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Frederick William Engdahl | |
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| Born | (1944-08-09)August 9, 1944 (age 81) Minneapolis,Minnesota, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | williamengdahl.com |
Frederick William Engdahl (born August 9, 1944) is an American writer based inGermany. He identifies himself as an "economic researcher, historian and freelance journalist."[1] He is known for his views that theSeptember 11 attacks, theArab Spring and the theory ofglobal warming are all conspiracies.[2][3][4] He has written extensively for theLaRouche movement,Russia Today andGlobalResearch.[4][3]
Born inMinneapolis,Minnesota, United States, Engdahl is the son of F. William Engdahl Sr., and Ruth Aalund (b. Rishoff). Engdahl grew up inTexas and earned a degree in politics fromPrinceton University in 1966 (BA) followed by graduate study in comparative economics at theStockholm University from 1969 to 1970. He then worked as an economist and freelance journalist in New York and in Europe.[citation needed]
Engdahl began writing aboutoil politics with thefirst oil shock in the early 1970s. He has also been a long-time associate of theLaRouche movement and served as an economics editor for LaRouche'sExecutive Intelligence Review.[5][6]
His first book, entitledA Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, discusses the alleged roles ofZbigniew Brzezinski andGeorge Ball andof the USA in the1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran, which was meant to manipulate oil prices and to stop Soviet expansion. Engdahl says that Brzezinski and Ball used the IslamicBalkanization model proposed byBernard Lewis. In 2007, he completedSeeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, in which he criticizedMonsanto's strategy with GMO seeds, such asRoundup Ready soybeans. He has also written for newsmagazines such as theAsia Times.
Engdahl is a contributor to the Global Research website of the conspiracistCentre for Research on Globalization, the Russian websiteNew Eastern Outlook,[7] andVeterans Today (on whose advisory board he sits).[8] He is a regular contributor toRT (formerly Russia Today) andVoice of Russia.[9][10][4] He is on the scientific committee of the magazinesGeopolitica,[11][12] and the far-right journalEurasia, alongsideAleksandr Dugin and others.[13][14] He was a keynote speaker at the conference "Geopolitics of Multipolarity", held atMoscow State University in 2011, alongside Dugin.[15][16]
William Engdahl has been married since 1987 and has been living for more than two decades nearFrankfurt am Main, Germany.[citation needed]
Engdahl has written of the alleged secret power of Jewish financiers such asGeorge Soros and theRothschilds. Author Michael Wohlraich describes Engdahl as the first US populariser of Soros conspiracy theories, noting that he wrote in theExecutive Intelligence Review in 1996 that "The most important of such 'Jews who are not Jews,' are the Rothschilds, who launched Soros’s career. Soros is American only in his passport."[17][18] This has been described by the anti-fascist groupUnicorn Riot as "an example of the anti-Semitic "rootless cosmopolitan" trope.[6] Similarly, historianIvan Kalmar writes that it is "not clear where the Soros Myth began... A likely candidate for the dubious honour of originating it is theExecutive Intelligence Review (EIR)... An article [written by Engdahl] in the 1 November 1996 edition accuses the financier of manipulating the world’s finances in partnership with the Rothschilds, who ‘launched Soros’s career’".[19]
In 2008, Engdahl alleged in GlobalResearch that the2008 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule was engineered by the Soros family and US government - "the American government, specifically the US State Department, theNational Endowment for Democracy (NED), the ‘CIA'sFreedom House’ and theTrace Foundation, run byAndrea Soros Colombel, daughter of the financier George Soros, orchestrated an ‘ultra-high risk geopolitical game with Beijing by fanning the flames of violence in Tibet’ through Tibetan NGOs in exile" - an analysis taken up by Chinese media but derided as "‘insinuations’ and ‘simplistic arguments based on “guilt by association”'" by Tibet expertTsering Shakya.[20][2] Engdahl also alleged that theEuromaidan uprising inUkraine was the well-orchestrated work of a US-funded organization with its origins in Belgrade.[14]
Engdahl stated in 2007 that he had come to believe thatpetroleum is of geological origin, a view contrary to the scientific understanding that it is of biological origin.[21] He believes oil to be produced from carbon, by forces of heat and pressure deep underground. Engdahl calls himself an "expeak oil believer", stating that peak oil is actually a political phenomenon known aspetrodollar warfare.[22][non-primary source needed]
Engdahl argued in 2009 that the problem of global warming is much exaggerated.[23] He claims thatglobal warming is merely a "scare" and a "thinly veiled attempt to misuse climate to argue for a newMalthusian reduction of living standards for the majority of the world while a tiny elite gains more power."[23][non-primary source needed]
A 2010 article by Engdahl, published by websites includingPrison Planet andVoltaire Network and later cited byRobert F. Kennedy Jr. andAlex Jones, was key to the spread of conspiracy theories aboutBill Gates promoting vaccines as part of a secret programme to control population: "it avers that Gates,Buffett, andTurner are driving a ‘GlobalEugenics agenda,’ while Gates himself ‘expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth.’"[24]
According to Engdahl in 2014, the ultimate goal of the US is to take the resources ofAfrica and Middle East under military control to block economic growth in China and Russia.[25][non-primary source needed]
Engdahl believes that theCIA is behind several historical revolutions, including theoverthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the2011 Egyptian revolution.[4] In 2016 an article by Engdahl circulated widely inTurkey which alleged that the2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt was engineered byZbigniew Brzezinski, based on an article in by Brzezinki supposedly published inThe National Interest but in fact fabricated by Engdahl.[3][26]Al-Monitor described how in August 2016 Engdahl told a right-wing Russian think tank that "Former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council of the CIA,Graham E. Fuller, was onPrinces' Islands, 20 minutes fromIstanbul, the entire night of thecoup, monitoring developments until the coup collapsed" - when in fact Fuller was in Washington.Al-Monitor describe Engdahl's intervention as part of a collaborative Russian-Turkish disinformation campaign.[27]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)William Engdahl, 'Why Washington plays "Tibet roulette" with China', China Daily, (16 April 2008). This article was originally posted on the website of the Canadian Think Tank 'Centre for Research on Globalisation' (CRG). Immediately, it was splashed all over the Chinese media. Well-known Chinese journalistChing Cheong peddled this argument, almost verbatim in: Ching Cheong, 'The crimson revolution's true colours', Straits Times, (22 April 2008). Engdahl's original piece has since been taken off both his personal and CRG websites, possibly due to Tsering Shakya's detailed refutation in: Tsering Shakya, 'The gulf between Tibet and its exiles', Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), (2 May 2008).
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