Steve Mnuchin

Our doctors and nurses are being thoroughly mobilized and worked to limit… Many cases receive no attention at all.
— Acting Governor Calvin Coolidge, Massachusetts, 9/25/1918

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin seems to think that nations under the hammer of American sanctions should be thanking Washington for not attacking them militarily instead. How generous, how virtuous of Uncle Sam!
Speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar last week, Mnuchin made a virtue of the US imposing economic sanctions on countries it dislikes because such measures, he claimed, were a way to avoid the worse alternative of war.

As the multi-layered manuevering in regard to Venezuela continues, it was reported a couple of days ago that the Bank of England has taken actions in line with Washington’s lead. The Bank of England has refused to hand over $1.2 billion of Venezuelan gold back to the Venzuelan government. Above is a clip from RT […]

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Money talks, and no one knows this better than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s how the Trump Administration communicates with its enemies, as well as with its allies – through the application powerful long-range financial instruments. But Europe is moving in for another attempt at breaking Washington’s blockade of Iran.

An internal government document reveals tactics of “economic warfare” and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela in the…
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While Donald Trump was off in Singapore trying to avert a third world war, his Treasury secretary was busy at home, trying to start one.
Steven Mnuchin used the U.S. president’s absence from Washington for a historic peace summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as an opportunity to jack up sanctions against the Russian Federation.

The support lent by Russia and China at the UN security council for new sanctions against North Korea, apparently has not paid off.
On Tuesday, Steven Mnuchin’s Treasury Department slapped a new set of sanctions on Russian and Chinese firms, allegedly for doing business with Pyongyang.
That’s despite the 15-0 vote in the security council earlier this month, which Beijing and Moscow made possible.

In a surprise move, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has announced new sanctions against Iran.
The move is not totally shocking, given the Trump administration’s record of bellicosity towards the Islamic republic.
The sanctions target 16 “entities and individuals” for furnishing support to Iran’s military or Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, or for alleged involvement in criminal activities.
Regarding the targets of the sanctions, Mnuchin stated:

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F. William Engdahl is a strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics.