Veteran war correspondent Michael Yon, testifying at the National Citizens’ Inquiry, claimed that the actual purpose of the Iran war has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.

Are farmers safe? Nobody’s safe

War correspondent tells inquiry that cutting world’s food supply is globalists’ objective

Nelson Zandbergen
Farmers Forum

OTTAWA — Veteran war correspondent Michael Yon warned of critical threats to Canadian farmers’ global supply chains, fertilizer availability, and looming global famine during his recent testimony at a privately organized public inquiry.

“There’s no way we can avoid huge amounts of human suffering, death and war,” Yon predicted at the livestreamed National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) Aug. 19 in High River, Alberta.

And it’s by design, according to the independent American journalist, who pointed to rising fuel and fertilizer costs as deliberate policies intended to reduce the global population.

“It’s a process of controlling and reducing food supply to control and reduce the population,” said the former U.S. Green Beret also known as “the cannibal hunter.” Added Yon: “Now they’ve cranked it into overdrive … attacking energy directly and very overtly, right?

And attacking fertilizer supplies directly and overtly.”

The current war with Iran and resulting closure of the Strait of Hormuz offered the “most bang for your buck” in cutting the world’s food and energy supply, he asserted, bluntly suggesting it was the actual purpose of the war. “It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.”

The end game is controlling a world population that will be easier to subjugate if food is scarce, according to Yon. Global elites “want control of the world. They want the world to be one big park with a lot fewer humans, and that’s what they want,” he claimed.

The National Citizens’ Inquiry was originally sparked as a grassroots examination of the abuses of Canada’s Covid pandemic response, ultimately producing a 5,300-page report on that topic in 2024. The organization, led in part by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, has since turned its attention to the perils facing agriculture.

The inquiry focused on two questions: “Are farmers safe in Canada, and is our food safe in Canada?”

Neither is safe, according to Yon, who predicted famine, and not just in the developing world. “Eventually, you’re going to start seeing, honest, no kidding, food shortages in places like North America … Canada, United States, Mexico.”

Yon more famously predicted, in July 2025, that the United States would end up in a sustained war with Iran. The Trump administration and Israel attacked Iran the following February, a conflict that has continued unabated since then.