F. William Engdahl
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Frederick William Engdahl (born 1944) has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. He has contributed regularly to a number of publications, including Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine, Grant's Investor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He has also spoken at numerous international conferences on geopolitical, economic and energy subjects, and is active as a consulting economist.
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[edit] Biography
F. William Engdahl, an economist and writer, is author of the best-selling book[citation needed] on oil and geopolitics, "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", which has been translated into Arabic, Korean, German, Croatian and Turkish. In 2007, he completed "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of GMO".
He has written on issues of political economy, geopolitics, energy, agriculture, WTO, IMF, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock and world grain crisis in the early 1970s. After a degree in politics from Princeton University and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm, he worked as an economist and free-lance journalist in New York and in Europe, covering subjects including the collapse of the USSR, the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis, GATT Uruguay Round trade talks, EU food policies, the grain cartel, IMF policy, Third World debt issues, hedge funds and the political role of derivatives trade.
Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland respectively; Grant's Investor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He is a frequent Contributor to Centre for Research on Globalization, FinancialSense.com and 321Gold.com among other online sites. He has spoken at numerous international conferences on geopolitical, economic, GMO, economic and energy subjects, including a keynote address to the Montreaux Global Investors’ Forum, the Centre for Energy Policy Studies in London, Bank Negara Indonesia in Jakarta, the International Chamber of Commerce in Zagreb and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in Moscow. He currently lives in Germany and in addition to writing regularly on issues of economics, energy and international affairs, is active as a consulting geopolitical risk economist.
In his first book, Engdahl discusses the role of Brzezinski and George Ball and also reveals the role of the USA in the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran to modulate oil prices and to stop the Soviet expansion. William Engdahl discusses how Brzezinski and Ball used the Islamic Balkanization model proposed by Dr Bernard Lewis. Other authors have discussed the greater influence of this strategy in convincing the United States government to support the Mujahaddin and other jihadist fighters in Afghanistan and how this Islamist Balkanization planted the seeds of the Chechen separatist movement which Russia is currently successful in suppressing.
[edit] Confessions Of An 'Ex' Peak Oil Believer
- See also: Abiogenic petroleum origin
Engdahl now believes in the Russian hypothesis that oil is not a "fossil fuel" but is produced underground by unknown materials, conditions and forces deeper down in the Earth's core. He calls himself an "ex peak oil believer". He quotes the absurdity of Dr. J. F. Kenney calculation: "to have produced the amount of oil the Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field has produced would have required a cube of fossilized dinosaur detritus, assuming 100% conversion efficiency, measuring 19 miles deep, wide and high."
[edit] See also
- Baghdad Railway
- Petrodollar warfare
- CIA Activities by Region: Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia#Iran 1980
[edit] References
- Engdahl, F. William: A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, London: Pluto 2004, rev. ed., 303 p., ill., ISBN 074532309X
- Engdahl, F. William: Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Agenda of GMO, Global Research Publishing 2007 (in press)
