“I am currently very afraid,” an interpreter tells Reason. “I…have no doubt that I will be targeted and get killed.”
by Fiona Harrigan
Reason.com
American troops are scheduled to come home from Afghanistan by September 11. What will become of the Afghan interpreters who have helped those troops is less clear.
Sayed is one of those interpreters. He worked alongside U.S. forces for 10 years, assisting high-ranking military officials with his knowledge of the local language and customs. “I received letters of appreciation, letters of recommendations, and medals,” he tells Reason.
Even with this record, Sayed has spent more than a decade trying to acquire a visa to come to the United States. American ties carry grave risks in Afghanistan. Already the recipient of Taliban death threats and anonymous hostile phone calls, Sayed fears his time is running out.
“I am currently very afraid,” he says. “I…have no doubt that I will be targeted and get killed.”
The liberal media approached the latest outbreak of violence in the Middle East as a renewal of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, if not a return to the Arab-Israeli Wars of half a century ago. Former president George W. Bush, however, saw the situation for what it was. In an exclusive interview with Fox News on May 19, he correctly stated that what “you’re seeing playing out is Iranian influence targeted toward Israel.” The 4,000 rockets fired by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists from Gaza were supplied by Iran along with a wide arsenal of other weapons (including attack drones), training, and money. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are just two of many insurgent groups the Tehran regime uses to project its power in the region. Hezb’allah, Iran’s largest paramilitary force, also took part in the current round of violence by firing rockets from Lebanon and Syria. Iran’s Quds Force controls these groups as it does a network of Shiite militias in Iraq and Yemen. Tehran’s strategy is to surround its enemies with insurgents who can harass and weaken them.
The Fed has embarked on a massive expansionary quest in recent years. In 2020, total Reserve Bank assets rose from $4.2 trillion to $7.4 trillion amidst the pandemic and related government lockdown and fiscal “stimulus” policies. That was roughly three times the extraordinary growth in the consolidated balance sheet for the Reserve Banks in the 2008-2009 financial crisis. And in the latest weekly “H.4.1” release, total assets were up to $7.8 trillion – rising about a hundred billions dollars a month so far this year.
The rebounds in Gold and Silver exceeded my expectations and closed May in a strong fashion, near the highs of the month.
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Shoplifting has become so rampant in San Francisco that retailers are closing stores.
North Korea warned the United States it was creating an “acute and instable situation” in the region Monday following a recent summit between President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-In.
Parents of first-grade children at the exclusive New York City Dalton School were enraged when they discovered their children were shown a “sex ed” cartoon video in which young children talked about “touching themselves” for pleasure, a report at the New York Post revealed.
Thank goodness for widespread and deeply seated economic ignorance. Seriously, thank goodness! Without widespread economic ignorance, the world would be a much poorer place. For this claim, I have quantifiable proof – namely, my income, other economists’ incomes, as well as the incomes of the many merchants with whom I and my fellow economists deal.
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During this weekend’s “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” in Dallas, Texas, former national security advisor General Michael Flynn told a crowd “there’s no reason” a military-led coup couldn’t take place in America.
China and Russia are making major moves in the gold market.
The “Everything Bubble” has jumped from hyperbole to literal truth in just a couple of years, as more and more assets enter “crazy expensive/extremely reckless” territory. The latest addition to the list is collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), which are created when a bank lends money to a less-than-creditworthy company and then bundles that loan with a bunch of similar loans into bonds for sale to yield-starved pension funds and bond funds.