Monsanto Guilty Verdict Is Only Beginning
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By F. William Engdahl
15 August 2018

A jury trial in California has resulted in a guilty verdict against the agrichemical and GMO giant, Monsanto, now Bayer/Monsanto. The judge has ordered Monsanto to pay damages of USD 289 Million to former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His lawyer argued it was caused by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weed-killer Roundup. Not surprisingly Monsanto plans to appeal the verdict. The impact of the ruling, regardless the outcome of the appeal, will unleash worldwide consequences that spell huge problems for the entire GMO agrochemicals business model ... To read further, click here

Washington Has Lured EU into Anti-China Trade Front
By F. William Engdahl
10 August 2018

While many in the EU breathed a sign of relief at the apparent success of the recent Washington trade tariff talks between EU Commission President Juncker and the Trump Administration, in reality it looks more as if Washington has skillfully maneuvered the EU, especially Germany, to close the door on any possible collaboration with China on trade and economic development. While there are problems with Chinese economic policy, the recent developments suggest an EU consensus to turn away from the enormous potentials of the China-based Eurasian economic space in favor of an alliance with the USA and China-hostile Japan against the Chinese development. That could seriously damage the EU economy going forward ... To read further, click here

Why West Fears ‘Made in China: 2025’
By F. William Engdahl
3 August 2018

The Trump administration has made the Chinese industrial transformation strategy, “Made in China: 2025,” or simply China 2025 the explicit target of its current trade war offensive against the Peoples’ Republic. Western industrial leading countries, including Germany, are understandably alarmed. Only they are ten years late, and until now have foolishly refused to collaborate with China in key developments, including of the new economic Silk Road or Belt Road Initiative. Here I want to briefly indicate what China is doing. In future reports I will discuss some fundamental flaws in their industrial strategy. Here it is important to understand what China 2025 signals to Western industrial domination ... To read further, click here

Son of Frankenstein? UK Body Backs Human Embryo Gene Editing
By F. William Engdahl
23 July 2018

Though the announcement is couched in terms that make it seem humanitarian, as potentially a huge advance in science, an agency tied to the British government is encouraging efforts in gene-editing of the DNA of human embryos. It belongs in the category of eugenics. Not surprisingly, the footprints of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller eugenics circles, and major pharma groups as well as GMO seed companies are found here ... To read further, click here

‘De-fanging the Globalist Monster’ with guest F. William Engdahl
One Radio Network - Host: Patrick Timpone

Published time: 17 July, 2018

Mr. Engdahl proposes The Globalist are not trying to get the President out of office as many say. He says Mr. Trump is doing their bidding and never would have got in the White House if he was a true threat to their agenda ... To read further / listen, click here

EU Not Ending Greek Crisis, They End Greece
By F. William Engdahl
13 July 2018

With great fanfare at the end of June, the 19 EU Eurozone finance ministers announced the end to the eight-year-long Greek debt crisis that brought the entire Euro structure into its deepest crisis to date. The exercise is a deep deception. The EU ministers refused to write off any Greek state debt. Instead they did a destructive interest capitalization of the existing debt, similar to what Washington did to Latin America in the 1980’s. What in fact is going on we might justifiably ask ... To read further, click here

Washington’s Latest Myths, Lies and Oil Wars
By F. William Engdahl
6 July 2018

As American motorists complain of rising gasoline prices, the Trump Administration and the oil and banking interests behind it are smiling on their way to the proverbial bank. If we look at seeming disparate events in Iran, in Venezuela and now in Libya it becomes clear there is a coherent strategy to promote disruption in key oil flows to the immediate advantage of US oil domination ... To read further, click here

Only Thing New About Trump Economic Wars Are Tweets
By F. William Engdahl
29 June 2018

The only new part of the ongoing Trump Administration economic warfare, a calculated assault on friend and foe alike from Russia to China to Iran to Venezuela and the EU, via so-called tariff war, is a President who uses Tweets as a weapon to throw opponents off balance. Since at least the beginning of the 1970’s Washington has deployed similar tactics of economic blackmail and destabilization to force what has become a global domination not of US manufactured goods, but rather of the dollar as world reserve currency. For almost five decades, since August 15, 1971, Washington and Wall Street have used their dominant position to force inflated paper dollars on the world, cause financial bubbles and subsequently debt buildup to impossible levels, then collapse ... To read further, click here

Is Gene Editing the New Name for Eugenics?
By F. William Engdahl
22 June 2018

A major new technology known as Gene Editing has gained significant attention in recent months. Its advocates claim it will revolutionize everything from agriculture production to disease treatment. None other than Bill Gates has just come out in an article in the US foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs in praise of the promise of gene editing. Yet a closer investigation suggests that all is not so ideal with Gene Editing. New peer reviewed studies suggest it could cause cancer. The question is whether this technology, which is highly controversial, is little more than a stealth way to introduce GMO genetic manipulation by way of another technique ... To read further, click here

The NED’s Useful Idiots - FW Engdahl's Manifest Destiny

On Friday, June 8, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that ... To read / listen further, click here

Europe Faces Crossroads as Atlantic System Crumbles
By F. William Engdahl
15 June 2018

The world events of the past days are significant far beyond the apparent divide within the G7 industrial nations. If we imagine the planet as a giant electric force field, the lines of flux are in dramatic reordering as the post-1945 global dollar-based system comes to its disordered end phase. Europe’s political elites are currently split between rationality and irrationality. The developments to the East however are drawing more and more force and we are seeing the early phases of what might be called a geopolitical polarity reversal within the EU from West to East. The latest developments across Eurasia including the Middle East, Iran and above all between Russia and China are gaining in importance as Washington offers only war, whether trade war, sanctions war, terror war or kinetic war ... To read further, click here

Brzezinski's Ghost: The Geopolitics of the Trump Administration

National Endowment for Democracy an NGO controlled by the CIA; Reagan Administration guarantees Soviets no movement of NATO eastward in return for peaceful reunification of Germany under NATO; top secret CONPLAN 8022 global strike capability activated June 2004 by Rumsfeld; fake NED and NGO democracy apparatus orchestrates both the Ukraine Orange Color Revolution of 2004 and the Georgian Rose Revolution; Soros Foundation deeply involved in both Ukrainian color revolutions; 2018 Armenian Revolution follows the fake democracy script; US economic sanctions on Russian oligarchs; Trump administration abrogation of 2015 nuclear treaty ... To read / listen further, click here

USA in a Debt Trap Death Spiral
By F. William Engdahl
1 June 2018

The US economy and its financial structures have never recovered from the great financial meltdown of 2008 despite the passage of ten years. Little discussion has been given to the fact that the Republican Congress last year abandoned the process of mandatory budget cuts or automatic sequestration that had been voted in a feeble attempt to rein in the dramatic rise in US government debt. That was merely an added factor in what soon will be recognized as a classic debt trap. What is now looming over not just the US economy but also the global financial system is a crisis that could spell the end of the post-1944 dollar system ... To read further, click here

Austria’s New Coalition Betrays on CETA Trade Agreement
By F. William Engdahl
28 May 2018

US President Trump told the world his government rejects negotiations on the highly controversial TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Citizen groups and EU opponents of the Obama comprehensive trade agreement breathed a sigh of relief. Too little attention has been given to the agreement reached between Canada and CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (German: Umfassendes Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen), sometimes called the Canada-EU Trade Agreement. Secretly and behind any public open discussion, the largest global multinational corporations are moving the world closer to a top-down corporate dictatorship, a 21st Century version of Mussolini’s Corporativism. A major potential roadblock to CETA approval has now fallen in Austria under a new populist coalition government of Sebastian Kurz ... To read further, click here

Episode #234 – ‘Manifest Destiny’ with guests F. William Engdahl
Host: Patrick Henningsen

Published time: 20 May, 2018

Special guest and author F. William Engdahl to discuss his new book, Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance, and how Washington’s NGO Complex is now doing the old job of the CIA and what this means for countries on the Anglo-American target list for regime change and destablization ... To read further / listen, click here

Will Oil End the American Century?
By F. William Engdahl
19 May 2018

The American Century, so triumphantly proclaimed in a 1941 Life magazine editorial by US establishment insider Henry Luce, was built on the control of oil and on an endless succession of wars for that control of global oil. Now, ironically, with the illegal and unilateral cancellation of the Iranian nuclear agreement by the US President, oil may be set to play a key, if unintended, role in the downfall of the global hegemony of that same American Century ... To read further, click here

Brzezinski’s Ghost Shapes Washington Eurasia Geopolitics
By F. William Engdahl
14 May 2018

One of the most outstanding features of a truly standing-out Trump Presidency to date is how precisely the actual policy developments, when we clear away the deliberate smoke and mirrors of tweets and scandal, follow a basic strategy of Washington geopolitics going back to at least 1992. This is the case in the latest unfortunate and quite illegal unilateral decision to leave the Iran nuclear agreement. This is also the case in the relentless Cold War-style demonization campaign against Russia and the deployment of insidious new sanctions. This is also the case with the looming trade war the Trump Administration has initiated with the Peoples’ Republic of China ... To read further, click here

MUST SEE VIDEO: Ever Wonder Why The Left Hates Russia So Much? FULL INTERVIEW
Alex Jones - Infowars

Published time: 8 May, 2018

F. William Engdahl joins Alex Jones live via Skype to give an expert history lesson, and he lays out exactly why the socialist left hates Russia, nationalism, and freedom and wants to destroy them ... To watch on YouTube click here

What’s Washington Really Doing in Armenia?
By F. William Engdahl
3 May 2018

There has been considerable speculation in recent days as to whether the recent and ongoing protests across former Soviet Armenia constitute another Washington Color Revolution destabilization or whether it represents simply the angry revolt of citizens fed up with the deep corruption and lack of economic development under the regime of Prime Minister Serzh Sargysan. Following days of large protests, the former President was forced to resign on April 23, declaring, “Nikol Pashinyan was right. I was wrong.” Armenia is an integral member of Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union and were it to come under control of a pro-NATO opposition could bring a strategic problem for Moscow to put it mildly. The issue is significant ... To read further, click here

Will EU Block China Economic Silk Road?
By F. William Engdahl
26 April 2018

In the clearest sign to date, EU Ambassadors to Beijing have just released a document critical of China’s vast Belt, Road Initiative or New Economic Silk Road infrastructure project. All EU ambassadors excepting Hungary signed off on the paper in a declaration of growing EU opposition to what is arguably the most promising economic project in the past century if not more. The move fits conveniently with the recent Trump Administration targeting of China technology trade as tensions grow ... To read further, click here

William Engdahl Manifest Destiny, Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance
Jay Taylor Media

Published time: 26 April, 2018

William Engdahl says a blood thirsty NATO seeks endless wars and the overthrow of Russia and any other nation that gets in its way of total global domination ... To listen, click here

Washington Using Currency War To Destabilize Iran
By F. William Engdahl
21 April 2018

The neoconservative hawks around the US President, notably new National Security head John Bolton and designated Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are on record that Iran is in Washington’s sights for regime change or at a minimum, economic sanctions and chaos. The rhetoric is not empty. The ground is being laid by US threats to not renew the Iran nuclear agreement in May, a move opposed by the other signatories and a move that would plunge Iran into a deep economic crisis at a time it can ill afford ... To read further, click here

Fake Democracy: How Washington Destroyed Poland and Russia in the 1990s

Published time: 19 April, 2018

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), brainchild of Reagans CIA Director William Casey, designed to function as a public non-governmental organization (NGO), but surreptitiously as an arm of the CIA and State Department to covertly create pro-Washington regimes in strategic parts of the world; the four affiliate organizations of the NED; Soros Foundation; first target Poland; Polish economic shock therapy; John Paul II and Reagan; Solidarnosc; Executive Orders 12333 and EO 13233; 1986 oil price collapse engineered; Operation Hammer; Riggs Bank, Republic Bank and Riggs Valmet SA; Bank Menatep; Russian Oligarchs Kordorkovsky, Abramovich, and Berezovsky; looting of Russia; missing Russian gold; Open Russia; Yeltsin fake coup; Harvard Institute for International Development; Russian voucher plan; Yukos Oil; National Referendum on Privatization; Group of Seven. ... To read / listen further, click here

Fake Democracy:The CIA and their NGOs Target China and Yugoslavia in the 1990s

Published time: 19 April, 2018

Failed CIA attempt to bring down the Communist state apparatus in China; George H.W. Bush’s involvements in China; US influences Chinese economic policy; 1989 student pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square; Albert Einstein Institute; Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation; non-violence as a weapon of warfare; Soros’ Fund for the Reform and Opening of China; Western media report Tiananmen massacres; fake news about a fake massacre; Operation Yellowbird; US considers independent Europe a threat; US strategy for war in the heart of Europe; controlled oil crises create unsustainable Yugoslav IMF debt; 1991 US Foreign Operations Appropriations Act; US funding of fascist organizations; Milosevic tries to prevent break-up of Yugoslavia; Izetbegovic reneges on Lisbon Treaty; Mujahideen terror-war model brought into minority Muslim Bosnia-Herzegovina; Yugoslavia civil war revives the role of NATO in Europe; Nasr Oric; Srebrenica massacre; Operation Deliberate Force against Serbia; Clinton’s 79-day bombing of Belgrade; Milosevic taken down by Otpor!; Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo ... To read / listen further, click here

Interview of William Engdahl by Lars Schall for the Saker blog; introduction by Pepe Escobar
The Saker

Published time: 16 April, 2018

This extensive interview by financial journalist Lars Schall is largely centered on Chapter 3 – The Rape of Russia – of Engdahl’s new book Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance.
Here you will find all you need to know about the genesis of the 1990s Russian oligarchs; the dirty deals of the Yeltsin mafia; everything from the plunder of Soviet gold to the dodgy operations of the elder Bush’s brother; the incredible Yamashita gold story; the “privatization coupon” scam; the way the Harvard mafia run the Russian economy – all the way to Putin’s uphill battle throughout the 2000s to turn Russia into a functioning economy as NATO kept marching east. ... To read / watch further click here

US Gov Backs Dangerous New Genetic Manipulation Approach
By F. William Engdahl
11 April 2018

The Trump Administration is backing a new technology for the genetic manipulation of plants and even animals with no intend to supervise or regulate against possible dangers. If left unchecked, it could open a Pandora’s Box of dangers to human health for generations. Yet very little debate is taking place on this dramatic development. Here are some things to consider ... To read further, click here

Trump China Trade War Has Deeper Agenda
By F. William Engdahl
8 April 2018

Washington’s recent trade actions are aimed foursquare at China, not at the EU or other trade partners. However, the aim is not to reduce China exports to the US. The aim is a fundamental opening up of the Chinese economy to the Washington free market liberal reforms that China has steadfastly resisted. In a sense, it is a new version of the Anglo-American Opium Wars of the 1840s using other means to open China. China’s vision of its economic sovereignty is at direct odds with that of Washington. Because of this Xi Jinping is not about to cave in and Trump’s latest threats of escalation risk a major destabilization of the precarious global financial system ... To read further, click here

From the archive: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
IWJ Productions - Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies (INEAS)
Published time: 28 February, 2018

Hungarian scientist Zsuzsa Bardocs, German Economist F. William Engdahl, British activist Dr. Brian John and Indian scientist Dr. Vandana Shiva discusses Genetically Engineered Food aka GMOs. This video includes a partial list of genetically modified food. Language: English ... To read / watch further click here

Is the Eurozone in a Dead End?
By F. William Engdahl
4 April 2018

It’s remarkable that the Euro and the Eurozone currency grouping hasn’t fallen apart until now. Greece could have done it in 2010 but it was avoided by extraordinary acts of the Euro governments and European Central Bank. Now those actions are coming back to haunt especially Germany who stands poised to become the “sugar daddy” of the debt-bloated southern Euro states such as Italy or Spain. This is one major reason that the anti-Brussels parties that triumphed in recent Italian elections—5-Star and Lega, suddenly dropped talk about leaving the Euro. They are betting that Macron and Markel and their proposed new EU architecture will pull their debt chestnuts out of the fire at expense of German taxpayers. It’s a timebomb ticking ever louder ... To read further, click here

0316 William Engdahl War With Russia Coming? His Book Manifest Destiny
The Kate Dalley show

Published time: 17 March, 2017

A great deal of well substatiated information which anyone can find due to the book's presentation layout, the CIA & NGOs and how destructive they've become... To read / listen further, click here

Opposition Grows to Merkel Macron EU Superstate
By F. William Engdahl
18 March 2018

A predictable process of dis-integration across the European union is underway. It has now gained momentum not only from the elections in Italy where more than two-thirds voted against open borders refugee policies pushed by Brussels. And it comes not only from Austria or the East states such as Hungary and Poland or the new Austrian government. Now opposition to the Berlin-Paris-Brussels “centralist” axis is coming from Holland and a group of northern EU countries. The issue at the heart involves nations who are asserting the sanctity of national sovereignty versus those who want to dissolve borders and create some form of top-down EU Superstate, euphemistically called the “ever closer union.” The conflict will determine the future viability of the entire European Union project. Brexit was only the first crack in the EU edifice ... To read further, click here

Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance - Destroying Nations in the Name of Democracy
The Greanville Post - By F. William Engdahl
14 March 2018

'... the hidden role of Washington-backed NGOs in advancing under the banner of democracy the select taking down of governments not willing to play to the Washington agenda. Over the past thirty years and more Washington intelligence agencies have refined subtle techniques to destroy almost any serious opposition government using NGOs such as NED, Open Society Foundations, Freedom House, Albert Einstein Institution ...' To read further, click here

Putin Is Not Rattling Nuclear Sabers – It’s Real
By F. William Engdahl
6 March 2018

The annual speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 1 to the Russian Federal Assembly, televised to the nation, contained a section on Russian military cutting edge technologies that NATO-friendly media chose to either downplay as a propaganda ploy or an election campaign stunt. Given the hints of Russian military technology developments unveiled in the Syrian war theater since September 2015, Washington ignores what is clearly a strategic game-breaking development and makes all the hundreds of billions of dollars of so-called US missile defense technology being deployed from South Korea, Japan, Poland and beyond into little more than a Pentagon defense boondoggle ... To read further, click here

An Email Exchange Between F William Engdahl & Jeff J Brown
China Rising Radio Sinoland

Published time: 6 March, 2018

The start is William’s short email to me. I sat down to write a few lines and seven hours later, voilà. I realized it ended up being a great article, so I emailed William to get his permission to turn it into an “email exchange” between the two of us. He kindly agreed, so enjoy ... To read / listen further, click here

Latvia Bank Killing – Washington Financial Warfare on Russia
By F. William Engdahl
3 March 2018

Washington has begun a new phase in its geopolitical financial warfare in the small Baltic republic of Latvia. Within days it managed to force the Latvian government and the European Central Bank to force the dissolution of Latvia’s third largest bank without even a hint of a legal process. Whatever the true relation of Latvia’s ABLV Bank AS to money laundering, to North Korea or to Russia, the Washington move can be seen as an ominous precedent for a next phase of blackmail on the financial structures of the European Union or other foreign states not singing the preferred Washington tune ... To read further, click here

Hungary New NGO Bill Aims to ‘Stop Soros’
By F. William Engdahl
22 February 2018

The Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has presented a series of proposed laws that would address the operations of foreign-funded NGO’s which support immigration. The new legislative proposals have come under heavy attack from organizations such as the UN as well as from the George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch. It’s important to look more closely at what the proposed legislation would do in contrast to what many media are charging. The issue of human refugee flows and how EU nations are allowed to deal with this is the defining issue that will shape the very future notion of Europe. Some actors in this play including the billionaire hedge fund speculator Soros are apparently not being fully honest about their agenda ... To read further, click here

Will Lebanon Be the Next Energy War?
By F. William Engdahl
14 February 2018

A new geopolitical confrontation is shaping up in the Middle East, and not only between Israel and Syria or Iran. Like most conflicts there, it involves a fight for hydrocarbon resources—oil and gas. The new focus is a dispute between Israel and Lebanon over the precise demarcation of the Exclusive Economic Zone between the two countries. The prime actors at present, in addition to the governments of Israel and Lebanon include Russia, the Lebanese Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and the US in the shadows. The latest Israeli attacks on alleged Iranian bases or Hezbollah camps inside Syria are closely tied to the Israeli aim to prevent a land link from Iran through Syria to the Hezbollah home-base infrastructure in Lebanon. The whole situation has the potential to lead to an ugly wider war nobody wants, at least almost nobody ... To read further, click here

Why Dollar Hegemony May Be Nearing Its End
Jay Taylor Media

Published time: 14 February, 2018

William Engdahl discusses the rising economic status of China, Russia, India and other “rogue” nations and why they are now a threat to the U.S. dollar ... To read / listen further, click here

Europe’s Energy Geopolitics is Getting Dicey
By F. William Engdahl
9 February 2018

Europe’s energy geopolitics and the security of EU energy supplies is getting very dicey as in contentious. The latest developments revolve around who will be the major suppliers of natural gas to the EU markets going forward. The major actors in the growing fight for market in what is one of the world’s largest natural gas markets, the EU, include Russia, Norway, Azerbaijan, Qatar and most recently the USA with shale gas in LNG tankers. Into this mix Holland, since the 1960’s a major supplier of EU gas, has just decided to severely limit production from its largest gas field ... To read further, click here

Washington Quad Alliance Targets China
By F. William Engdahl
2 February 2018

The pressure is escalating against the development of China as a global factor. At the same time the Pentagon released its 2018 US National Security Strategy paper explicitly targeting Russia and China as prime USA strategic threat overshadowing that from international terrorism, India, a member of a new alliance fostered recently by Washington to target China, hosted the third international Raisina Dialogue conference. The primary theme was China as “disruptor” power in the world and what to do about that ... To read further, click here

Will China BRI Cause East West Rupture in EU?
By F. William Engdahl
29 January 2018

On 27 November Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, already at odds with the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union over his insistence on the right to decide whether Brussels or national elected governments shall be allowed to become citizens in Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis, waved another red flag, this potentially a future game-changer for the EU as it exists today. Orbanhosted the 6th annual meeting of the China- Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) “16+1” summit in Budapest with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang. The event got barely a mention in western mainstream media despite the fact that it may have set the seeds for a divide within the EU within the coming months between a French-German-dominated federal EU run by Brussels and a more free, nation-based EU on the model of Hungary, Austria, Poland, the Czech republic and other east members of the EU ... To read further, click here

Israel, Syria, Migrant Crisis & WW3
TradCatKnight Radio

Published time: 26 January, 2018

New pentagon national security program, China, Russia, crypt-currencies, Austria's Kurz, what is really going on in Syria?, Netanyahu's oil agenda in the Golan Heights, latest on Trump and Davos, the latest from Kiev and MUCH more ... To read / watch further click here

Breaking Away from the Tyranny of the Dollar System
Rory - The Daily Coin - Interviews F. William Engdahl

Published time: 28 January, 2018

What is happening in Europe and with the Silk Road Initiative. German policy to accept one million immigrants per annum. US Dollar and Euro working in tandem have financially enslaved millions. China and Russia have moved away from the US dollar in global trade settlement. Belt and Road initiative which will not use the US Dollar either saving the world from or sparking a nuclear war ... To listen / read further, click here

Washington New Defense Strategy: Keep Russia, China Down
By F. William Engdahl
24 January 2018

One thing can be said about the new Pentagon National Defense Strategy document just released under the name of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It is honest about what the target of US military policy is going forward. Washington military policy is explicitly aimed to keep China and Russia from developing any alternative counter-pole to unchallenged US military and political supremacy. The new document lays this out in no uncertain terms. The details are notable and show the disarray that is Washington today, as its once-firm grip on world power disintegrates ... To read further, click here

The Refugee Dilemma–Germany Plays Economic Chicken with Central Europe
By F. William Engdahl
21 January 2018

The German social democrat and conservative parties have finally agreed in a rotten compromise to form yet another not-so-grand coalition with the increasingly unpopular Angela Merkel as Chancellor. With this, it’s clear that Berlin is on automatic pilot in regard to such divisive policies as accepting hundreds of thousands of new refugees from southern hemisphere war zones such as Libya or Syria. In stark contrast to Berlin’s open policy, four countries in Central Europe—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia—are steadfast in their refusal and rejection of the Brussels-mandated compulsory refugee policies and are rallying more open support across the EU for more national self-determination. In this not all levers of power lie in Berlin ... To read further, click here

Is Trump Afghan Policy Aimed at Taliban or at China?
By F. William Engdahl
12 January 2018

In recent months the US President has reversed yet another campaign pledge to pull out of Afghanistan, America’s longest war, and instead has begun to deploy an added 3,000 troops there. At the same time he has lashed out at the government of Pakistan accusing it of aiding the Afghan Taliban and pledging to cut all US military aid to that country as reprisal. A deeper view into the situation suggests that both moves are linked and have to do with not the Taliban and the Afghan terrorists. It has very much to do with ongoing developments of peaceful construction of the Chinese-led Belt, Road Initiative and desperate attempts of Washington to try to stop those developments using other pretexts ... To read further, click here

Major Beijing BRI Security Fiasco Emerging
By F. William Engdahl
4 January 2018

A major security fiasco involving a major China state company and a Hong Kong-based corporate security company is emerging. It could potentially open up the massive Eurasian project of China, its Belt, Road Initiative (BRI), to major covert sabotage directed out of Langley Virginia CIA headquarters and carried out by a “Trojan Horse” the Chinese have hired to train their personnel to protect the high-speed Eurasian rail and deep water ports infrastructure from sabotage and terror attacks. The Hong Kong company is owned by Erik Prince, notorious founder of Blackwater Security ... To read further, click here