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If you read The Lost Hegemon you will find out:

  • How the Pentagon and CIA use radical Islam as an instrument to control world energy
  • The true history of al Qaeda and its successor Islamic State
  • How Washington backs a death cult called Muslim Brotherhood to control world oil
  • The real background to ‘Holy War’ in China and Russia
  • Why the US-ISIS strategy cannot succeed

Europe and the West face a social crisis as a brutal war in Syria has spread around the world. The ISIS, also known as Islamic State erupted violently onto the world stage in 2014 proclaiming its aim to create a Global Caliphate. War and terror in Syria have created a massive refugee crisis across Europe. In autumn 2015 Russia was invited to help defeat ISIS in Syria. That Russian military action signaled a new era in global politics. Washington no longer dominated the military world. The world was ineluctably moving towards a new world war, one claiming to have religion at its core. Islam was being instrumentalized as a weapon of war, but by whom? Few asked who was behind the IS terror or Al Qaeda. For that it would be necessary look back to the 1950’s and the birth of a new American intelligence agency and their ties to the secret Muslim Brotherhood. What emerges is a picture so incredible few could imagine.

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F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, and lecturer. He has authored nine books that have been translated into 14 foreign languages including Chinese, German, Japanese, including the international best-selling A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics; Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation; Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order His works trace the basis of the rise of the US as an international superpower, the emergence after 1945 of America as a new kind of Empire, one not based upon sole military occupation. It was an 'informal empire, ' where control of finance, of the basic food chain, of energy-above all of oil, would be the basis for what would become the greatest concentration of power in history, an American Hegemon, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. William Engdahl grew up in Texas. After earning a degree in politics from Princeton University, and graduate study in comparative economics at Stockholm University, he worked as an economist and investigative journalist in the USA and Europe. He was Named Visiting Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and delivers talks and private seminars around the world on different aspects of economics and politics with focus on geopolitical events. www.williamengdahl.com.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
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    F. William Engdahl is a political economist and founder of Engdahl Strategic Risk Consulting, providing geopolitical strategic risk advice to companies and financial institutions. He has specialized for more than thirty seven years in geopolitical analysis of global events, and is an American citizen living and working in Germany since 1985.

    Mr. Engdahl was a lecturer in economics at the Rhein-Main University in Germany and was a Visiting Professor in Political Economy at Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

    He authored the international best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics, published as well in German, French, English, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Korean, Turkish, Croatian, Slovenian. In 2010 he published Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century and in 2013 a new edition of his best-selling Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation completing a trilogy on the power of oil, food and money control. His book, Target China: How Washington and Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon appeared in 2014, and The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy was released in summer 2015 and also was an international bestseller.

    After a degree in politics from Princeton University (USA), and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm, Engdahl worked as an independent economist and research journalist in New York and later in Europe, covering the fields of energy policy worldwide; global trade; EU food policies, the grain trade; IMF policy; Third World debt issues; the politics of hedge funds and the 2007-2015 dollar crisis.

    He contributes regularly to a number of international publications and electronic media on economics and political affairs including the US Coast to Coast AM, Asia Times, FinancialSense.com, The Real News, Russia Today (RT) TV, Rossiya 1, Asia Inc., CCTV in China, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, European Banker and Globus in Croatia.

    Mr. Engdahl has been a featured speaker at numerous international conferences including the keynote speech to the 2014 Third Nishan Forum on World Civilizations in Jinan, China; London Centre for Energy Policy Studies Annual Retreat, as personal guest of Hon. Sheikh Zaki Yamani; Turkish-Eurasian Business Council of Istanbul, Global Investors’ Forum (GIF), Montreaux Switzerland; Bank Negara Indonesia; the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies; the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Energy Symposium, and Croatian Chamber of Commerce and Economics.

    He currently lives in Germany, working as a consulting political risk economist for major European banks and private investors and writing and lecturing. A sample of his writings is available at www.williamengdahl.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Facts that Remove the Doubt
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2017
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F. William Engdahl puts to rest the concept of "conspiracy theories". All the documentation is right there, in black and white. So you thought Amerika was innocent and altruistic, and those wars were all justified. The amazing part is that I was reading stories in Reader's Digest as a boy about Afghanistan and wondering why it all mattered. Engdahl answered that question and goes even further in showing the imperial ambitions and delusions of this country. We, the workers, are just cannon fodder for the power brokers. For anyone befuddled by the current state of affairs, this book is a MUST. A true revelation!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Engdahl is a good writer, and makes the subject fascinating
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017
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I've just had the chance to pick up the book today because the Holidays kept me so busy. I gave "Seeds of Destruction" and this book as presents, this particular book for me as well. Mr. Engdahl is a good writer, and makes the subject fascinating, despite the gut wrenching reality. It's a life topic most of us would like to put our heads in the sand about, I want to, but those that thirst for truth will understand this answers questions we worry about. I'm only on page 35, but after reading "Seeds of Destruction" I know I will be enlightened, and knowledgeable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ for anyone who hasn't figured this out, yet, or wants to confirm their suspiscions.
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2017
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This should be a MUST READ for all Americans with a half a brain or more. I haven't read a book from cover-to-cover in so long that I am ashamed to divulge the time. But, I couldn't put this down. It's actually a fairly easy read and extremely well foot-noted. I have read Mr. Engdahl's other books, yet. But, if you wonder what on earth is going on in the world, today, this will provide a clear view and a clear head for you.
This book follows the CIA and the Elites that have their investments in the Energy and Military Industrial Complex arenas from the time right after WW1 up through 2015. It shows that they have used Religion to foment hatred between the majority-Islamic States of the World and the West so that the West has had a "reason" (many fabricated) to go in and devastate these Countries that are rich in natural gas, oil reserves, and other highly desirable natural resources . It also shows how the CIA has used the production (particularly in Afghanistan) and CIA-transportation of drugs (particularly, heroin) as well as the laundering of drug-money as ways to partially fund their grand plans. The other operating costs are born by you, the tax-payer.
They justify what they do and have done by using the words of the Ancient Greeks: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." The common man has always been the pawn. This book should really get you upset. It did me.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Engdahl has a excellent grasp of the issues and the history surrounding the ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017
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Mr. Engdahl has a excellent grasp of the issues and the history surrounding the so called "war on terror" and the shameful history of US/Anglo imperialist interference. This book has a few typos in it,perhaps because English was not the first language of the publisher. Overall a insightful read and a good intro read for those confused by the incoherent narrative presented by MSM and your loving US Government
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5.0 out of 5 stars Without This Book One Cannot Understand America's Wars Since 1989
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2017
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It would be impossible to summarize this important book in a few paragraphs. F William Engdahl has written an exhaustive history of the CIA's recruitment of the Muslim Brotherhood, beginning in the 1950s, and its use of them to destabilize regimes and fight proxy wars for the USA from Tunisia to the Xinjiang province of China.

His story begins with the roots of Islamic rage and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood under Al-Banna in the aftermath of World War 1, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain's perfidy in the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the Balfour Declaration. It continues with the Muslim Brothers' participation in Hitler's" Holy War" against the Jews under the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

In 1979 President Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski recruited the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the USSR in Afghanistan, and since then the CIA has used them to fight proxy wars for the USA in the Balkans, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, China, and to establish a new Ottoman Caliphate in Eurasia through the work of Fetullah Gulen. Now the CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood are present in Syria and Iraq in the form of ISIS.

America is indeed the lost hegemon. Anyone who reads this book and also William Engdahl's Full Spectrum Dominance will understand how and why America is now engaged in a new Cold War.
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5.0 out of 5 stars William Engdahl deliver real news with excellent verification among his many contacts in the world
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017
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William Engdahl deliver real news with excellent verification among his many contacts in the world.. and, we all know that our own government provides only propaganda, not truth. Mr Engdahl is a very brave man because he delivers the unvarnished truth, and unfortunately, the truth today is constant corruption among a very few people like the rockefellers and others, the globalists, who believe that they own the world, and we are all deplorables. At the risk of being nieve, i believe that we can restore greatness to the united states, the greatest country in the history of the world, but we must have knowledge to fight the corruption and insanity that is in power today. The battle requires eternal vigilance and knowledge. You will find a gigantic helping hand from William Engdahl, and his other books are just as helpful. My recommendation is use his website, utube and read all of his books; in particular, the book on genetically modified foods because money and power are more important than providing real food for us. In conclusion, if you want to wake up, and deal with the corrupt fascist power establishment, here is your opportunity to learn and face these monsters because our children and grandchildren deserve far more than we have provided them.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017
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He says what no one else will. I assume it is true and if so, it is shocking. I have heard some of these stories before, and that lends credence to his account.
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5.0 out of 5 stars イスラム過激派／ジハード主義者とはつまりは何なのか？
Reviewed in Japan on April 5, 2022
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アメリカ帝国やNATO諸国が世界中で展開しているハイブリッド戦争には色々な要素が有るが、基本となるのはカラー革命と非正規戦争のふたつ。前者は同じエングダール氏の’Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance’と云う本で解説されているが、本書は後者の非正規戦争に焦点を当てた解説書。その担い手たるイスラム過激派／ジハード主義者なるものが元々どう云う存在だったのかを踏まえた上で、第一次大戦時の大英帝国や第二次大戦時のナチスドイツとの繋がりを経て、CIAのサイクロン作戦や冷戦後のNATOの再起動、「テロとの戦争」によって現在見られる様なユーラシア・アフリカ両大陸に跨るグローバル・ジハード・ネットワークに展開して行く様が解り易く解説されている。これらはイスラム内部の動きだけでは到底説明出来ず、西側諸国との密接な繋がりを抜きにしては理解出来ないことがよく解る。

　このレビューを書いている2022年4月現在、ウクライナに対するロシアの特殊軍事作戦による「非軍事化」と「非ナチ化」の試みは順調に推移している様だが、敗北を受け入れようとしないウクライナ政府=NATO側はネオナチの立て直しを図ってか、各地から傭兵を集め、シリアからもISISを投入しようと悪足掻きを続けている。チェチェンやウイグルのジハード主義者等も加わっていて、事態はさながらアル＝カイダの再起動の様相を呈している。ユダヤ人オリガルヒが資金提供するアゾフ大隊などは反ロシア以外にも反ムスリムの傾向を持つ組織の様なので、ジハード主義者達と一体全体どうやって折り合いをつけさせるのだろうと思うが、こうして見ると、ウクライナに於けるネオナチ（或いはオリジナルのナチと呼ぶべきなのかも知れないが）はジハード主義者の白人版だと言えなくもない。

　曾てプーチンが西側の御用記者団を前にはっきり述べた様に、「テロリスト」とはつまりは西側の傭兵のことだ。その観点から見ると、ヒトラーのナチも似た様なものだったと言えなくもない。ナチは英米等の企業や銀行や政府の支援や黙認を受けてロシアを侵略しようとして失敗した訳だが、今起こっているのもそれと似た様なことだ。地政学ブログの「Deeply Japan」さんが「NATOの東方拡大はスローモーションのバルバロッサ作戦だ」と喩えていたが、西側自由民主主義陣営（＝国連のナチ非難決議に於いて賛成票を投じなかった国々）とはつまるところナチ陣営だったのだ、と考えてみると、戦後の歴史の不可解な部分の多くが割とすっきり理解出来る様になると思う。となると、1930年代に資本主義諸国を襲ったファシズムの大流行とはそもそも一体何だったのだろう。神々は今正に狂気の蛮行を利用した西側帝国主義陣営の覇権に引導を渡そうとしている訳だが、この歴史の転換点に於て、現在を理解する為には過去の読み直しが必要なのではないかと強く思う次第だ。

　本書の記述は2015年までで終わっているが、2015年のシリアに対してロシアが軍事支援を行なって以降、ISISは殆ど息の根を止められた。ウクライナのジハード主義者とネオナチの再編の問題も含めて、このヤクザなテロ商売と過激思想のカップリングが今後どう展開して行くのか、目が離せない。
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the first of Engdahl's books I read. I will continue reading more.
Reviewed in Australia on May 7, 2017
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It is the most researched account of recent geopolitics I have read. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the world they live in. Reading Engdahl's book certainly gives a different perspective to our daily news casts.His historical and political views documented in pages and pages of foot notes to every paragraph will encourage reflection and thought in any reader not familiar with him. I will continue reading his other books as well as listen to his interviews on you tube et al.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2016
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An extraordinarily interesting and comprehensive detail of how political prostitutes and their " johns " have shaped the 20th.century. You will begin to understand the real reason and truth behind world events. This book explains how the US and an obedient NATO create internal chaos in a targeted country, and then move in to "stabilize" it and take control of its resources for their "johns" the elite , that already share about 40% of the wealth on this planet. A must read if you want to understand what our "independent" media news outlets are really saying.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An informative study of Islamic Fundamentalism
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2016
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I have read all of William Engdahl's books to date and find them very interesting, informative and insightful. I puchased "The Lost Hegemon" as soon as I saw it was available and read it with much enthusiasm the week it arrived. The book details the relationship between the United States and Islamic Fundamentalism, from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood at the end of the First World War to the Islamic State in more recent times. It has a lot of facts packed inside it's 281 pages, plus references at the end of each chapter for further purusal. Whilst I knew some of the details from my own casual studies (the role of the CIA and the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War and a little of the Chechen Wars), there was a lot of information that was new to me. The strength of William Engdahl's writing is his mastery of tying all the information together in a very cohesive manner. There is a lot to take in and it is unsettling in as much as the world we are shown through the regular media is very different to what actually goes on "behind the scenes" as it were. Recommended reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism and the way it has been orchestrated by those nations who we are told are fighting against it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read to understand the reality of US foreign policy
Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2019
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A dose of Engdahl's insights on purported enemies of the west is an important antidote to what we are fed by mainstream news. His information shatters any illusions we may have held about the role of the American government in foreign affairs. I'd call this a must-read, like others by this brilliant investigator.
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