F. William Engdahl

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.

Biography

Engdahl, an economist and writer, is author of the best-selling bookFact|date=March 2008 on oil and geopolitics, "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", which has been translated into French, Russian, 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, World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (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, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (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 Zbigniew 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 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.

Confessions of an 'ex' peak oil believer

Engdahl now believes that petroleum is not produced from remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae, which had settled to a sea or lake bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions (the theory supported by physical evidence as well as the majority of petroleum geologists and engineers). [ cite journal
last= Glasby
first=Geoffrey P.
date=2006
title= Abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons: an historical overview
journal= Resource Geology
volume=56
issue=1
pages=83–96
url=http://static.scribd.com/docs/j79lhbgbjbqrb.pdf
format=PDF
accessdate=2008-02-17 ] Instead he believes in the hypothesis that petroleum is produced underground by unknown materials, conditions and forces deeper down in the Earth's core. Engdahl calls himself an "ex peak oil believer". [ [http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2007/0925.html Financial Sense Editorial "Confessions of an 'Ex' Peak Oil Believer" by F. William Engdahl 09/25/2007 ] ]

See also

*Baghdad Railway
*Petrodollar warfare
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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)

External links

* [http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/ F. William Engdahl's Official site]
* [http://abridge.me.uk/doku.php?id=a_century_of_war Abridgement of "A Century of War"]