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"We Get Rich, They Just Die"
By Daniel Patrick Welch"
August 27/28, 2023 -
Information Clearing House
- The Western Anglo-Saxon Empire is
controlling people's minds and their
self-awareness to maintain its global
hegemony, says American writer and
geopolitical analyst Daniel Patrick
Welch.
Welch, who studied Russian History and
Literature at Harvard University, made
the remarks in an interview with the
Press TV website on Friday while
commenting on the Western media converge
of the death of Wagner boss Yevgeny
Prigozhin in a plane crash.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
expressed his "condolences" over the
plane crash that killed Prigozhin and
nine others on Wednesday.
An investigation is currently underway
into what caused Wednesday's crash,
which came two months after Prigozhin
led a short-lived armed mutiny against
the Russian military leadership in
June.
Putin said that it was necessary to
await the outcome of the official
investigation into the crash, in which
all 10 people on board were killed. The
Russian president said the inquiry would
take some time.
'Putin did it!' Blame game goes on for
US Welch scoffs at the reaction of
Western media to the presumed death of
Wagner's boss and the immediate claim of
Western sources that “Putin did it.”
“The first instinct that pops into my
head on a news item like this is just to
scream out. No, he didn't. No, he
didn't. You hear about this of Yevgeny
Prigozhin being killed in a plane crash
outside of Moscow. Immediately, the
Western press ramps up. Biden says it
was Putin. The Sun calls it Putin's
revenge. British media is a joke anyway,
but all of the Western outlets are
screaming this.” The airtight control
over the information pipeline in the
West is most apparent here, according to
Welch: “In fact, what is sad for me and
interesting is that this is actually how
I found out about it. My acknowledgment
of Prigozhin's suspected death was from
a friend who texted me, and said, 'Hey,
Putin doesn't mess around.'”
The writer sees it as a foregone
conclusion that Western press outlets
will respond almost reflexively with a
virtually preapproved text. “This is a
friend who was joking, but the fact is
that the news and that gargantuan lie
and twist of the news are presented as
one always. And that is how the Western
Anglo-Saxon Empire maintains its
hegemony. It's as important as genocide.
It's as important as nuclear war,” he
says.
And it pays off. “They are controlling
people's minds and people's
self-awareness so deeply that people
might not even be fooled that they would
have to look a little deeper. Why did
Putin do this? Why would it be Putin?”
In preventing any further reflection,
mainstream sources fall back on the
assumed narrative that Putin is bad, so
anything goes. “This is not a sock
puppet, an autocrat, who runs Russia in
the farm of his hand, as crazy as it
might seem for Westerners to question
that impulse.”
And again, it works smoothly, says
Welch. “But evil is bad. That's the
thing you can use. Evil is bad. Why
would he do it? Because he's evil.
Because that's the thing you do to your
enemies. Evil people do evil things.”
'US accuses others of exactly what it
does’
The irony, he believes, or perhaps
part of the plan, is the US is accusing
others of exactly what its own actions
have been. “Well, if you really turn it
over, it's what the US does, and they do
it all the damn time. They don't care.”
Welch points out that this is
basically the only script that US and
US-friendly media follows, as we see in
“hotspots” or points of interest (to the
US) around the world. Readymade
narratives immediately fill all
available space: “Khan disappeared both
literally in being sacked with these
ridiculous charges, but also from the
press. Nope, no media, nothing. This
isn't important,” Says the analyst.
Instead, the press decides what to focus
on. “What is important is Putin's
psychosis. We'll have a panel of idiot
psychologists or whatever, whatever.
Just stupid.
Karl Rove's mantra: ‘We create
reality and we respond to it'
“Stupid, or brilliant?” Welch says it
might as well be all by design. “Maybe
this is exactly what they want,” he
says. “This is how they got to the point
that Karl Rove smugly said, ‘We create
reality and we respond to reality that
is created by us. We watch people's
reaction to it.'” This neocon mantra of
George W. Bush’s advisor is now
basically a mainstay of the political
elite, claims Welch. “The press is
useful in this regard--the population is
so well managed, so dumbed down that
they just say it.” And a compliant
populace accepts it as real.
“They don't notice that the Russians
were shocked at this,” Welch points out.
“This is not something that helps Russia
at all.” By contrast, he believes, the
Western propaganda machine was ready to
go. “And the West and Ukraine and the US
had print-ready fiction, ready to go. If
this happens, we'll just call it Putin's
revenge, and that will be the headline.”
‘Brzezinski’s chessboard’
The trouble is, Welch thinks that
people don’t even realize that this
almost impenetrable filter applies
broadly. “It's not Ukraine, it's not
Prigozhin, it's not Niger, it's not
Imran Khan, it's not Pakistan,” says
Welch. “It's the West's need to control
the world. It's Brzezinski’s idiot
chessboard, which goes all the way back
to Mackinder, on who controls the
homeland.”
He refers to former official Zbigniew
Brzezinski, who advised many presidents
and had a major influence on US
relations with the USSR. “Brezhinsky is
dead, finally, in a blessing to all of
humanity. But his obsessive,
Russian-hating, ignorance of history
lives on in this grand scheme of the
Great Game and how to corner, surround,
and ruin China, Russia, and whoever gets
in our way.”
But Welch expands on this, saying it
is not just a Cold War relic. “This goes
back into Africa on the same ground.
There's no shady junta in Niger, who's
ruining the country, which they love to
spout.” Some of the military leaders
involved were actually trained by the
US, he notes. “First of all, several of
them were trained by the US in their
constant attempts to plant spies and CIA
creations in other governments, and it
backfires.”
The objective, he believes, is to use
a front story to distract people from
what is actually happening. “They'll
talk about this so that no one will talk
about Areva, the French mining company
that has been digging and mining the
resources and the hopes and the dreams
and the future of the Nigerien people
for 60 years, and the French government
that uses it to profit from death,
profit from other people's hunger, from
other people's deprivation.”
'We get rich, they just die'
The truth, in Welch’s view, is so
straightforward that they do indeed need
to cover it up. “We get rich, they just
die.”
The challenge, he suggests is not to
accept information at face value in
either case. “Okay, so why would Putin
do this? Why would young Africans rise
up against this? Why is it happening
this way? Cui Bono, to whom the benefit?
What makes sense?”
“That is what people need to use as a
barometer to react,” he states. “As it
happens the people are left, people in
the West, under the regime, under the
yoke of this really terrible media
occupation.” It is demoralizing, and an
effective way to control people, he
says. “People have no agency, they
have no self-conviction, they have no
real identity to stop, ask why, ask who,
and try to figure out what makes sense,”
he adds.
He concludes by pointing out that people
themselves, either in the West or
elsewhere, have a power they don’t even
realize. “Because guess what? People all
over the world are trying to get through
another day, and what makes sense is the
only thing that has meaning to you. And
their curse of centuries, like half a
millennium, is going to end.”
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