ok now with syria at the epicenter of the arab spring we talked to author and historian ed williams and on what or who he thinks could be behind the uprisings in the middle east and north africa the discussion is coming your way right now. today we're talking to a forum and all the author of several books among them are gods of money wall street and the death 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 economic and political problems all at the same time would you say that these conflicts which we're seeing today in terms of here in the dollar situation and what's happening in northern africa and

in the middle east do these conflicts feed off each other are they somehow related or not particularly what are all these conflicts the decision to bomb 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 a breakdown of an entire super power structure that was built up after the end of 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 in terminal decline 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 planet and that. not surprisingly much of the world is not too eager to see that so what you say that what's happening in the middle in the middle east or northern africa right now is

basically an attempt on 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 they they 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 so-called spontaneous protests these twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have

all been. organized. some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in 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 arab world vast wealth sovereign wealth funds of countries like kuwait. and 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 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 something's a big numbers and ski talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in his famous book the grand chess game. 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 middle east and. northern african countries which have gone through with the 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 could offer. 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 revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events so while the instigators of the conflicts will 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 they give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think what their concern is especially the pentagon is military control the next step will be in this so-called transitional national council in libya is to have that puppet government give permanent basing rights inside libya something they never had before under gadhafi saw sudan some of the things defenseless in this they have nato forces in there the

african is coordinating this the pentagon's africa command which is. interesting enough created just after china's two thousand and six africa diplomacy were 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 the chinese began doing and that had enormous results for china i know that you have a very interesting opinion of this who was you say pace towards that ways by the 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 that the central bank of china masses every year what do you do

with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in a supposedly big could buy gold for their central bank reserves which they are doing by the way but the only place they can invest it as they see it right now or until very recently is either in dollars or in the euro 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 or wage those boards in iraq or in libya unless the chinese were buying u.s. treasury bonds so ironically the chinese are financing wars directly directed against chinese national interest for energy security or would you say that the united states is going to has any chance of resurfacing from the crisis that it's

finding itself in right now the only way as they see it they can they can survive and keep the dollars there 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 vast wealth of the arab oil world and the arab 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 overturn it or inherit it rather 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 covert financial warfare between the dollar and the euro was a reserve currency it started when the chinese started complaining publicly about

the. flawed economic policy of 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 under the euro zone 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 the. 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 a u.s. because one great difference europe still produces things europe still has a real industry which you believe that from going back till at the beginning of our

interview we believe that there is some european countries there's benefit from the situation in raveling 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 the cia and the french intelligence have been pouring arms into these insurgent groups inside libya this is an armed insurrection financed by nato countries in libya it's an old peaceful twitter revolution of a bunch of kids who have a dream of american style democracy of something this is raw power grab by the french but what do you predict or in european what do you think will happen in the be and now i mean the need to troops will have to pull out at some point and then what will the. i imagine an iraq like scenario or afghanistan what do you

have in afghanistan and you have seventeen permanent u.s. military bases in afghanistan most of them air bases 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 in the heart of central asia that's something that they never had during the cold war. so i think libya is destined for a similar treatment what role do you think process should play in the in the events which are unraveling right now i think russia given the history going back more than more than the cold war europe. 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 nato in the us in that region russia can play a very important role blocking. someone toward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think china would agree you say due to the p case

to the un action sanctions action in syria but in more ways than that russia can play a very constructive role i think in the region to try to counter this destabilization i would hope they do. thank you very much for your time. those who are fascinated with history. to those who have a sweet tooth. to those who can't live without discomfort. and

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talk to the opposition and withdraw tanks from the streets the violent clashes between anti regime protesters and security forces have claimed some three thousand lives since the unrest began all the way back in march. washington stops its funding of unesco just hours off to the u.n. cultural agency granted the palestinians full membership by a majority vote by the move is seen by many as a sign of growing international support palestine's pending u.n. state. and the real how in trade here the mainstream media resurrects a russian spy ring case code named ghost stories the f.b.i. releases footage featuring sleeper agents on covered in the u.s. last year including of course the famous femen fertile and a chinaman. a brief pause in the hard news to get your world of sports and what i understand some petersburg gearing up to step into uncharted territory and exactly right we're

a tell you what if they win tonight in the champions league again shocked they will be top of their group never happened before it will be a good night to be as the need to find more on that coming up in just a sec. thanks for joining us this is sports and there are plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including these stories including. continental quests the meats and petersburg take on shocked or at home tonight knowing victory will propel them top of champions league group g. . capital gains system all school boosts their title credentials this season with their third constant a hockey league win in four games at the expense of metzeler. take your pick and we recount all the strikes that made the difference in the

penultimate week of russian premier league action that is goals galore. and we begin with petersburg are preparing to kick off game week four in the champions league choose these early seeing luciano spy let these charges entertain ukrainians shucked are the russian champions have been riding high in the competition to date already with three more points at the same stage down in their sole previous european cup adventure two years bike victory over portugal at the end of september their own dog had highlight no alexander though this evening the russian international striker ruled out with uncle injury shocked or meanwhile will travel on the back of an away win in their latest domestic fixture against alexandria the three two result putting that to net side within a point of leaders to be on the key have. auction gets underway eighteen forty five central european time. elsewhere in each group porto will aim to get back to winning ways when they travel to

surprise table toppers up a well off cypress milan barcelona meanwhile will have group h. supremacy on their minds when they take on. respectively the european giants they are joint top of the standings with seven. over in group the gang will be our for revenge against chelsea the belgians going down by nil last time out against the blues plenty host in-form buyer leverkusen place the arsenal versus second series marci is the pick of the group after fixtures while winless brasil are home to libya cuts. to the english game we go where it's a good time to be in newcastle fun at present the magpies sitting pretty in third place in the premier league following victory away to stoke in monday's only game demba by helping himself to a drink at the britannia stadium with stokes jonathan netting the home side's gold newcastle hunt joint third with chelsea and spurs heading into the game but not

trail second see that manchester united by a solid three point newcastle on leaders manchester city are also the only on the inside so far this season. let's talk ice hockey now where saskia moscow's hopes of a first every kid have improved somewhat the army men beating one of the league's eastern powerhouses. here in the russian capital constantine put top off reports. to have won just two majors out of eight when you go. and only once on home ice this time the home side produced an electric stored in the sewage for thirty we discuss striking procedures which is why people read and lose a hand just two minutes in a minute and a half later cost top scorers so you should look up double duty for. told to swap goaltenders discouraging start for the visitors and they seemed confused and the house left for the intermission with a comfortable two nothing leans up to some probable had dry treatment from

steelmakers head coach from the county can quit trying to get back into the game but he wants to increase their lead with a power play goal because there are some was the first on the rebound up to show powerful slap shot 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 and all moot send them back home on a counterattack to make it three one but four minutes later to sky regain their three goal lead balloon in pass to beatrice twelve brock chico and the twenty four year old defender made it four one four minutes before the final buzzer meant old 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 their chances a serious cause a wrist just lost daniel was confident between the pipes short to the final score you happen to games in a row for that so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last game

and they tied it so we didn't want to happen again and. we battle hard and in a second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and we scored the third goal and powerplay so i think that was the point for the game where we came out hard the way they wanted to play there were and were successful with. a couple shots to the start of the game or a night to get their ball first or second all their days got going to one line up and now see feed in the western conference well last season's going in cup semifinalists made a little continue their relatively poor before lunch and stay fief in the concern about that of our team. graham henry is no longer head coach of the new zealand rugby team the sixty five year old leaving on a high after sealing his country second world cup triumph last month against france he hard headed the all blacks for seven seasons

i'm stepping down from coach. how they are now. i've been involved in auditing three test matches with you will brag about a hundred forty in total it's been a privilege to be involved with the old bricks. a real privilege of enormous privilege i'm very proud of what i have done i will last i. wish to be added to the legacy of robotic rugby. and that's very important at this stage. it's not certain that russia's first ever formula one driver vitaly petrov will be with lotus renault next season the driver said to be replaced by roman for the early circuits sessions at this season's final race in brazil not great news for the v. borg rocket at all g.p. to chopping rouge on will also get to ride instead of petrol stablemate produced santa at the ultimate abu dhabi event the team have struggled this year with

patrols third place finish on the opening day of the season in melbourne far and away their best result twenty seven year old petrol finished eleventh this past season of the indian grand prix drawing criticism from his stable for a quote on inspired performance. there's a three way tie in the n.f.l. to the west after kansas city peter rival sunday a go on monday night the following chargers on the victorious chiefs joined by the oakland raiders atop the division the chiefs are firing in the pasta jonathan baldwin for the game's first big score fellow rookie marcus gilchrist staying tight but unable to stop the ball when touched on the chargers stayed in the game though courtesy of nick novak's field goals on the game was tied here at twenty apiece when a costly from zero by son diego quarterback philip rivers late in the fourth set up ryan circle for a field goal in overtime thirty yards or sealing straight down the middle the

chiefs take a twenty three twenty four win number for. now finally not a single game ended goalless this week in the russian premier league the sides 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 fund the back of the net during the penultimate round it is goals for.

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recognition washington stops its funding. for the u.n. cultural agency granted the palestinians full membership by a majority vote. and a real halloween treat mainstream media resurrect. stories which sees the release of footage. in the us last year. a very warm welcome to you this is. with me. the world waits for serious response to the arab league's demands to pull tanks off the streets and start a dialogue with the opposition. and president assad said that he would only talk to parties that have no links with foreign powers all what he called terrorist.