the relative failure of both Reform and certainly the Tories in the local elections (not allowed because Farage is a tool of US foreign policy, therefore the useless Badenoch is necessary to enable him).
And whilst on the topic of the venality of the media show, the BAFTAs have just awarded the sun and the moon to Adolescence. With only slightly less going to What It Feels Like For a Girl, a “hilarious” romp that has nothing to do with girls and everything to do with jolly knockabout underage trans hijinks.
We can expect such propaganda to continue for at least a century. Like Evil Hitler and the HolyHoax.
The private schoolboys and girls patting each other on the back.
I totally agree that there will never come a time when the media tell the truth because “they were forced to do it”. The “they” refers to the media itself which is unified but presents itself as a vast array of outlets whose biases are “invisible”. This is the one thing that the majority of the population never grasp. The media is an actual thing and it’s operated by actual people. No, the media appears in the poplar conception as the very air we breathe. The media directs the players on the stage but the media itself never appears as a player.
If the headline “They were forced to tell the truth” ever hit the media, the “they” would refer to some player on the stage i.e. some dispensable actor.
Utter bullshit like covid and trans can be relayed by the media until the end of time. And this would still be the case even if no-one in the public believed in these chimeras. Everyone would keep hearing about it and assume that the majority believed it.
But in the unlikely case that e.g. covid was ever admitted to be bullshit, the media would drag some “fall guy” – indeed any number of fall guys. “Look! These bastards lied to us!” And the general population, incapable of understanding or even seeing the media, would happily go along with this.
Consider Exhibit A: those videos of “medical staff” dancing around empty hospital corridors. That, if you haven’t figured it out, was the rulers telling us to our faces that the whole thing was a scam and having a gleeful chortle over it. But in our variegated media wonderland, all sorts of peculiar phantasms glide forth from somewhere or other. The critical facilities of the public have deteriorated abysmally and the overlords know they can rely on the punters to lie to themselves.
The medical staff don’t do much dancing these days George.
‘Long Covid’ is a devil of an ailment.
Nice !
Speaking for myself : I don’t read (or absorb) opinions, I just get pieces of information about facts (if possible I read the original documents or try to view the footage) then I use my own thinking, make some scenarios and pick one which I find more likely. That is for my own use, of course. I sometimes express what I believe in the comments (not too many publications) but otherwise I don’t have any exposure (no social media). So version A or version B are not really relevant to me but I am also not relevant in the grand scheme of things. About the subjects pointed by the article (empire vs. multipolar) : I am sad and worried about the future, any way we go. There could be another path but I’m just a (realistic) dreamer.
It is what it is. It doesnt necessary need to have a name box. As OffG write, facts are sacred. Facts in real world are facts.
What is the benefit of trying to déchiffre the two opposite public lies? None. 🖕 .
What a transparent attempt to shut down thought and road-stop a conversation
I see that you are only fulfilling its purpose, no?
The scheme’s purpose is that you occupy 90% your time with thought and conversations about the two opposite lies, and only have 10% left to seek the real fact(s).
Ok you like it. But I dont like to waste 90% of my time on debunking lies. Thats it.