How U.S.-&-Allied Billionaires Mentally Enslave their Publics

8 June 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

In order to control a public, the “good cop versus bad cop routine” is invariably successful if the billionaires (who collectively control the Government) throw enough money into it, which they invariably do — portraying the villain to be not their Government (those billionaires themselves) but just “a bad apple” (‘the opposite side’ — whatever that may be — such as the Republican Party, or else the Democratic Party) — the Government ITSELF is thus NOT itself blamed (only ‘the bad cop’ is), and so the public accept the billionaires’ Government no matter how bad it actually may be. (This, for example, might explain why most of the leaders in ‘democratic’ countries — including the countries that are in the U.S. empire — have a higher percentage of their public disapproving than approving of their job-performance: these leaders are actually serving their billionaires, instead of their public.)

Here that “good cop versus bad cop” ruse is described in regards to the U.S. regime’s international policies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqd1aoyu3c

“US-Israel Attack Iran: ‘Leave it to Bibi’ Playbook Used Again, US Feigns Ignorance”

8 June 2026, Brian Berletic, The New Atlas

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Today is June 8th, 2026. There are

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reports that Iran is under attack again.

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This time it is Israel carrying out

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strikes on Iranian military targets.

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Those are the Western headlines. Of

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course, as I’ve explained many times,

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and you can see some of the videos that

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I’ve pulled off of Telegram channels

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that I follow, posting these videos of

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alleged strikes by Israel in Iran. As

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I’ve explained many times before, Israel

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is an extension of the United States.

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Militarily does not exist without

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complete and constant U.S. support. Every

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Israeli war plane, every bomb, every

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scrap of intel that they get, every drop

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of fuel that they are given in terms of

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mid-air refueling that they are required

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to do to reach the launch points for

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these attacks is provided by the United

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States of America. If the United States

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of America does not assist Israel, no no

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military attack of any sort of

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substantial scale can take place without

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U.S. support. Even smaller scale attacks

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are carried out by capabilities the

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United States has given Israel. And of

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course, the intel again is — they’re

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dependent on the United States. So this

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is a U.S. attack carried out on Iran

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through Israel. This is exactly what the

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United States has done uh to Russia

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throughout the entire duration of the

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war in Ukraine. They are fighting Russia

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through Ukraine. They are fighting Iran

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through Israel. Now, this says the

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strikes came hours after the Israel

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Defense Forces said Iran launched

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missiles toward Israel, which it said

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were intercepted. And this all follows

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the continuous bombardment by U.S.-backed

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Israel of Lebanon. There’s supposed to

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be a ceasefire and yet the United States

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has continuously attacked Iran

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militarily. They’re imposing a blockade

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on Iranian ports. They’re firing on

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Iranian ships during a so-called

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ceasefire and so-called negotiations.

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And Israel is doing the exact same thing

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vis-a-vis Lebanon and Hezbollah in southern

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Lebanon. And so this was always going to

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simmer in the background until any any

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point at which the United States decided

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to escalate.

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Now, here’s the, here’s the very

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predictable response from the United

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States. First, and this is via Axios,

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which is, which is propaganda. This is

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not news. You’re not getting news.

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You’re not getting information. You’re

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getting perception management from these

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Western mainstream networks, including

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Axios. Trump tells Axios he will ask

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Netanyahu not to strike back at Iran.

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It’s so nice of President Donald Trump

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to stop what he’s doing and update Axios

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and his every, his every thought and

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action.

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And then after the attacks, U.S. says it

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was not involved in Israel’s military

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strikes in Iran. But I’ve just explained

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to you that every single military

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capability …

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…

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As an example of a liberal propagandist against that realistic view, consider this interview of Jeffrey Sachs, recorded on June 7th but posted on June 8th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knv-qWptydk

“’Total Catastrophe’ For U.S. Military – Iran Just Did The Impossible. | Jeffrey Sachs”

He and his interviewer accept the “good cop versus bad cop” portrayal that the evil comes only from Israel and that the U.S. Government is just stupid. Israel clearly is evil, but Berletic is exactly true that “no military attack of any sort of substantial scale can take place without U.S. support. Even smaller scale attacks are carried out by capabilities the United States has given Israel. And of course, the intel again is — they’re dependent on the United States.” So, what Sachs is doing there is basically the strategy of the Democratic Party’s billionaires and of their Democratic Party in Congress — talking against the blatant evils that Israel does, but continuing to soak America’s taxpayers at least $3.8 billion per year to fund it, at least $3.3 billion of that total going to pay America’s weapons-producers for the weapons that Israel uses against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, etc. And who controls and owns those weapons-manufacturers and U.S. intelligence — America’s billionaires (including its Democratic Party ones) do. So, even though congressional Democrats are not in control of Congress, they vote nearly 100% for all of that military spending, instead of condemn it and reject the neoconservatism behind it — because BOTH of the Parties are neoconservative; that’s one of the few bipartisan policy-positions, because ALL billionaires support it, none of them oppose it.

And this explains the billionaires’ propaganda from the liberal side, the Democratic Party.

And here is an example of that “good cop versus bad cop routine” from the Republican, the conservative, side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkFg1Mrt78M

“Israel’s Fighter Jets Just Bombed The One Factory Iran Can’t Afford To Lose”

8 June 2026, Max Afterburner

Here, on the conservative billionaires’ side, Iran is being portrayed as the aggressor, and Israel as the defender, when, in fact, the reverse is true: the U.S. and Israel started the present war against Iran by Trump and Netanyahu threatening to destroy Iran if Iran would not obey them and sign a surrender. This video calls Iran’s Government “Iran’s regime,” but doesn’t refer to “Israel’s regime” nor to “America’s regime.” Instead, it constantly refers to Iran’s “aggression” despite the fact that not ONLY did Trump and Netanyahu start this round of their war against Iran on February 28th by bombing Iran, but the U.S. had actually started its war against Iran under Eisenhower in 1953, by perpetrating a CIA coup overthrowing the popular progressive democratically elected leader of Iran and installing the U.S.-chosen brutal fascist Shah to replace him until, in 1979, the Iranian people finally rose up to overthrow that fascist and installed the present Government, which the U.S. Government has, ever since then, been trying to — yet again — overthrow.

For thousands of years, aristocracies have used as their primary means of controlling their respective publics “divide-and-rule” — the “good cop versus bad cop” routine.

On June 3rd I headlined “How Americans Can Replace Our Billionaires’ Dictatorship, by a Democracy”, and explained and documented the only way that I see to be realistically possible to finally end this dictatorship by the billionaires. It would require adding an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (Constructive change is never easy.)

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.