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Moscow Reacts to US Buildup in Afghanistan
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 3:43 pm | William Engdahl
Global Research Feature Article www.GlobalResearch.ca Moscow Reacts to US Buildup in Afghanistan by F. William Engdahl Global Research , February 5, 2009 GlobalResearch.ca More >>
The Truth behind Citigroup Bank "Nationalization"
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 9:42 am | William Engdahl
On Friday November 21, the world came within a hair’s breadth of the most colossal financial collapse in history according to bankers on the inside of events with whom we have contact. The trigger was the bank which only two years ago was America’s ... More >>
The Caucasus — Washington Risks nuclear war
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 11:45 am | William Engdahl
GlobalResearch.ca The dramatic military attack by the military of the Republic of Georgia on South Ossetia in the last days has brought the world one major step closer to the ultimate horror of the Cold War era—a thermonuclear war between Russia and ... More >>
F. William Engdahl: Financial Predators Had A Ball
Monday, 25 February 2008, 11:10 am | William Engdahl
The multi-trillion dollar US-centered securitization debacle began to unravel in June 2007 with the liquidity crisis in two hedge funds owned by Bear Stearns, one of the world's largest and most successful investment banks. More >>
F. William Engdahl - The Financial Tsunami Pt. III
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:44 am | William Engdahl
Seven years of Volcker monetary “shock therapy” had ignited a payments crisis across the Third World. Billions of dollars in recycled petrodollar debts loaned by major New York and London banks to finance oil imports after the oil price rises ... More >>
F. William Engdahl - The Financial Tsunami Pt. II
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:43 am | William Engdahl
The ongoing and deepening global financial crisis, nominally triggered in July 2007 by an event involving a small German bank holding securitized assets backed by USA sub-prime real estate mortgages, can best be understood as an essential part of an ... More >>
Myanmar's “Saffron Revolution”
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 11:29 am | William Engdahl
Burma’s “Saffron Revolution,” like the Ukraine “Orange Revolution” or the Georgia “Rose Revolution” and the various Color Revolutions instigated in recent years against strategic states surrounding Russia, is a well-orchestrated ... More >>
War and "Peak Oil"
Friday, 28 September 2007, 2:25 pm | William Engdahl
The good news is that panic scenarios about the world running out of oil anytime soon are wrong. The bad news is that the price of oil is going to continue to rise. Peak Oil is not our problem. Politics is. Big Oil wants to sustain high oil prices. ... More >>
No, The Iran Oil Bourse Is Not A Casus Belli…
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:37 am | William Engdahl
A number of writings have recently appeared with the thesis that the announced plans of the Teheran government to institute a Teheran Oil Bourse, perhaps as early as this month, is the real hidden reason behind the evident march to war on Iran from ... More >>
William Engdahl: Bird Flu & Chicken Factory Farms
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:27 pm | William Engdahl
Clouds can have ‘silver linings’ the adage goes, and Bird Flu seems to be no exception. While much of the world trembles in panic and fear over an as-yet-non-existent human-to-human mutation of the Avian Flu or H5N1 virus, and while most worry what to do to protect ... More >>
Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Indu
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 12:31 am | William Engdahl
On November 1, President George W. Bush went to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to hold a high profile press conference, to announce a 381-page plan, officially called the Pandemic Influenza Strategic Plan . More >>
William Engdahl: Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 2:51 pm | William Engdahl
No sooner are indictments being handed down to Scooter Libby, the Chief of Staff of the Vice President of the United States for lies and coverup of information used deliberately to suppress the fact the Bush Administration had no ‘smoking gun’ to ... More >>