“Control the oil, and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people.”* -Henry Kissenger
“Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation”
by F. William Engdahl is a skillfully researched book that focuses on
how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control
over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread.
This
is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader
inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs,
behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author cogently
reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue,
government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the
patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food
production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come
as no surprise. For that is what it is.
Engdahl’s
carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies
surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific
technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those
committed to the causes of social justice and world peace.
What follows is the Preface to “Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” by F. William Engdahl (available through Global Research):
Introduction
“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so,we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.”
-George Kennan, US State Department senior planning official, 1948
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This
book is about a project undertaken by a small socio-political elite,
centered, after the Second World War, not in London, but in Washington.
It is the untold story of how this self-anointed elite set out, in
Kennan’s words, to “maintain this position of disparity.” It is the
story of how a tiny few dominated the resources and levers of power in
the postwar world.
It’s
above all a history of the evolution of power in the control of a
select few, in which even science was put in the service of that
minority. As Kennan recommended in his 1948 internal memorandum, they
pursued their policy relentlessly, and without the “luxury of altruism
and world-benefaction.”
Yet,
unlike their predecessors within leading circles of the British Empire,
this emerging American elite, who proclaimed proudly at war’s end the
dawn of their American Century, were masterful in their use of the
rhetoric of altruism and world-benefaction to advance their goals. Their
American Century paraded as a softer empire, a “kinder, gentler” one in
which, under the banner of colonial liberation, freedom, democracy and
economic development, those elite circles built a network of power the
likes of which the world had not seen since the time of Alexander the
Great some three centuries before Christ—a global empire unified under
the military control of a sole superpower, able to decide on a whim, the
fate of entire nations.
| Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation |
| By F. William Engdahl Global Research, May 22, 2020 |
| Url of this article: https://www.globalresearch.ca/ |
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