As War Party shadow boxes, agenda surges unopposed: Analyst

The issue of dismissal of FBI Director James Comey or alleged Russian meddling in US election is a dangerous distraction, according to Daniel Patrick Welch, an American writer and political analyst.

Welch said the real issue is the resistance from Russia, China and Iran against a Western hegemony.

On Tuesday, Trump fired Comey, who had been leading a politically-charged investigation into alleged ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, telling him it was time for a "new beginning" at America’s "crown jewel of law enforcement."

Comey has been criticized by lawmakers in both Republican and Democratic Parties for his handling of investigations connected to the 2016 presidential election -- the Russia investigation as well as the inquiry into Clinton's email practices while she was secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.

"This is the thing: Russia and China, increasingly together, with Iran, and to a lesser extent some other countries, are trying to push back against Western hegemony out of self-interest and for mere survival,” Welch told Press TV on Thursday.

“They have different ways of approaching it. They have different ways of doing it. There are some contractions that make some parts of it maybe unseemly. It’s hard sometimes for Westerners to understand which way this is going, which way that is going, but that is the central fight, that’s happening now,” he stated.

“And the Comey, Russia thing is a complete distraction, a complete nonsense,” he added.

“And besides we’re talking about the FBI! Liberals and Democrats want to get us all heated about who's running the FBI? This J. Edgar Hoover’s agency! This is the agency of the Red Squad. This the agency that murdered Fred Hampton in his bed, that hunted down the Panthers, that created COINTELPRO, that created the Red Squad, and, I mean, has been spouting lie after lie about virtually every issue you can name, from Martin Luther King’s assassination to this Russiagate thing,” the analyst noted.   

“There’s never been any trustworthy thing that served the people’s interest coming out of this agency,” Welch observed. 

COINTELPRO and J. Edgar Hoover

COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects carried out by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting American political organizations.

J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI from 1935 to 1972, issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize or otherwise eliminate" the activities of the political movements and particularly their leaders.

Another red herring 

Comey learned about his firing as director of the FBI through a news report on television while he was giving a speech and thought it was a joke, according to bureau staffers.

He was addressing his FBI team in Los Angeles on Tuesday when he saw the news on television screens in the room. He laughed after he saw the news, but he "stepped into a side office, where he confirmed that he had been fired.”

Welch said that the news that Comey heard about being fired from TV "is funny. It’s comical, and if it’s true it’s obviously unprofessional like several Congressmen have said, things shouldn’t be handled that way."

"But it really is yet another red herring in a whole, massive school of red herrings. It’s like living in an underwater National Geographic film, with the big school of fish swimming around," he stated. 

Welch said that "this works in the US, because the population is so dumbed down and so brainwashed that their reaction to anything like this is almost never anything but 'Ooh, shiny!' 'Look over there; there’s something new and shiny!'"

The analyst said "so to get on board with this agenda just because it is new and shiny (Trump is bad)—it’s just not our fight. Our task is to push back against the most massive propaganda matrix ever assembled, that convinces people that up is down and day is night. And to shout the truth from the rooftops on every platform available to us. The fate of the world hangs in the balance."

Anglo/US hegemony vs. the entire mass of humanity

Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch said that “you have to keep your eye on the ball. There is nothing new here; there is nothing different happening in the world today.”

“The Anglo/US imperial hegemony, that has run amok in the world for almost half a millennium now, is clearly the main danger to the world. It is clearly the central contradiction in modern political history—which is Anglo/US hegemony vs. the entire mass of humanity,” he stated.

“And to get distracted into little side issues and whirlpools, I think only feeds the beast,” the commentator noted.  

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