F. William Engdahl

US-German author and analyst of geopolitical and economic issues. His newest book is Myths, Lies and Oil Wars. Earlier works include A Century of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (2011, republished in a new edition) and Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century (2010).

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Has Narenda Modi Switched Sides?

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 28 August 2017

Over the past few months, India has changed its attitude abruptly on several issues. It is as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to sabotage his rapprochement with China and Pakistan and to create artificial conflicts. For William Engdhal, this shift would be inspired by Washington and Tel Aviv.

Foreign Bankers Rape Ukraine

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 21 December 2014

If it were not for the fact that the lives of some 45 million people are at stake, Ukrainian national politics could be laughed off as a very sick joke. Any pretenses that the October national elections would bring a semblance of genuine democracy of the sort thousands of ordinary Ukrainians (…)

Hungary’s Viktor Orban: Washington’s New Enemy Image

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 23 November 2014

The refusal of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz party to join the new US and EU Cold War against Russia, notably by agreeing to build the South Stream gas pipeline, in addition to the stinging policies adopted against the foreign owned banks and energy companies, has set off (…)

Has Washington Just Shot Itself in the Oily Foot?

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 6 November 2014

By organizing in Iraq and Syria the first war leading to a decline in oil prices, the Obama administration’s intention was probably to cripple its adversaries’ economies: Russia, Iran and Venezuela. But this policy can have severe unintended consequences in other areas: acceleration of China’s (…)

Libya in anarchy two years after NATO Humanitarian Liberation

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 1 October 2013

In 2011 when Muhammar Qaddafi refused to leave quietly as ruler of Libya, the Obama Administration, hiding behind the skirts of the French, launched a ferocious bombing campaign and a “No Fly” zone over the country to aid the so-called fighters for democracy. The US lied to Russia and China with (…)

Saudi King Backs Egypt Military defying Washington

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 20 August 2013

This website was one of the few to report that the Egyptian military’s forced removal of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi and his entire government was undertaken with the firm secret backing of Saudi Arabia and several Gulf oil states, directly in defiance of Washington’s agenda. Now (…)

Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington over Egypt

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 18 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 (…)

Washington Islamist strategy in crisis as Morsi toppled

by F. William Engdahl

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.

Part II

Boston and the CIA ‘Snafu’: The grey eminence behind Turkey’s Erdogan and the AKP

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 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 (…)

Part I

Graham Fuller, Uncle Ruslan, the CIA and the Boston Bombings

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 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 (…)

Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 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.

America: The New Saudi Arabia?

by F. William Engdahl

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 (…)

Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China

by F. William Engdahl

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 (…)

No Wonder China is Nervous as Obama Pivots

by F. William Engdahl

22 November 2012

The looming confrontation will be even harsher than 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 - (…)

Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War

by F. William Engdahl

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 (…)

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