Paul Jay of The Real News interviews F. William Engdahl, economist and author of the best selling book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" who explains US Geopolitical objectives in Afghanistan, in terms clear and simple enough even for US mainstream network television audiences - which is probably why you never see him on television.

Based in Germany, Engdahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s, and is a regular contributor to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine, and Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland.