William Engdahl

William Engdahl is the author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.

He was interviewed in early July 2009 by the promising new independent news service: the Real News Network.

This wide-ranging interview is recommended viewing.

Full Spectrum Dominance was published by Third Millennium Press in May 2009. The book summary explains (emphasis added):

For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below the radar,’ they created a global network of military bases and conflicts to advance the long-term goal of Full Spectrum Dominance. Methods included control of propaganda, use of NGOs for regime change, Color Revolutions to advance NATO eastwards, and a vast array of psychological and economic warfare techniques. They even used ‘save the gorilla’ organizations in Africa to secretly run arms in to create wars for raw materials. It was all part of a Revolution in Military Affairs, as they termed it. The events of September 11, 2001 would allow an American President to declare a worldwide War on Terror, on an enemy who was everywhere, and nowhere. 9/11 justified the Patriot Act, the very act that destroyed Americans’ Constitutional freedoms in the name of security. This book gives a disturbing look at the strategy of Full Spectrum Dominance, at what is behind a strategy that could lead us into a horrific nuclear war in the very near future, and at the very least, to a world at continuous war.

William Engdahl has written extensively on geopolitics and global economics over several decades, beginning with a look at the first ‘oil shock’ in the 1970s. He has unorthodox views on subject s as diverse as GMOs and the origins of oil. Engdahl also shares the view that well-connected factions within the west orchestrated the fall of the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s.

He is pessimistic about the prospects for a prompt American economic recovery.