F. William Engdahl
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Frederick William Engdahl (August 9, 1944 in Minneapolis)[1] is an American-German freelance journalist, historian and economic researcher.[2]
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[edit] Biography
Engdahl is the son of F. William Engdahl, Sr., and Ruth Aalund (b. Rishoff) and he grew up in Texas. After a degree in engineering and jurisprudence from Princeton University in 1966 (BA) [1] and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm from 1969 to 1970, he worked as an economist and free-lance journalist in New York and in Europe.
Engdahl began writing about oil politics with the first oil shock in the early 1970s.
His first book was called "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", and discusses the role of Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Ball and of the USA in the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran, which was meant to manipulate oil prices and to stop Soviet expansion. Engdahl claims that Brzezinski and Ball used the Islamic Balkanization model proposed by Dr Bernard Lewis. In 2007, he completed "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of GMO".
Engdahl is also a frequent contributor to globalresearch.ca, the main website of the Centre for Research on Globalisation.
William Engdahl has been married since 1987 and has been living near Frankfurt am Main for more than two decades, Germany.[1]
[edit] Confessions of an 'ex' peak oil believer
Engdahl stated in 2007 that he had come to believe 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[3]). Instead he now 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", stating that peak oil is actually a political phenomenon.[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- Power of Money. Rise and Decline of the American Century. 2009 (in press)
- Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. Boxboro, MA: Third Millennium Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0979560866
- Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Agenda of GMO. Centre for Research on Globalization Publishing 2007, ISBN 0973714727
- A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order. London: Pluto 2004, rev. ed., 303 p., ill., ISBN 074532309X
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Who's Who in the World, 15th Edition
- ^ „The Seed Barons. How Big Ag, Big Oil & Big Government Are Hijacking the World’s Food Supply“, Acres U.S.A. A Voice for Eco-Agriculture, June 2008, Vol. 38, No. 6, ISSN 1076-4968
- ^ Glasby, Geoffrey P. (2006). "Abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons: an historical overview" (PDF). Resource Geology 56 (1): 83–96. doi:. http://static.scribd.com/docs/j79lhbgbjbqrb.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
- ^ Engdahl, F. William (September 25, 2007). "Financial Sense Editorial: "Confessions of an 'Ex' Peak Oil Believer" ". http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2007/0925.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-08.
