Frederick William Engdahl (born August 9, 1944) is an American writer based in Germany. He identifies himself as an "economic researcher, historian and freelance journalist."^[1]

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Frederick William Engdahl
Born	(1944-08-09) August 9, 1944 (age 79) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Writer
Website	williamengdahl.com

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Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Engdahl is the son of F. William Engdahl Sr., and Ruth Aalund (b. Rishoff). Engdahl grew up in Texas and earned a degree in politics from Princeton University in 1966 (BA) followed by graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm from 1969 to 1970. He then worked as an economist and freelance journalist in New York and in Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Engdahl began writing about oil politics with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. He has also been a long-time associate of the LaRouche movement and served as an economics editor for LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review.^[2][3]

His first book, entitled A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, discusses the alleged roles 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 says that Brzezinski and Ball used the Islamic Balkanization model proposed by Bernard Lewis. In 2007, he completed Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, in which he criticized Monsanto's strategy with GMO seeds, such as Roundup Ready soybeans. He has also written for newsmagazines such as the Asia Times.

Engdahl is a contributor to the Global Research website of the conspiracist Centre for Research on Globalization, the Russian website New Eastern Outlook,^[4] and Veterans Today (on whose advisory board he sits).^[5] He is a regular contributor to RT (formerly Russia Today) and Voice of Russia.^[6][7] He is on the scientific committee of the journals Geopolitica, alongside Michel Chossudovsky and others,^[8] and Eurasia, alongside Aleksandr Dugin and others.^[9] He was a keynote speaker at the conference "Geopolitics of Multipolarity", held at Moscow State University in 2011, alongside Dugin.^[10]

William Engdahl has been married since 1987 and has been living for more than two decades near Frankfurt am Main, Germany.^{[citation needed]}

• A Classical KGB Disinformation Campaign: Who Killed Olof Palme?, with Goran Haglund, William Jones, and Paolo Serri. EIR Special Report (1986).
• A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order. London: Pluto (2004), revised ed. ISBN 074532309X; Progressive Press (2012). ISBN 1615774920.
• Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation. Centre for Research on Globalization (2007). ISBN 0973714727.
• Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. Boxboro, Mass.: Third Millennium Press (2009). ISBN 978-0979560866; Progressive Press (2011). ISBN 1615776540.
• Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century. Wiesbaden: edition.engdahl (2010). ISBN 978-3981326314; Progressive Press (2011). ISBN 1615778055.
• Myths, Lies and Oil Wars. Wiesbaden: edition.engdahl (2012). ISBN 978-3981326369.
• Target: China -- How Washington and Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon. San Diego, Calif.: Progressive Press (2014). German and Chinese editions (2013).
• The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy. Wiesbaden: mine.books (2016).
• Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance. Wiesbaden: mine.books (2018). ISBN 978-3981723731.

• Seeds of Destruction: Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation