it's. ten thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines the arab league making a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria demanding president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw his ties from the streets violent clashes between em tyra cian protesters and security forces have so far claimed some thirty some three thousand lives since the under arrest started in march. washington halts funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural agency grants palestinians full membership by a majority vote the move seen by many as a side of growing international support for palestine spending un statehood.

hollowing sharif mainstream media resurrecting a russian spy ring case code named those stories as the f.b.i. releasing footage featuring sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year including from vitale i don't know. who syria now at the epicenter of the arab spring we speak with author and historian f. william engdahl on what or who he thinks is behind uprisings in the middle east and north africa. today we're talking to a forum and all the author of several books among them are gods of mine the wall street and the dearth of american century and he is also a political risk consultant so we're going to discuss several more several of the most burning our political and economic issues in the world today mr engel thank you very much for joining us to be here to start off basically a never never before has the world faced so many and economic and political

problems all at the same time would you say that these conflicts where same today are in terms of your in the dollar situation and what's happening in the northern africa and the middle east do these conflicts feed off each other are they somehow related or not particularly what i see in these conflicts the decision to libya the crisis with the dollar crisis with the american economy and the conduct of american foreign policy in the last period is all part of the breakdown of the entire super power structure that was built up after being the world war two and nobody in washington wants to admit just as nobody in britain a hundred years ago wanted to admit that the british empire was and probably quite all of this is related to the attempt to keep this sole superpower not only intact but to spread its influence over the rest of the of the planet and that. not

surprisingly much of the world is not to be good to see that so would you say that what's happening in the middle in middle east or northern africa right now is basically an attempt are not the behalf of the united states to keep its came up very much so the. plan was first announced by george w. bush when he was president just after the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three at a g eight meeting and it was called the greater middle east project and that project but he published a map of what they had in mind was the control and the. democratization as they call it of the entire islamic world from afghanistan pakistan down through iran syria. the persian gulf area the oil producing states there and across north africa all the way to morocco and the events the so-called arab spring had been planned years back and the instigators of those the so-called spontaneous protests

least twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been. organized to the city was seeing some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in the belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the u.s. state department. this thing has state department and u.s. intelligence all over it. and why why are they doing this well two things in my view one. there is vast wealth in the hands of the leading circles in the early world vast wealth sovereign wealth funds of countries like kuwait to other countries but also just the resources and one of the agendas is to introduce as was done in the soviet union after nine hundred ninety one with the collapse of the soviet union the agenda of i.m.f.

privatization free market economy and so forth so that western banks and financial agencies and corporations could come in and take the plunder the second agenda is militarily in places such as libya or south sudan now the so-called republic of south sudan to militarize those oil sources that are directly strategic to china's future economic growth so this is all about controlling eurasia some things are bigger brzezinski talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in the famous book the grand czeska. and controlling especially russia and china and any potential cohesion of the eurasian countries economically and politically but as a result of. the so-called arab spring what can we honestly say that the middle east and. north african countries which have gone through with their changes have they really become more democratic gyptian tunisian friends of mine say that it's

just the opposite the economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were and the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the reports kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events so all the instigators of the conflicts all turn seem to be you know the united states and maybe some of the european powers that you know look at libya will they be able to restore normality in these countries or is it not even in their interest i don't think give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think what their concern is especially the pentagon whose military control the next step will be in this so-called transitional national council in libya is just to have that proper

government of legal permanent basing rights inside libya something they never had before going to cut off in south sudan some of the defenseless unless they have nato forces in there the african is coordinating this new pentagon's africa command which is. interestingly enough created just after china's on and six africa diplomacy where forty heads of african nations were invited to beijing and enormous deals were signed with the chinese companies for oil exploration to build hospitals give soft loans everything the i.m.f. didn't do in africa in the last thirty years we chinese began doing and it had enormous results for china i know that you have a very interesting opinion of this who would you say pace towards the ways the private united states well you have to go back to the role in the last twenty or thirty years actually began in the eighty's with the role of the dollar as world reserve currency and china has an enormous trade surplus wal-mart is essentially an

outpost of chinese manufacturing in america today so the three hundred billion plus surplus dollars at the central bank of china are massive every year what do you do with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in i suppose in a big could buy gold for their central bank reserves which they are doing by the way but the only place they can invest if they see it right now until very recently is either in dollars or in the euro or. they've got something like three trillion dollars of u.s. dollar treasury bonds or bills as their reserves today so in effect the u.s. would not be able to finance the deficit that they're running. to wage those wars in afghanistan awaits those wars in iraq or in libya unless the chinese were buying u.s. treasury bonds so ironically the chinese are financing wars directly directed against

trying these national interest for energy security or would you say the united states is going to has any sense of resurfacing from the crisis that it's finding and suffering right now the only way as they see it they can they can survive and keep the dollars or instrument wall street i'm talking about is the gods of money and so i call it in my book. is to find new areas of loot so the arab spring is directed against grabbing and privatizing the best wealth of the arab oil world and the old world generally just as the use of the i.m.f. in the former soviet union was consciously designed by wall street and by washington in order to plunder the vast resources of russia and the former soviet union and warsaw pact countries so if the dollar does not retain its superior status do you think there's any likelihood that the euro will retain it or inherit it well one reason that there's this difficulty with greece and these so-called

euro zone weaker economies is that this is part of a kind of a call for financial warfare between the dollar and the euro boys were sort of sick and started when the chinese started complaining publicly about the. flawed economic policy of washington running up deficits and endangering the value of chinese treasury bonds so now. just when that became public. suddenly there was a greek crisis and the greek crisis was put in place in two thousand and two before greece and of the eurozone by none other than goldman sachs the most powerful bank in america arguably today politically well connected in washington so. it's very clear if you follow the money trail that that big. crisis was programmed to be detonated at command by wall street and the us treasury as well as the federal reserve in order to defend the reserve currency role of the us dollar but i don't

see the european economies endangered as the us because one great difference europe still produces things europe still has a real industry which i believe that from going back to at the beginning of our interview we believe that there is some european countries there's probably thought from the situation graveling say in libya right now like france well i was just going to say sarkozy had a meeting in march when the whole drama in libya kicked off he invited leaders of the so-called transitional national council to paris and made them whispered sweet nothings in their ears about having control of the oil resources of eastern libya and poured money weapons and cia and the french intelligence have been pouring arms into these insurgent groups inside libya this is an armed insurrection financed by nato countries and libya it's an old peaceful twitter revolution of a bunch of kids who have a dream of american style democracy or something this is raw power grab by the

french what do you predict or in your opinion what you think will happen in libya now i mean you know that means the troops will have to collide at some point and then right there will be. i imagine in iraq like scenario or afghanistan what do you have in afghanistan you have seventeen permanent u.s. military bases in afghanistan most of them arab nations who are not bombing the taliban and they're preparing for a coming war and perhaps ten years with china or maybe with russia they've got a military bastion and a heart of central asia that's something that they never had to win the cold war. so i think libya's is just one for us about what role do you think process it playing in the in the events which are rattling right now i think russia given the history going back more than more than the cold war era. russia can play a very stabilizing role as a as a counter force to this highly dangerous strategy of the greater middle east project of people with us in that region russia can play

a very important role blocking. something untoward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think china would agree as we do that i'm going to be a face to the u.n. action sanctions action in syria but in more ways than that russia can play a very constructive role i think and in the region to try to counter this these people so. i would hope they do. thank you very much for your time. and. to those who are fascinated with history. to those who have a sweet tooth. to those who can't live without this time. and of course to the nature lovers this magnificent land offers its

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from the streets of canada. showing look for asians to rule the day. the arab league makes a last ditch effort to end the bloodshed in syria demanding president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw tanks from the streets violent clashes between entire the protesters and security forces have claimed some of three thousand lives since our arrest began in march. washington stops funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural agency grants palestinians for membership by a majority vote the move seen by many as a sign of growing international support for palestine in the un statehood bid. and how we treat mainstream media resurrecting our russian spy ring case code name

ghost stories as the f.b.i. releases put it petering sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. live near including the tower in the. unit and joins us now a hard latest from the world of sports and we're coming to the end of the first part of the longest ever and dare i say most complicated russian football season i think i ought to agree with you there yet this year it's a twelve month season instead of the usual eight nine months because we're switching to an autumn spring season we're going to try and get through all the complications in just a minute plus the rest of the choose the morning sport. great to have your company this is sports day we have got plenty ahead for you including this hour continental quests you need simply just vertical on shock to charge home tonight knowing victory would propel the top of the champions league group. capital

gain system law school boost their title credentials this season with their third kontinental hockey league win in four games at the expense of metal or. take your pick we repel fulda strikes that made the difference in the penultimate week of russian premier league action it is going to work. let's begin with the always a need some petersburg are preparing to kick off again week four in the champions league choose these early clash seeing these charges and between ukrainian shocked our russian champions have been riding high in the competition to date already with three more points of the same stage down in their soul previous european cup adventure two years ago victory over porto at the end of september their own joy that highlights no alexander though this evening the russian international striker rules argue with an ankle injury shocked or meanwhile will travel on the part of an

away win in their latest events that fixture against alexandria three two result putting the net side within a point of leaders to. action gets underway at eighteen forty five central europe and. elsewhere in zim each group or two will aim to get back to winning ways when they travel to surprise table toppers awful well of cypress milan barcelona meanwhile will have proved h. supremacy on their minds when they take on box a pleasant respectively the european giants are drawing toff. the standings with seven. over the group will be our for revenge against chelsea the belgians going down five nil last time are against the blues palencia the host in-form fire leverkusen top places arsenal vs second seeded more say is the taking of group while willis brasil are up home. now with only one

game week to play russia's longest football season in history is now on the verge of entering its second phase a competition where the top aides will continue their pursuit of silverware well the bottom half will prepared to fight for their places in next year's premier league for moscow. genome spartak unlocking the teeth together but recent champions need to unroot dean will be challenged by ambitious and angie in the first eight the group will not only determine the winner of the season but also the two champions league on three europa league support for the team for compete on a home run away basis. this same system will be applied to the relegation group competition the sides here preparing to battle for the right to stay in russia's top football division the end the worst shootings will go down automatically the two sides of both them will then have to fight it all right with the third and fourth place teams called the vision which. let's talk in english football where it's a good time to be

a newcastle fun our present the my pie sitting pretty in third place in the premier league following victory away to stoke in monday's only getting them helping himself to help pick up our tommy stadium with jonathan walters netting the home side school mucosal hugs up joint third with chelsea and spurs heading into the game but no trail second seeded munchak united by just eight point they leaders manchester city are also the only on peat inside so far this. brings us to ice hockey where c.s.k. moscow's hopes of a first ever kitchell. and have improved somewhat but the army men beating one of the league's eastern powerhouses nestler magnitogorsk here in the russian capital cost him to top off reports. to sky have won just two missions out of eight against me all when you go ask an occasional and only once on home ice this time the home side produced an electric start in the search for a third wind discussed striking first as we just luckily i mean people read and

lose a hand just a minute seam and minute and a half way notice cost top scorer sergei short of double the early forcing at old to swap goaltenders discouraging start for the visitors and they seemed confused and the house left for the intermission really comfortable to nothing only after some probable had dry treatment from still makers head coach for the county can quit trying to get back into the game but he was serious guy who increased their lead with a power play goal because person was the first in their rounds up to short of spar full slapshot to make it into the goal game with four minutes to go in the second however i mean managed to pull one back early in the decisive period as i'm gone who sent it back home on the counter-attack to make it three one but four minutes late at cisco regained their three goalie pull them in past to be just one of broccoli and the twenty four year old defender made it four one four minutes before the final buzzer mcculloch's and then releasing the revived intrigue cutting the

deficit to two goals in a power play and the visitors put everything on the line and pulled the goalie for next to where but failed to get eyes and a chance is a serious cause a risk is lost on your confidence between the bites short to the final score and you happen to games in a row for that passed out so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last guy did so read in water were happening again and. we battle hardened in a second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and we scored a third goal in powerplay so i think that. you point for a game we came out or. wanted to buy it was successful with. a couple shots to start. to get the ball first goal second goal with this car climbed one line up and now seek peace in the western conference while last season's going cup semi final and maybe i will continue the relatively poor before lunch and stay fief in the. r.t.

now there's a three way tie in the n.f.l. the a.f.c. west after council city paint their rival san diego on monday night the full in charge of the victorious chiefs joined by the oakland raiders or talk the division the chiefs mike castle are firing at the pass to jonathan baldwin for the game's first big score solo rookie marcus gilchrist staying tight spot unable to stop the baldwin touched on the chargers stayed in the game courtesy of nick novak's field goal the game was tight a twenty piece here when a costly fumble by sunday go for by philip rivers late in the fourth set off ryan sucked up for a field goal in overtime thirty yarder ceiling straight down the middle meaning the chiefs take a twenty three twenty win number four for them. now finally not a single game ended goalless this week in the russian premier league as the size prepared to split into eight for the second half of the longest ever domestic

season so let's get a recap of all twenty two strikes that from the back of the net during the penalty meant run and that is more.

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