F. William Engdahl: Gold, China and The Deep State

F. William Engdhal Frederick William Engdahl is an American writer based in Germany. He identifies himself as a “economic researcher, historian and freelance journalist.” Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Engdahl is the son of F. William Engdahl, Sr., and Ruth Aalund. Engdahl grew up in Texas and after earning a degree in engineering and jurisprudence from Princeton University in 1966 and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm from 1969 to 1970, he worked as an economist and freelance journalist in New York and in Europe. On Russia Today, Engdahl stated in an interview that the 2011 Egyptian Revolution was orchestrated by the Pentagon to facilitate Barack Obama‘s Middle East foreign policy and that Egypt had turned to a worse situation since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. According to him, “The ultimate goal of the US is to take the resources of Africa and Middle East under military control to block economic growth in China and Russia, thus taking the whole of Eurasia under control.” He believes that the Arab Spring was a plan “first announced by George W. Bush at a G8 meeting in 2003 and it was called ‘The Greater Middle East Project.'”