BioF William Engdahl is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order." Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. 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. He is based in Germany. Comments from Registered Members | (Register or log in to make your comment.) | sunrise 2009-07-10
Today, CFR has thousands of influential members (including important ones in the corporate media) but keeps a low public profile, especially regarding its real agenda.Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called it a "front organization (for) the heart of the American Establishment." It meets privately and only publishes what it wishes the public to know. Its members are only Americans.It advocates a global superstate with America and other nations sacrificing their sovereignty to a central power. CFR founder Paul Warburg was a member of Roosevelt's "brain trust." In 1950, his son, James, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent." | sunrise 2009-07-10
using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on "world citizens;"expanding NAFTA and WTO globally; making NATO a world military; imposing a universal legal system; and a global "welfare state where obedient slaves will be rewarded and non-conformists targeted for extermination." Secret Bilderberg Partners In the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dominant. One of its 1921 founders, Edward Mandell House, was Woodrow Wilson's chief advisor and rumored at the time to be the nation's real power from 1913 - 1921. On his watch, the Federal Reserve Act passed in December 1913 giving money creation power to bankers, and the 16th Amendment was ratified in February creating the federal income tax to provide a revenue stream to pay for government debt service. From its beginnings, CFR was committed to "a one-world government based on a centralized global financing system...." Today, CFR has thousands of influential members (including important ones in the | sunrise 2009-07-10
Bilderberg Objectives The Group's grand design is for "a One World government (World Company) with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and financially regulated by one 'World (Central) Bank' using one global currency." Their "wish list" includes: "one international identify (observing) one set of universal values;" • centralized control of world populations by "mind control;" in other words, controlling world public opinion; • a New World Order with no middle class, only "rulers and servants (serfs)," and, of course, no democracy; • "a zero-growth society" without prosperity or progress, only greater wealth and power for the rulers; • manufactured crises and perpetual wars; • absolute control of education to program the public mind and train those chosen for various roles; • "centralized control of all foreign and domestic policies;" one size fits all globally; • using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on "wor | sunrise 2009-07-10
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The Bilderberg Group want to supplant individual nation-state sovereignty with an all-powerful global government, corporate controlled, and check-mated by militarized enforcement.1992 Bilderberg Group meeting, Henry Kissinger said: "Today, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil....individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government." | dart 2009-07-08
In terms of global history China and India have dominated trade and manufacturing far longer than the european/american nations.Hence the western persuit of oriental goods for centuries with little to offer in return and the brutal imperial enforcement of `free trade` applied by the British and other european states resulting in the destruction of cultures and deliberate blocking of technology transfer and industrial growth. China can add 500 billion USD annually to is reserves with diminished US/Western imports just as the UK was able to build gold reserves with its mercantilism.On cue China is building a navy while it protests financing US encirclement which is preparing FEMA holding camps for dissenters and those stupid enough to think america has a democracy.(if goods do not cross borders troops will.)The criminal cabal running the US are throwing away the only chance the world has to create model nation fit for man.The republic has not survived as intended.
| AJ Smith 2009-07-07
wehl3318, time to get out of your pollyanna fantasy world. After WWII, the US still had a strong industrial base, and other people bought things from us, thus we could pay down the debt/deficit. Not the case today. Nor will they buy the phony "securities" and other trash that Wall St. is still hawking. The large banks are zombies. The general public was not burdened with debt and bad mortgages like today. The macro-economics are entirely different now than after WWII, and much worse for the US.
| gegenwarst 2009-07-06
American Hegemony is already OVER; to the disappointment of the brute and ignorant American populace this is the Chinese Century, and the emerging superpower is just waiting for right event that will facilitate the PLA to take over the world. America's military industrial complex is financed by China and in return., defense industries share all their classified technologies withe this Asian giant. United States of America is already condemned to become a protectorate of China: People's Republic of America (China will resettle 40% of its entire population in the North American continent, you like it or not...GAME OVER). | wehl3318 2009-07-06
As a fraction of total GDP our national debt is still below post WWII levels. The amount of debt we are in is very very sad, but lets not run for the hills just yet. After all if we think the sky is falling when things realy aren't that bad, how will we think when things are pretty good. Good decisions are never made by the mind that can only focus on the good or only on the bad. | Quinterius 2009-07-06
It is unfortunate that Paul Jay often says to an interviewee "Let's continue our discussion in the second part of this interview," when there is no second part. Sometimes the second part is posted later and sometimes it is never posted. I would suggest that multi-part interviews all be posted at the same time. Thanks. | global_commoner 2009-07-06
Mr Engdahl's comments seem quite relevant - this empire, founded upon military intervention & corrupt economic/monetary policies, cannot continue forever.
But those who are aware of this reality must be wondering: Are there any promising solutions out there? Any chances for establishing true international cooperation that could lead to unprecedented global action to stabilize our currency crisis...to improve trade justice...to end extreme poverty and save those dying from hunger and lack of resources that G-8 nations waste in excess?
The answer is yes!
An example of encouraging, intelligent voices: James Quilligan is director of the Center for Global Negotiations and has worked with a number of significant leaders over the last few decades (including Willy Brandt) in areas like international finance and economic development.
He points to a number of very promising developments that most people are not aware of. They indicate there is a counter-trend toward progress and | sevenahm 2009-07-06
I don't hear many pundits stating the harsh reality -- that we are only at the beginning of the economic free-fall and it's going to be worse than the Great Depression. Great piece, I want to read the book. | DJ2008 2009-07-06
Amazing and rare further insights from William Engdahl out of Germany. His information ties together so much that's going on the world that one wishes to throw their television set out the 5th story window... | sonobono 2009-07-06
Brilliant; please interview Engdahl more frequently. |
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay, coming to you from Washington, DC. And joining us from Frankfurt, Germany, is William Engdahl, author of the new book that's now available in many places, including Amazon.com, which in fact you'll be able to buy through the The Real News, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. Thanks for joining us, William. WILLIAM ENGDAHL, ECONOMIST AND AUTHOR: Thank you, Paul.JAY: So, first of all, talk about the meaning of the title.ENGDAHL: Well, the title, Full Spectrum Dominance, is Pentagonese for the basic military doctrine in the era of the post-Cold War, since 1990. The idea is that the United States' military power projection will control the oceans, control the land areas of this planet, will control space, outer space and cyberspace—in other words, control everything on the face of the earth. And the idea of totalitarian democracy, one of the weapons in the Pentagon arsenal has been and is very much so today the idea of fomenting various RAND Corporation techniques for internal destabilization and regime change. Some people call them the "color revolutions", such as you had in Ukraine in 2004 or in the Republic of Georgia. You had an attempt on that in Moldova, a country where most people in the West never even could find on a map. But you've had these attempts to destabilize. And there's a pattern to this in the entire post-Cold War period. And the idea is, for the Pentagon, for the Washington military-industry complex, the Cold War never ended. The objective is to, as Brzezinski said in his 1997 book The Grande Chess Game, the objective of United States power projection is to prevent the cohesion of economic powers throughout Eurasia, that is, Russia, China, the Central Asian countries, the Middle East oil-producing countries, that would have enough raw material resources, enough population, enough scientific know-how to be independent of the domination of the United States. And that would essentially mean the end of the American hegemony of the post-1945 era. So totalitarian democracy is the Pentagon template for creating pseudo-democratic revolutions, quote-unquote "democratic" in the sense that the Greek oligarchs used the term "democracy" as a mob rule against their opponents, inciting the mobs to topple their rivals. And what in fact is created, as you see in the case of Georgia under Saakashvili, the darling boy of Washington after 2004, here you have a thug who's every bit as dictatorial as Shevardnadze was, this post-communist president of Georgia, but he's Washington's thug, he's Washington's dictator. And that's the template of totalitarian democracy: to create this full-spectrum dominance.JAY: So, William, talk a bit, then, about how this works now. Iran, it's links between Russia and China are getting closer. You have Russia and China talking about possible other alternatives to the US dollar as a global currency. You have tremendous vying taking place over control of energy reserves within this full-spectrum dominance position of the Pentagon, and to some extent, I guess, US policy foreign policy accompanies that. What are the other powers doing?ENGDAHL: Well, what's the most interesting development is what's going on in the continent of Eurasia that extends from Europe all the way to the Pacific—China and parts of Russia. And what's been going on over the last 4 to 5 years has been a cohesion of kind of the natural economic partners of that land space. And this is really the geopolitical nightmare that's been the focus of the British geopolitics since it was created by Halford Mackinder in 1904, and has been the focus of US geopolitics since 1945. People like Henry Kissinger, people like to give Brzezinski, leading foreign-policy strategists are all students of the doctrines of Halford Mackinder, and that is, namely, US hegemony in the world is dependent on divide-and-conquer, preventing any cohesion on Eurasia. Iran plays a very, very critical part in that growing cohesion between Russia and China, formerly cold-Cold War opponents after the 1960s who are now realizing that they have every interest in finding ways of peaceful collaboration rather than antipathy, given the fact that the United States, the prevailing hegemon right now, is crumbling in an ocean of debt and bankruptcy.JAY: And to a large extent debt to exactly these countries, particularly China.ENGDAHL: Well, especially Russia is the fourth-largest holder of dollar foreign reserves still today, over $400 billion. And China is far and away the largest holder of US dollar reserves in its central bank coffers, more than $1 trillion. And the president of China in recent months has done something for China very unprecedented. He told President Obama, and the prime minister as well, that China is very concerned about the potential weakness of their dollar loans, the fact that they are looking more and more vulnerable. So a US federal deficit of $1.85 or $2 trillion this fiscal year is just off the charts. And the point hasn't gone by the attention of countries like China and Russia and, of course, the Shanghai Cooperation countries.JAY: And it must make it difficult for the Shanghai Cooperation countries, particularly China and Russia. They want to kind of balance US power. On the other hand, they're totally enmeshed in a global finance system with the US as the manager of the system. If the US economy really tanks, all of these house of cards come with it, don't they?ENGDAHL: Not quite, and that's what's interesting about what's been going on since the outbreak of the crisis in August of 2007, with the subprime elements of the US. What's been going on has been rather quietly but very effectively, typically, Chinese way that the government has been building economic bridges to countries on its borders in South Asia, countries where the infrastructure had been neglected. They're building up its economic links with ASEAN countries in their own region. As well, they're trying to strengthen links with Kazakhstan, which is rich in oil and natural gas; with Russia; and also with Iran and other countries in the Middle East, to say nothing of Africa. So I think what they're positioning themselves for is to have all options open, but with an eye to the fact that the dollar system is sinking like the proverbial Titanic and that there's not much they can do, certainly nothing they can do to save it, should they even want to save it. But then they have to look out for their own future economic well-being, their national economic security.JAY: So this issue of collaborating and contending, they want to push back on US dominance. But certainly it's not in their interest to see some of the American economy completely burned, both in terms of as a market and they're enmeshed in US dollars. They need to do what they can, don't they, to help the US tried to stabilize this?ENGDAHL: That's the problem, the last part. What they can is very, very limited. The US economy is going—and I've said this before on Real News, as you know, Paul. US economy is going to go through ten years of hell at least. It's going to go through a Great Depression, tragically far worse than the 1930s, despite the so-called stabilizers of Social Security and unemployment insurance. Already, states like California are going through pure hell economically and in terms of employment, and that's preprogrammed to get worse. There is nothing China could do, short of committing national economic suicide, along with the other countries of the world, including the European Union, to save that dollar-indebted system. The US is in classic debt trap of its own making. So the point becomes: what do we do to survive? You know, you throw a life raft to the Titanic to let a few passengers escape, but the Titanic has a hole blown through it called the Wall Street securitization boondoggle that Alan Greenspan and, later, Bernanke actually did everything in their powers, together with Tim Geithner and Larry Summers, to create and support.JAY: So in the next segment of our interview let's talk about Iran, what's been going on the last few weeks, the election, and Iran both in the terms of the geopolitics and Iran in terms of its own internal contradictions. Please join us for the next segment of our interview with William Engdahl.DISCLAIMER:Please note that TRNN transcripts are typed from a recording of the program; The Real News Network cannot guarantee their complete accuracy. |
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