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mingle tells r.t. who could be pushing the middle east and north africa towards the political change that's our special interview next on. today we're talking to a foreign named all the author of several books among them are gods of money 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 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 the northern africa middle east these conflicts feed off each other are they somehow related or not particularly what i see in all 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 in the eyes period is all part of the breakdown of the entire super power structure that was built up after being under the war two and nobody in washington wants to admit just there's nobody in britain one hundred years ago wanted to admit that the british empire was in trouble of requiring 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 and we couldn't see that so would you say that what's happening in the middle in the middle east or northern africa right now is basically an attempt are not at the behalf of the united states to keep its game up very much so the. plan was first to announce 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 the 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 of the oil producing states there and across north africa all the way to morocco and the events the so-called arab spring have been planned years back and the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protests least twitter revolts and cairo and the tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been creepy organized 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 arab 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 sell sudan the so-called republic of sorts of and to militarize those oil sources that are directly strategic to

china's future economic growth so this is all about controlling eurasia somethings we can pursue in school you talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in this 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 that they are the so-called arab spring what can we honestly say that the middle east and. north african countries which have come through with changes how 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 governments of nato the day the country is in ruins because of those but i mean it's not because of. the economy of egypt

is in dire straits the military remains in control they were in the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon hundred return and take control of those events so all the instigators of the conflicts all turn seem to be you know the united states an example of 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 you can give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think to get there what their concern is especially the pentagon is military control the next step will be on this so-called transitional national council and libya's that is to have that puppet government give the legal permanent basing rights inside libya something we've never had before and are quite often. some of the defenses and those they have nato forces in there the africa army is coordinating this new pentagon's africa command which is. interestingly enough created just after china's and six

africa diplomacy where forty heads of african nations were invited to beijing and the 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 would you say pays for wars that were raised 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 only in america today so the three hundred billion plus surplus dollars at the central bank of china masses every year what do you do with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in that i suppose and they

could buy gold for their central bank reserves which they are doing by the way but the only place i can invest it as they see it right now or 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 or which 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 to use national interest for energy security or would you say 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 if they can they can survive and keep the dollars or instrument of wall street i'm talking about is the gods of

money as i call it in my book. is to find new areas of loot so the arab spring is directed against grabbing and privatizing the bast 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 in 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 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 washington running up deficits and endangering the

value of chinese treasury bonds so now. just for that to 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 us because one great difference europe still produces things europe still has a real industry which i believe that from going back to or at the beginning of our interview would you believe that there is some european countries this benefit from the situation and having faith in libya right now like france well i was just going

to say sarkozy had a meeting in march when they had 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 but what do you predict or in your opinion do you think for happened in libya now i mean i've been into the talks will have to pull out at some point and then worked well lou. 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 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 but you've got a military bastion in the heart of central asia something that they never had in the cold war. so i think libya's is destined for a sort of what role do you think process it playing in the in the events force are unraveling 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 forced of 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. some on toward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think china would agree as we did with the case to the un action sanctions action in syria but in more ways than that russia could

play a very constructive role i think in the region to try to counter this destabilization i would hope i do. thank you very much for your time. and. to do those who are fascinated with history. to do 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 treasures. between earth and the sky. on our. wealthy british science scientists sometimes like this.

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feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. top stories this hour on t.v. focus on people not finance the message of thousands of protesters on the french riviera as it prepares to host the world's top leaders at a key twenty summit. the f.b.i. joins the how to win celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage story and a chaplain and other alleged russian spies. and syria says it's ready to implement the among the arab league to end the crisis but only if sanctions against a sense regime lifted. for those stories on the news fourteen fifteen mins from now in the meantime the sport is next with dmitri.

hello there welcome to the sports are two things for joining us this hour first let's take a look at the headlines. champions league zinni take hits home tonight knowing a victory would propel them top of group g. . capital gade. boost their title credentials this season with their third victory in four games in the kontinental hockey league . goals galore were kept all the strikes that made the difference in the penultimate we're told the first stage of the longest season in the russian premier league. so we start with football weighs in it sent it is birds have clipped of game week four in the champions league today's early match seeing the china split is men entertain ukrainian outfit structures benefits which sides are currently in action and one nil to the side with the final whistle about their people is

longboats scored for the russian. of the. group portal and to get back to winning ways when they travel to surprise table toppers of cyprus a similar and supports a lower meanwhile will have group h. supremacy on their minds when they take on but respectively the european giants are joint top of the standings with seven points. the group big bank will be out for revenge against chelsea the belgians going down five near last time out against the blues. informed by a little. place arsenal versus second seated must say is the take of the group fixtures it garners manager hopes to solve all their problems tonight and book their place in the polls. aside you can defend were always very physical and discreet condom breaks so i would never. contract i

could shoot him or been dominating the game so i've gained in confidence as well leave the beach and games like we did so it should be an interesting caillebotte for us it's an opportunity to qualify tomorrow night and of course you want to take me out. now the russian press is reporting that they have civil good footballers who will not be showing up to their tuesday training session the players pockets in the club which owes them a stellar and bonuses dating back to last year third from watson and will have a chance to fight for premier league survival as the long russian season splits a top and bottom teams in st the national grid side recently lost three males who is in it with captain until now has a fitting end saying that the true reason for this if it lies behind the scenes a similar situation is brewing at second division side f.c. they know where it without pay players threatening to boycott matches and never.

go to the ice now where it says cars hopes of a first ever catch hell crown have improved somewhat there must provide speed saying one of the league's strongest in the east and that's all of course in the russian capital as god so he put up with now reports. this guy have won just two majors out of eight against mean old when you go. in only once on home ice this time the home side produced an electric start in the search for third wind discuss striking first is which is likely i mean the red and blues a had just two minutes in a minute all you have weighed out is cast top scorer double duty forcing it all to swap goaltenders discouraging start for the visitors and he seemed confused when the house left for the intermission will be comfortable to mockingly after some probable had dry treatment from still makers head coach for. trying to get back into the game but he wants to increase their lead would have probably gone because

the person was the first on the rounds of the shock of powerful slap shot to make it and we go again four minutes to go in the second however meet old managed to pull one back early in the decisive period as i'm gone send it back home on the counter-attack to make it three one before minutes later to sky rigging. three goal lead balloon in past to be just one brought people in the twenty four year old defender made it four one four minutes before the final buzzer mcculloch's and releasing the required intrigue cutting the deficit to two goals in a power play and the visitors put everything on the line into the goal for next to play but fail to get eyes on the chances a serious cause a risk just last minute confidence between the pipes short to the final score you have been through games in a row for us about so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last game tied it so we didn't want to happen again and. we battle hard and in the second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and

we scored a goal in powerplay so i think that was the point for the game we came out hard came out the way we wanted to where we are and were successful with. a couple shots the start managed to get the ball first all the second all round to skulk wind one line up and now see fifty in the western conference well last season's going cup semifinalists with a look continue their relatively poor before lunch and stay fief in the east complain but out of r t. graham henry has to down as head coach of the new zealand rugby team the sixty five year old manager living on a high note after selling his country's second world cup triumph last month against france managed the all blacks for seven seasons from stepping down from. enough. i've been involved in our three kids measures we will break but

a hundred forty in total it's been a privilege to be involved with the all blacks. a real privilege norma's privilege . proud of what by god i will make. absolutely added to the legacy of rugby. and that's very important to this team. it's not certain that russia's first ever formula one motel or betroth will be with a lotus next season the driver is said to be replaced by shan for the early sessions at this season's final race in brazil g.p. two champ john will also get to ride instead of patrol stablemate on the sand at the canal tonight a bit of event the team have struggled this year with patrols third place finish and open race in melbourne find away their best results twenty seven year old patrol finished eleventh at the recent grand prix his performance was criticised by

his own team for being quote on it. and fine and not a single game ended goalless this week in the russian premier league as the sides prepare to split into two groups of eight for the second half the longest ever the mystic season so let's get eric help of all twenty two strikes that found the back of the nets during the penultimate round it's our traditional cost of.

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