RT
Published time: 19 May, 2014
Russia has some of the most precious uncontaminated top soil on the planet and if it is rigorously controlled to stay GMO-free and free from chemicals its productivity would increase as Europe declines, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT...To read further, click here
RT
Published time: 15 May, 2014
A German farmer has revealed shocking GMO company tactics to silence him in an exclusive interview with RT Op-Edge...To read further, click here
RT
Published time: 14 May, 2014
By ramping the oil price up or bringing it down, it’s easy to plunge counties into deep recession or stimulate economic boom, a tactic used by the US to regain lost ground in the Middle East, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT...To read further, click here
New Eastern Outlook
Published time: 12 May, 2014
To read the headlines, it seems that the USA has emerged out of the blue to the point of becoming the world’s oil and gas production giant. All thanks to the Shale Revolution. Recently President Obama made various noises that the US could solve the Ukraine gas dependency on Russian gas because of the spectacular growth of extracting natural gas, and more recently, oil, from shale rock formations across the US. There’s only one thing wrong with this picture—“It ain’t gonna happen…”...To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published time: 27 April, 2014
Video on the real Odessa massacre by Pravy Sektor
Links below for all photos and video
by F. William Engdahl
… and an Odessa eyewitness to the bestial May 2 massacre
[ Editors Note: This was very unpleasant work to have to do this morning, but we have always represented the dead here at VT as best we could...To read further, click here
Press TV
Published time: 27 April, 2014
It’s highly likely that US President Barack Obama is today the world’s loneliest leader. He has clearly been double-crossed again and again by his most trusted friends and advisers, betrayed by “friends,” and hated by foes.
His National Security Adviser, Susan Rice—a key architect with Obama UN Ambassador Samantha Power, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of the disastrous wars on Libya and later Syria, and now, a de facto Cold War against Russia via Ukraine—is bent on urging the president to wage war in every corner of the globe. Rice is a 21st Century version of the psychopathic Teddy Roosevelt. One can imagine if it were the Holy Crusades she would want to grab the sword to kill infidels everywhere. In 1996 Susan Rice, as State Department Assistant Secretary for Africa, was responsible for Congo Wars spearheaded by Rwanda that led to over five million deaths, “to get rid of Mobutu...To read further, click here
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RT - Op Edge
Published time: 22 April, 2014
Remember Bill Clinton's famous line in his 1992 presidential debate with then-President G.W. Bush when Clinton said, "It’s the economy, stupid!"
The Medvedev government in Russia recently announced it would ban import and commercialization of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the Russian Federation. That is commendable to be sure, but new evidence suggests that the health and safety dangers of the GMO assault on our food quality involve the paired agrichemicals that are used in almost all GMO seeds today, namely Monsanto Roundup and other glysophate-based weed killers...To read further, click here
Press TV
Published time: 22 April, 2014
Washington’s decision to go for the military coup in Ukraine was intended to rupture the emerging cooperation between key Eurasian nations that ultimately would have isolated the power of US hegemony and opened the door for a genuine multi-polar world where peaceful cooperation replaced military threats and sole Superpower domination.
The very rich and powerful families who control the US military industry complex reacted by trying to revert to their tried strategy of re-activating a new Cold War that paints Russia as evil and tries to cripple or severely weaken her. Ultimately it was a stupid decision being implemented by very stupid people, who believe they are very smart... To read further, click here
Food Integrity Now - Carol Grieve'
Published time: 16 April, 2014
How have we gotten to where we are now with 85% of all of our food in our mainstream grocery stores genetically modified? This just didn’t happen over night, it was well planned. Food Integrity Now spoke with F. William Engdahl, a researcher, economist, analyst, columnist and author. He has written on issues of energy, economics and geopolitics. Engdahl also checks his facts on everything he talks about or writes. He never speculates! He meticulously researches his topics...To read further, click here
New Eastern Outlook
Published time: 7 April, 2014
The White House and State Department have engaged in brazen lying to EU governments regarding the ability of the US to supply more than enough natural gas to replace Russian gas deliveries. Recent statements by US President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are so patently false that it betrays an incredible desperation in Washington over the situation in Ukraine versus Moscow. Or it suggests that Washington is so out of touch with any factual reality she simply doesn’t care what she says. Either way, it suggests an unreliable diplomatic partner for the EU...To read further, click here
PressTV
Published time: 6 April, 2014
During his visit to Duisburg, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a master stroke of economic diplomacy that runs directly counter to the Washington neo-conservative faction’s effort to bring a new confrontation between NATO and Russia.
Using the role of Duisburg as the world’s largest inland harbor, an historic transportation hub of Europe and of Germany’s Ruhr steel industry center, he proposed that Germany and China cooperate on building a new “economic Silk Road” linking China and Europe. The implications for economic growth across Eurasia are staggering...To read further, click here
RT
Published time: 2 April, 2014
The law approved by Congress to grant a one billion dollar loan to Ukraine is only a loan guarantee and will not even dent Ukraine’s huge debts, 25 billion of which must be paid this year, William Engdahl, a geopolitical analyst, told RT.
The bill will also give more power to American NGO’s to promote democracy in Ukraine, many of the same NGOs that helped create the current instability in Kiev. This is the last thing Ukraine needs at the moment, says Engdahl...To read further, click here
Life Science Network - Maria Bolevich
Published time: 1 April, 2014
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, "Common sense is the genius of humanity”, common sense you can find in the books of William Engdahl. Mr. F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. His books have been translated into 14 languages. He was born in Minnesota, grew up in Texas. I had the honor to interview with him and my advice is - find and read one of the amazing books about Monsanto and GMO's " Seeds of destruction ” as soon as possible. ..To read further, click here
Rense.com
Published time: 23 March, 2014
The events in Ukraine since the start of anti-Yanukovich protests last November have been reported in Germany and in the Western mainstream media such that we are led to believe the ousted Yanukovich regime was evil and the new regime are the good democrats. What has been deliberately censored from Western media is the reality on the ground. Here are a number of amateur videos filmed during and after the coup that paint an alarming picture of the new regime that now might join NATO if Washington has its way...To read further, click here
New Eastern Outlook
Published time: 19 March, 2014
One of the stories seen these days is that the Ukraine fight is all about capturing her huge reserves of shale gas and oil. Leading Ukrainian government officials, even under the hapless Yanukovich cabinet, have become convinced a Ukrainian pot of gold lies in their shale rocks. They teamed up with British and American oil giants to exploit the huge reserves of unconventional shale gas and oil from the country’s eastern shale rock formations. The Anglo-Dutch Shell company along with the US Chevron had already signed contracts to develop the shale potentials of Ukraine. There’s one problem the naïve Ukrainians haven’t yet found out about: The US “shale revolution” is a Wall Street hype...To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published time: 10 March, 2014
[ Editors Note: Mr. Engdahl takes us into the belly of the beast today. It is an unpleasant journey into how the major Western Powers have throw their "democracies" behind an incredible rogues' gallery of cut throats and scoundrels in the Ukraine.
And I will warn you today. If the public does not show more outrage than it has so far, this marriage of international criminal gangs and proxy terrorists will be brought to your neighborhood whenever your crooked politicians decide they want it...To read further, click here
New Eastern Outlook
Published time: 1 March, 2014
Since a dispute over ownership of a group of barren and remote islands in the East China Sea—China calls them Diaoyu Islands, Japan, Senkaku—tensions between the two economic giants of Asia have escalated to a point of near military clash when China late last year imposed an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) that covered a Chinese air patrol including the Islands. More recently, Japan’s right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on December 26 visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the symbol Japan’s World War II occupation of China and killing of millions of Chinese and Koreans. The new sabre rattling from Tokyo, not seen so openly since its defeat in 1945, may owe a lot to quiet support Abe and his faction are getting from friends of Dick Cheney in Washington... To read further, click here
21st Centruy Wire
Published time: 28 February, 2014
The events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to defy belief.
A legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 27 February, 2014
The US government is saying it will help Ukraine’s new government with money, but the US Treasury is not in any political shape to give billions of dollars to the Ukrainian economy which requires $35 billion, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 17 February, 2014
Washington’s explanation that its strengthening missile shield in Europe is being built to guard against the Iranian nuclear threat is no more believable than it was 10 years ago... To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published time: 7 February, 2014
The title might seem facetious but it is anything but. There is a network of US Congressmen, retired military, CIA and other spooks, military industry lobbyists and select media that meet privately on a regular basis to map out policy initiatives.
They call their group the Cockroaches... To read further, click here
Sible Edmonds Boiling Frogs Post
Published time: 3 February, 2014
Turkey & A Surrogate Battle between East & West for the Future of a Pivotal Land at the Geopolitical Crossroads. Since December last year, Turkey has been rocked by a series of arrests and waves of allegations that the government of AK Party Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is riddled with corruption. Erdogan, a scrappy political infighter for all his eccentricities, has fought back and accused “foreign powers” of standing behind his now-arch enemy, former Imam Fethullah Gülen, considered by the US Embassy in Ankara to be the most powerful man in Turkey. What is unfolding across Turkey is far more interesting than your ordinary politician graft scandal. It is an open warfare, not for the future of democracy in Turkey—there is hardly a trace of that. Rather, it is a surrogate battle between East and West for the future of a pivotal land at the geopolitical crossroads between Asia, Europe and the Middle East...To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 14 January, 2014 14:33
In the heat of recent exchanges and deaths of protesters in Ukraine, many have lost sight of the insidious role key players in Washington and certain EU countries are playing.
Their agenda seems to be to force an immediate end to the elected Yanukovich government in Kiev and lock Ukraine into the EU and, ultimately, NATO. Washington’s agenda has little to do with ‘democracy and freedom’, and a lot to do with destabilizing Putin’s Russia. .. To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published: 24 January, 2014
As the Russian Sochi Winter Olympics date approaches, a wave of suicide bombings in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, site of the decisive resistance to German invasion in 1942), have wreaked death and uncertainty in the region. On 29 December 2013 a suicide bomber exploded at the Volgograd railway station, killing the bomber and 16 more. A day later another suicide bombing on a trolleybus killed at least 15 people. The attacks come just a few weeks before the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics begin on February 7 on the Black Sea near the border to Georgia... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 14 January, 2014 14:33
Monsanto "lied" in the US Supreme Court that they'll never sue farmers for inadvertent contamination of their fields, William Engdahl, author of “Seeds of destruction: GMO’s hidden agenda,” told RT... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 13 January, 2014 14:57
The wars for control of Syria, and actually there is more than one going on simultaneously, have a strong background in an undeclared war over who will control the region’s gigantic and newly-discovered oil and gas reserves... To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published time: 7 January, 2014
In a famous speech to the US Congress in March 1991, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the US Gulf War victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a triumphant US President George H.W. Bush proclaimed the dawn of a “New World Order.”i The term, with its ominous freemasonic connotations, raised many an eyebrow and Bush never again publicly used the term. However, what he meant became starkly clear to the world in the two decades following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Now that very US globalization strategy is in a shambles and the outlines of possible alternative orders are slowly emerging... To read further, click here
Sible Edmonds Boiling Frogs Post
Published time: 7 January, 2014
CANVAS: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests - The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Glamor-star boxer-turned political guru, Vitaly Klitschko, has been meeting with the US State Department and is close to Angela Merkel’s CDU political machine in Germany. The EU association agreement with Ukraine is widely resisted by many EU member states with deep economic problems of their own. The two EU figures most pushing it—Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski—are both well known in the EU as close to Washington. The US is strongly pushing the Ukraine EU integration just as it had been behind the 2004 failed “Orange Revolution” to split Ukraine from Russia in a bid to isolate and weaken Russia. Now Ukrainians have found evidence of direct involvement of the Belgrade US-financed training group, CANVAS behind the carefully-orchestrated Kiev protests...To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge
Published time: 26 December, 2013 14:57
In his recent annual meeting with the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin replied to a question about the rumored placement of Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad on Poland's doorstep... To read further, click here
Veterans Today
Published time: Published on 21 December, 2013
Little-noticed by the rest of the world amid the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program and the collapse of the Free Syrian Army is the clear emergence of an entirely new global energy giant in the volatile Middle East. For the first time since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, that country has discovered what seem to be huge reserves not only of natural gas but now also of oil. Not only does it appear that Israel no longer will need to depend on Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil suppliers. Israel seems set to be in direct competition with its Arab OPEC neighbors as well as Iran for world oil and gas markets. This is a huge new geopolitical complication few have even taken into account...To read further, click here
ICPPC International Coalition To Protect The Polish Countryside
Published time: 16 December 2013 09:31
The second highest court of the EU has dealt a major defeat to the pro-GMO lobby in Europe. On December 13, the General Court of the European Union which consists of 28 judges, one from each Member State, issued a ruling that the EU Commission had failed to follow the EU's rules when approving the Amflora potato, a patented Genetically Manipulated potato of the German chemical giant and Monsanto partner, BASF. The Amflora is modified to produce extra starch for use in the paper industry. The decision, which can only be appealed on grounds of a mistaken point of law, now opens the entire EU approval process for GMO to review, something most unwanted by the embattled GMO industry... To read further, click here
KOPP Online
Published time: 12 December, 2013
Am 21. November erklärte der ukrainische Präsident Wiktor Janukowytsch beim EU-Gipfeltreffen in Vilnius, die Ukraine werde entgegen früheren Absichten kein Assoziierungs- und Freihandelsabkommen mit der EU unterzeichnen, das das Land näher an die Europäische Union herangeführt hätte. Stattdessen setzt die Ukraine auf eine Stärkung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Russland. Seit dem Tag wird Janukowytsch bei Protestkundgebungen, die nicht immer friedlich ablaufen, aufgefordert, die Entscheidung zurückzunehmen. In einer merkwürdigen Demonstration von Einmischung in die inneren Angelegenheiten eines fremden Landes reisten Victoria Nuland, die ehemalige US-Botschafterin bei der NATO, und mehrere EU-Politiker nach Kiew, wo sie mit öffentlichen Äußerungen versuchten, die Ukraine zum EU-Beitritt zu bewegen... Um weiter zu lesen, klicken Sie bitte hier
RT Op-Edge
Published time: December 02, 2013 12:34
Mass protests in the streets of Ukraine are being orchestrated and financed from the outside while EU politicians are encouraging the revolt serving their hypocritical agenda, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT... To read further, click here
KOPP Online
Published time: 7 December, 2013
In seiner Abschiedsrede als US-Präsident richtete Dwight D. Eisenhower eine äußerst prophetische Warnung an die Nation. Er sprach aus eigener Erfahrung als Fünfsterne-General der US Army im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Oberbefehlshaber der Alliierten Streitkräfte in Europa und später erster Oberkommandierender der NATO-Streitkräfte in Europa. Es lohnt sich, seine Warnung von 1961 heute noch einmal wörtlich zu zitieren, in einer Zeit, wo Betrug und Korruption im Pentagon außer Kontrolle geraten sind... Um weiter zu lesen, klicken Sie bitte hier
Global Research
Published time: 6 December 2013
There exist rigid criteria for a serious scientific journal to accept a peer-reviewed paper and to publish it. As well there are strict criteria by which such an article can be withdrawn after publication. The once-respected Elsevier Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology has apparently decided to violate those procedures and has announced it is retracting a long-term study on the toxic effects of Monsanto Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)—GMO Maize–it published a year ago... To read further, click here
KOPP Online
Published time: December 02, 2013
Seit dem ersten Erdölschock zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre, als der damalige US-Außenminister Henry Kissinger einen Nahostkrieg manipulierte und bewusst einen Anstieg der OPEC-Rohölpreise auf das Vierfache auslöste, gilt es zwischen Washington und Saudi-Arabien als fest vereinbart, dass die OPEC ihr Erdöl ausschließlich gegen Dollars verkauft. Kissinger sprach vom »Petrodollar-Recycling«. Solange Länder wie China, Japan oder Deutschland Dollars brauchen, um Erdöl zu kaufen, wird der Dollar gestützt. Jetzt plant China, das zu ändern. Die Folgen könnten gewaltig sein, sogar militärisch... Um weiter zu lesen, klicken Sie bitte hier
RT Op-Edge
Published time: December 02, 2013 12:34
Rigid criteria exist for a serious scientific journal to accept a peer-reviewed paper and to publish it. As well there exist strict criteria by which such an article can be withdrawn after publication.
The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology has apparently decided to violate those procedures, announcing it is retracting a long-term study on the toxic effects of Monsanto Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)—GMO Maize it published a year ago ... To read further, click here
KOPP - Online
Published time: December 02, 2013
Es gibt strenge Kriterien, nach denen eine seriöse wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift einen expertenbegutachteten Beitrag annimmt und veröffentlicht. Und es gibt strenge Kriterien, nach denen ein solcher Beitrag nach der Veröffentlichung zurückgezogen werden kann. Die vormals angesehene Zeitschrift Elsevier Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology hat sich offenbar dafür entschieden, gegen beide Verfahren zu verstoßen, denn sie hat bekannt gegeben, dass eine Langzeitstudie über die toxische Wirkung von Monsantos gentechnisch veränderten Organismen (GVO) – Gen-Mais –, die vor einem Jahr veröffentlicht wurde, zurückgezogen wird... Um weiter zu lesen, klicken Sie bitte hier
KOPP - Online
Published time: 11 November, 2013
Hinter der Fassade der Kooperation zwischen der Obama-Regierung in den USA und der Putin-Regierung in Russland über den Abbau des Chemiewaffenarsenals in Syrien und einer Einigung über das Atomprogramm mit dem Iran läuft eine eiskalte Eskalation von Spannungen, die in den westlichen Medien kaum zur Kenntnis genommen wird. Im Zentrum der Spannungen steht Washingtons hartnäckige Weigerung, in der Frage der »Raketenverteidigung« in Europa – die diesen Namen sicherlich zu Unrecht trägt – mit Russland zusammenzuarbeiten... Um weiter zu lesen, klicken Sie bitte hier
RT Op-Edge Q & A Interview
Published time: November 22, 2013 04:02
The EU 'horror show' would not have offered Ukraine any financial benefits, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT. He argues that multinational corporations just want to use Kiev to extract the resources of yet another European country ... To read further, click here
Veterans Today Interview
Published time: 17 October, 2013
Since August 1971 when US President Richard Nixon unilaterally tore up the Bretton Woods Treaty of 1944 and told the world that the Federal Reserve Gold Discount Window was permanently closed, Wall Street banks and US and City of London financial powers have done everything imaginable to prevent gold from again becoming the basis of trust in a currency ... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge Q & A Interview
Published time: 11 October, 2013 21:12
The OPCW may be performing the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, but it was Russian President Vladimir Putin, who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize as it was his initiative, which prevented World War III, political analyst F. William Engdahl told RT. ... To read further, click here
The Voice of Russia World Service Q & A Interview
Published time: 10 October, 2013 1:40
For the first time in history a woman is to head the US Central Bank. Janet Yellen will be appointed by President Obama to run the powerful US Federal Reserve. Her nomination has been expected ever since former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdrew his candidacy. William Engdahl, a freelance journalist, historian and economic researcher, talked with the Voice of Russia about Ms Yellen's appointment ... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge Q & A Interview
Published time: 1 October, 2013 16:55
Iran "isn't insane enough" to attack Israel with its advanced military and all the talk about the threat coming from Tehran is being artificially fueled by the US and Israel itself, geopolitical analyst F. William Engdahl, told RT... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge Q & A Interview
Published time: September 27, 2013 02:20
Shale gas exploration contracts with Western companies would only result in the environmental degradation of Ukraine, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT, adding that Kiev's future is not with the West but with Russia... To read further, click here
RT Op-Edge Q & A Video Interview
Published time: 21 August, 2013 15:12
The reports of massive chemical attacks in Syria might become the "red line" for the US for active military intervention. But even rudimentary analysis of the story shows it is too early to believe its credibility... To read further, click here
By F. William Engdahl Published: 18 August, 2013
This website was one of the few to report that the Egyptian military's removal by forced of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi and his entire government was undertaken with firm secret backing of Saudi Arabia and several Gulf oil states...Read Further
By F. William Engdahl Published: 14 August, 2013
With a diplomatic attitude more reminiscent of a spoiled brat grabbing his toys and leaving the room, US President Obama has resorted to diplomatic snubs and childish criticisms of Russian behavior as if the Russian leaders were small children....Read Further
RT Op-Edge Q & A Interview
Published time: 11 August, 2013 17:17
Edward Snowden is a 'red herring' and the 'childish' cancelation by Obama of a meeting with Putin in September is of little significance as the US president has little to offer Russia, William Engdahl a geopolitical analyst, told RT..... Continued
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 9 August, 2013
RT Op-Edge
Developing Pakistan-China ties which can drastically change the economic map of the region are threatened by Pakistani separatism, which might suddenly transform into another 'terror ground.' As Washington continues sending its development assistance aid in the form of drones to bomb civilians illegally inside Pakistan's borders, allegedly to go after Taliban fighters, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently completed... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 8 July, 2013
One of the least commented aspects of ousting Egypt's Morsi is the defiant act of the Saudi Royal House in backing the ouster of the Brotherhood and supporting the military restoration. The Saudi move is unprecedented in its open defiance of White House declared backing for the Muslim Brotherhood. The implications of the split are huge.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 4 July, 2013
The swift action by Egypt's military to arrest Mohamed Morsi and key leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood organization on July 3 marks a major setback for Washington's "Arab Spring" strategy of using political Islam to spread chaos from China through Russia across the energy-rich Middle East. ..... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 3 June, 2013
On May 31 world media headlines read similar to this from Reuters: "Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe." The original source for the story is attributed to a German left daily, TAZ which printed excerpts from an interview with an official spokeswoman of Monsanto Germany... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 25 May, 2013
In the first part, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl discussed the role of CIA's Graham Fuller in creating the policy of using angry Jihadist Muslims as trained terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere against the Soviet Union. Herein—largely drawing on the revelations made by FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edwards—Engdahl throws the spotlight on the entire CIA-sponsored Islamic Jihadist operations run through Fetullah Gülen across Turkey into Central Asia and Russia and China...... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 20 May, 2013
Are there too many coincidences in the Boston Bombings official narrative to call them coincidences? Behind each one lurks the shadow of Graham Fuller—a top CIA strategist who famously advocated co-opting Islamic extremists to further advance the US agenda in Central Asia—and his cozy ties with the accused brothers' uncle. William Engdahl delves into the ramifications of the Fuller-Tsarni connection, the most compelling of the Boston smoking guns, and the threatening can of worms it has opened up... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 12 May, 2013
At a time when the US and Gulf proxies are losing ground to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) nationwide, this pundit ranges in on the likely motive for Israel's recent air raids against Syria, carried out with Washington's approbation..... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 15 March, 2013
At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in USA unconventional gas from shale rock, when countries from China to Poland to France to the UK are beginning to launch their own ventures into unconventional shale gas extraction, hoping it is the cure for their energy woes, the US shale boom is revealing itself to have been a gigantic hyped confidence bubble that is already beginning to deflate. Carpe diem!.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 31 January, 2013
Out of the blue in the last days Mali has suddenly become the focus of world attention. France has been asked to militarily intervene by Mali's government to drive Jihadist terrorists out of the large parts of the country they claim. What the conflict in Mali really is about is hardly what we read in the mainstream media. It is about vast untapped mineral and energy resources and a de facto re-colonization of French Africa under the banner of human rights. The real background reads like a John LeCarre thriller.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 21 January, 2013
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention. Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face..... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 22 November, 2012
The looming confrontation will be even harsher that the previous ones. U.S. forces have been withdrawing from Europe and disengaging from the Middle East. They are currently clustering around China and developing a ballistic missile shield which - should it actually prove effective some day - would enable Washington to strike Beijing without fear of reprisal... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 12 October, 2012
Despite the miscarriage of NATO's secret military operation against Syria, withdrawal by the West stumbles on two issues. Can Washington and its allies refrain from grabbing the Syrian gas reserves? And can they leave Syria in the position of being the only state in the region which escapes the control of the Muslim Brotherhood?... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 13 September, 2012
The assassination of the most respected Sufi religious leader in Dagestan, Russia's volatile Caucasus, comes as Salafist jihadists in Libya murder a US Ambassador who was actually a key player in ousting Gaddafi and bringing the Salafist Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadists into power. Throughout the entire Islamic world today, a wave of hate is being unleashed in the name of Islamic fundamentalism that could bring a new world war. This is the consequence of the Greater Middle East Project put in play in 2010 and earlier by the Washington-London-Tel Aviv axis. Manipulating religious fervor is an explosive cocktail as F. William Engdahl shows here... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 August, 2012
With little fanfare Barack Obama late last year announced a "strategic pivot" in US defense policy to focus on the Pacific, bolstered by "Coalition of the willing" Australia. It is all about emerging China as an economic colossus with a mind all its own. The US military has been steadily positioning itself along the strategic sea lanes surrounding China to deal potentially deadly blows to the mainland as well as cutting off its oil corridors to the Middle East and Africa. This author breaks down a situation where the noose tightening around China could generate a major new conflict zone in the not too distant future. ..... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 July, 2012
For blocking a UN resolution that could have led to military intervention in Syria, Russia has been accused by the Orwellian West of putting its national interests ahead of the lives of millions of Syrians. By scrutinizing Vladimir Putin's actions since his reelection, William Engdahl shows that Russia is indeed pursuing her national interests which are best served by fostering a just and peaceful world environment and by thwarting the US-Israeli agenda for a Greater Middle East.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 5 July, 2012
Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression "teaching about the birds and the bees" to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not an accidental expression. Bees and birds contribute to the essence of life on our planet. A study by the US Department of Agriculture estimated that "…perhaps one-third of our total diet is dependent, directly or indirectly, upon insect-pollinated plants."1... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 17 May, 2012
Across the United States the exploitation of gas and oil from shale rocks using Halliburton's hydraulic fracturing technology continues amid rising disasters. Unregulated drilling practices, rendered legal by the "Halliburton Loophole" engineered in 2005 by Vice President Dick Cheney, have had staggering health and environmental effects. Lured by the prospect of reducing oil dependence, President Obama has adopted an ambivalent approach, which ultimately yields ground to industry. With the same expectancy, countries all around the world have joined the shale-gas craze, arguing that if the U.S. has been "fracking" it must be safe. Energy independence would undoubtedly represent a game changing opportunity for many countries, but at what cost?.. Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 April, 2012
The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom has been further solidified following recent talks between Turkish and Chinese leaders. The first steps are being constructed with a number of little-publicized rail links envisioned to connect China and parts of Western Europe. It is increasingly clear to all nations concerned, especially China and Russia, that their natural tendency to develop these markets faces only one major hurdle: NATO and the US Pentagon's Full Spectrum Dominance obsession. According to Engdahl, rail infrastructure is a major geopolitical tool for obviating that obstacle... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 12 April, 2012
Not satisfied with having sponsored the artificial creation of Kosovo, the United States has now decided to ram the mafia state through NATO and the European Union. A new member with such characteristics is the last thing that Europe needs right now. However, it should work wonders for the consolidation of U.S. political and military agenda in the region, not to speak of the flourishing heroin trade from Afghanistan...both of which, as Engdahl points out in this sharp analysis, pose a threat to Russia and may backfire in the end... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 26 March, 2012
While few would criticize putting indicted Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony in prison, the motives and timing of the viral video campaign launched by an NGO with an angelic sounding name are less clear. Invisible Children has blurred the line between charity and politics, advocating direct military action. What is clear to this author is that "Kony2012" is 'manipulative propaganda being used to advance an AFRICOM military presence in the richest mineral region in the world' before China stakes a claim to it. The battle for Africa has only just begun. ..... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 18 March, 2012
While the drop in oil demand and enhaced production should be pulling prices down, fuel has never been more expensive. Engdahl dismisses explanations linked to saber-rattling and the peak oil theory. He points instead an accusing finger at oil price speculation and manipulation by Wall Street banks, with the collusion of the Government Agency which should be regulating their activities but whose chairman - a "former" Goldman Sachs asset - has conveniently been asleep at the wheel... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 6 March, 2012
After the Eastern Mediterranean, this author focuses on the gas and oil windfall in the Aegean sea, which promises to fiercely shake up the geopolitical landscape. In the case of Greece, while new-found reserves could potentially blot out her entire debt, and possibly have even averted it, the foreign patrons of this de-sovereignized state have very different plans. Hillary Clinton, for one, was quick to turn up in Athens to dictate her terms on behalf of U.S. (and Bill's) energy interests in the region, not least that of antagonizing Russia.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 February, 2012
According to Major General Luo Yuan, member of the Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Republic of China, the US ultimatum to Syria has backfired on Washington. He has urged Moscow and Beijing to join forces to ward off any further imperial expansion by the United States... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 20 February, 2012
A recent major oil and gas find is bound to change dramatically the geopolitical equation in the Eastern Mediterranean region and beyond. To start with, it has sent Israel from rags to riches in terms of energy independence and security. However, Lebanon contends that part of the gas field lies within its territorial waters, and Washington happens to agree. Engdahl explores the implications of this key development, which have already rippled into the U.S. electoral scene, with Netanyahu betting on Republican race horses against Obama... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 28 January, 2012
The United States is continuing its penetration and stranglehold of Africa one country after another, while attempting to keep China at bay. As Nigeria spirals into instability, historian and geopolitical analyst F. William Engdahl argues that a recent government decision to lift subsidies on imported fuel in the oil-rich nation bears the hallmarks of Washington Consensus shock therapy, packaged and personally delivered by IMF's new managing director... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 9 January, 2012
Vladimir Putin is one of the few world leaders capable of rattling the foundations of U.S. hegemony: military dominance and the dollar's supremacy as reserve currency. Engdahl shows that the recent election protests in Russia were orchestrated by Washington-sponsored NGOs and their domestic agents in an unsuccessful attempt to destabilize the country. With the rapid erosion of U.S. global dominance, Engdahl warns that the neutralization of Russia and other recalcitrant states will again be on the agenda of the next White House occupant.... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 1 December 2011
Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war. No, it's not at all about Iran and Israel. It's about the decision of Washington and the Pentagon to push Moscow up against the wall with what is euphemistically called Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 15 November 2011
Through the new North Stream and South Stream pipeline systems, Russia is clearly redrawing the energy map of Europe. Its status as the pre-eminent supplier of natural gas-hungry European countries, including major NATO member states, is certain to significantly transform future east-west relations. As expounded by this author, energy is the lever for Russia's return to the world stage and for checkmating Washington's NATO encirclement strategy...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 7 October 2011
While nervously watching China edging closer to becoming the predominant world power in the 21st century, Washington has also been keeping a keen eye on China's heavy reliance on foreign oil to meet its growing energy needs. Engdahl analyses the oil trap that Washington has laid for China in Libya and through AFRICOM's deployment across Africa... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 1 July 2011
Amid wars in the oil world, financial crises and economic depression little notice is being paid to what is looming as the worst potential catastrophe in modern times, namely a global crisis in food availability. This author exposes the intrigues that enabled the U.S. to gain worldwide control over food production and supply, using food as a political weapon. Domination and profit are not the only goals; a long-time scheme is at play which serves a much darker agenda... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 4 May 2011
In his "1984" imaginary scenario of a totalitarian world George Orwell wrote that the Ministry of Peace deals with war, and the Ministry of Love deals with torture, that War equals peace. In 2011 the world is witnessing a grand scale playing out of Orwell's horror scenario in the guise of the NATO "humanitarian" intervention into Libya in order allegedly to support the higher principle of the Responsibility to Protect. What lies behind this seductive rhetoric could be the next step towards the realization of Orwell's 1984 global order...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 28 March 2011
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was "suspected" of having been trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US 'War on Terror,' namely a desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 7 February 2011
Controverting majority opinion, F. William Engdahl questions the spontaneity of the protest movements in Arab countries and sees them as a replay of the US-orchestrated colour revolutions that triggered regime change in post-Soviet countries. The same script and cast of characters are at hand: local opposition leaders coached by CIA-front organizations in the art of staging "spontaneous" uprisings. However, Washington's current stratagem may well backfire. Unlike East Europeans, the "American way of life" is hardly what the Arab masses are putting their life on the line for... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 5 January 2011
The final decision in the Russian trial against former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has drawn dramatic statements of protest from the US Obama Administration and governments around the world labeling Russian justice as tyrannical and worse. What is carefully omitted from the Khodovkorsky story however is the true reason Putin arrested and imprisoned the former head of Russia's largest private oil giant, Yukos... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 11 December 2010
Whatever internal factional battles might be going on inside Kremlin walls between Medvedev and Putin, there are clear signs of late that both Beijing and Moscow are moving decisively after long hesitation to strengthen strategic economic cooperation in the face of the obvious disintegration of America as the sole Superpower. If the recent trend is deepened it will create Washington's worst geopolitical nightmare: a unified Eurasia landmass capable of challenging America's global economic hegemony...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 10 December 2010
The story on the surface makes for a script for a new Oliver Stone Hollywood thriller. However, a closer look at the details of what has so far been carefully leaked by the most ultra-establishment of international media such as the New York Times reveals a clear agenda. That agenda coincidentally serves to buttress that of US geopolitics around the world from Iran to North Korea. The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Internet...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 19 November 2010
Believed to be behind the decline in bee populations that has swept across many parts of the world, a new class of insecticides marketed by German chemicals giant Bayer AG is now suspected of causing the decimation of bird species. It is so effective at killing insects, that it has deprived birds of their basic food. F. William Engdahl points an accusing finger at a system where corporations fund the research, the scientists and the government agents, thus making sure all the cards are stacked in their favor...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 4 November 2010
The earlier filing of fraud charges against Wall Street banking titan Goldman Sachs by the US Government Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was only the tip of a huge fraud iceberg. Now a US mortgage insurer has charged one of the most aggressive banks involved in the US subprime mortgage scam of fraud. The bank is none other than Deutsche Bank. This case is also likely to be just the "tip of a very big iceberg."... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 October 2010
With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China's economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure strategy of Washington against China...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 6 October 2010
The embattled Euro has gotten a surprise boost from an unexpected quarter―China. The country with the world's largest foreign exchange currency reserves, China, has pledged to support Greek debt as well as the Euro in what is clearly a geopolitical decision. In doing so, China has signaled it seeks to prevent the US financial warfare attack on Europe and to play the EU off against the USA in a geopolitical chess game of a fascinating dimension...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 14 September 2010
With his habitual acumen, F. William Engdahl peers behind the scenes of the Ground Zero Mosque and the Koran burning hullabaloo. He detects a geopolitical manipulation, ultimately serving to reinforce the US Government's narrative of the disintegration of the WTC towers and to lend credence to the underlying crusader ideology of the "clash of civilizations". All of it tying in with the need to justify US military occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the expanding militarization of the region...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 22 August 2010
As the European Union moves closer to approving the cultivation of GMOs despite stiff widespread opposition, it ought to be paying urgent attention to the agricultural arms race unfolding in the United States. Roundup-resistant "superweeds" are plaguing Monsanto crops across southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, abandon their farms or return to conventional crops, while an increasing number are switching to organic production...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 20 August 2010
Coinciding with Voltaire Network's interpretation of the Wikileaks uproar, F. William Engdhal also detects the signs of a gross diversion maneuver. Conspicuously, no mention is made of the juicy Afghan drug business while retired Pakistani General Hamid Gul is conveniently framed for the breakdown of U.S. policies in Afghanistan. This is the second time that the mightiest world power is ridiculing itself by alleging that it has been outwitted at the hands of a sigle man. Remarkably, one of the few who still believes in the official 9/11-Ossama Bin Laden tale happens to be leakmaster Julian Assange...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 10July 2010
Germany's foreign policy is split between, on the one hand, the ties it developed with the U.S. occupier during the 20th Century and, on the other hand, its economic interests vis-à-vis its historical partner, Russia. Gerard Shroder embodies this dilemma best. Formerly an atlantistic Chancellor, he is today CEO of a Russian consortium. At the geopolitical level, this contradiction centres on the port of Lubmin (near Rostock), the terminal of a German-Russian gas pipeline...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 11 June 2010
The alleged North Korean sinking of a South Korean boat in March has dramatically escalated tensions between north and south Korea. It has also caused a reversal of a planned Japanese government push to close the US military base on Okinawa. The major question in the bizarre affair is Cui Bono?..Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 10 June 2010
The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world's worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 2 June 2010
In this fourth and final part, F. William Engdhal explains why the stakes for Washington in the Kyrgyzstan events are of vital geopolitical importance. Central Asia is key for Washington's strategy of global dominance, hinging on the militarization of the entire region. To this end, time-tested tactics of Low Intensity Warfare are generating the pretext for NATO's permanent expansion under the guise of the 'war on terror', with opium gainfully fueling the operations. In Central Asia, as Engdhal suggests, the survival of the U.S. empire hangs in the balance...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 30 May 2010
In this third part of his work, F. William Engdhal examines the essential geopolitical importance of Kyrgyzstan for Russia, the second geopolitical player for the control of Eurasia's land space. Considering its military encirclement by NATO and the U.S., a neutral regime in Kyrgyzstan would contribute to stabilize Russia's regional environment, allowing it to reposition itself on the Central Asian chessboard. Suspected by some of having precipitated the violent events in Kyrgyzstan, Russia recently defined them as "unconstitutional"...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 27 May 2010
Continuing with F. William Engdhal's analysis of what is playing out in this prize region, part two examines China's geopolitical interest in Kyrgyzstan. Triggering the 2005 Tulip Revolution were, inter alia, the growing economic ties between the two countries, of which Washington disapproved. Today, China's economic clout remains its strongest weapon in aiming not only to regain a foothold in Kyrgyzstan, crucial for its expansion into Central Asia, but also to offset the destabilising effects of the U.S. military presence in that country and in the region...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 26 May 2010
The dust has far from settled in Kyrgyzstan after the April 2010 uprising and speculations continue to swirl around the signature behind the events. The least likely scenario is that of a spontaneous homegrown rebellion. Kyrgyzstan is a hub of competing interests involving both regional and extra-regional powers. F. William Engdhal examines the game of each of the three players with a major stake in Kyrgyzstan and in the region...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 5 May 2010
Voltaire Network has systematically exposed the financial ties between French-based NGO Reporters Without Borders and US Government/CIA front organizations. Officially devoted to "freedom of the press", RWB is best known for its smear campaigns against Washington's political foes like Cuba and Venezuela. RWB has recently added five new names to its "evil guys list", who also happen to fit in with Washington's destabilization agenda. F. William Engdhal examines the money trail underpinning RWB's activities in the shadow of US strategic interests...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 30 March 2010
The passing of the "orange revolution" in the Ukraine has provided Russia with manifold strategic advantanges, plus the latitude to play the energy card as a diplomatic and political lever, seriously upsetting the U.S. apple cart. The ripple effects of Russia's stronger hand are posing a grave challenge to Washington's global influence and assumed sole hegemony. In this second part of his article, Engdhal dissects the far reaching implications of this crucial shift...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 24 March 2010
The Ukrainian "orange revolution" lived through one presidential term. Like the rest of the coloured revolutions, it basically amounted to a coup d'état orchestrated by Washington through the manipulation of public opinion. As usual, it was the economic results of the team in power that sparked widespread disenchantment. While promising western prosperity, the government's only goal was Ukraine's accession to NATO. It's defeat - and Viktor Yanukovich's victory - deprives Washington of an indispensable piece to achieve the encirclement of Russia...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 3 February 2010
Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world's richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela. While bringing to light the geostrategic honeypot that Haiti has turned into, Engdahl also states his case against the advocates of the 'Peak Oil' theory...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 22 January 2010
Only days after the failed Copenhagen Global Warming Summit, yet a new scandal over the scientific accuracy of the UN IPCC 2007 climate report has emerged. Following the major data-manipulation scandals from the UN-tied research center at Britain's East Anglia University late 2009, the picture emerges of one of the most massive scientific frauds of recent history...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 11 Januaray 2010
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will launch an inquiry in the course of this month on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on the extent of the pharma's industry's influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the PACE, a body representing 47 European nations including Russia, has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a "Golden...Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 9 December 2009
The man with the nickname "Dr Flu", Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not only is Osterhaus the connecting person in an international network that has been described as the Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor to WHO on influenza and is intimately positioned to personally profit from the billions of euros in vaccines allegedly aimed at H1N1... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 21 October 2009
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 19 October 2009
Inaugurated in February 2008, this "frozen Noah's Ark" is back in the news following UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's recent visit ahead of the key international climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. In this article, written in December 2007, F. William Engdahl comments that, when Gates, Rockefeller and Agribusiness get together on a project, it is prudent to take notice. If past deeds are any indicator, those who have taken it upon themselves to locate and store seeds in this secure facility are not benevolent servants of humanity, nor the preservers of life... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 17 October 2009
Relations between the US and Bolivia have been tense ever since Evo Morales became president in December 2005, pledging to nationalize his country's vast gas reserves. They hit a critical point in September 2008 when Morales ordered the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador, accusing him of fomenting the civil unrest that threatened not only the country's first indigenous Indian president but the unity of the nation itself. The latest news report that Russia will sign an agreement with the Bolivian government to explore and produce natural gas is a significant setback for US domination of its traditional Latin American sphere of influence... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 15 September 2009
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990's in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now the real reason has come to light: the GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 13 July 2009
After the tragic events of July 5 in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government's "independent" NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US, once more acting through its "private" NGO is massively intervening into the internal politics of China. Engdahl's article ties in with Voltaire Network's consistent reporting on the covert action of the NED and "sister" organizations aimed at destabilizing countries of strategic interest for Washington under the guise of liberty and democracy... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 8 June 2009
The French Government is developing secret plans to impose mandatory vaccination of the entire French population, allegedly against possible Swine Flu disease according to reports leaked in a French newspaper. The plan is without precedent and even defies recommended public health advice. Pharmaceutical giants benefit from the move, as the Swine Flu increases the trend to militarization of public health and use of needless population panic to advance the agenda... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 23 May 2009
In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) states that 'GM foods pose a serious health risk' and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes 'there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects' and that 'GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.' The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world's leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 17 April 2009
President Barack Obama's stop in Turkey was hardly an afterthought, a "while I'm in the neighborhood" visit and it was far more momentous than the president's speech would suggest. For Washington, Turkey today has become a geopolitical "pivot state" which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it, depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines... Click here to continue reading
By F. William Engdahl
Publish date: 1 March 2009
Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a joint declaration in Moscow on 28 February 2009 aimed at deepening friendly relations and improving multidimensional cooperation between the two countries, with the Russian side defining the declaration as a "strategic document." Despite the problems of the ruble and the weak oil price in recent months for the Russian economy, the Russian Government is pursuing a very active foreign policy strategy. Its elements focus on countering the continuing NATO encirclement policy of Washington, with often clever diplomatic initiatives on its Eurasian periphery... Click here to continue reading