Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The US justice system is a rubber stamp for the prosecution due to America overreacting to the crime wave of the 1970s and enacting bad legislation. The vast prison industrial complex lobbies aggressively, which means more arrests, lockups, and prisons. Conrad Black says: The US has
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Continued sanctions are highly unlikely to halt Iran’s nuclear program, which has expanded under for two decades under sanctions – from below 200 centrifuges in 2003 to 19,000 today. The US would effectively have to go to war with Iran to destroy its nuclear
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The pattern of Yemen’s descent into chaos is likely to repeat, possibly in more significant countries like Egypt. That pattern is repressive, secular regimes backed by the West become illegitimate, become more repressive to survive, and whose opposition becomes more extreme, religious and violent. Learning
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Netanyahu’s alternative to the Iran nuclear deal is divorced from reality – his predictions about Iran’s nuclear threat have been wrong for 25 years. Without a nuclear deal, Iran in 10 years will have 50,000 centrifuges, massive stocks of highly enriched uranium, new facilities, thousands of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Zanny Minton Beddoes at The Economist said: The economy’s fundamental drivers, particularly rapid technological change, means that the rewards disproportionately go to the top. The latest IMF research suggests that you get stronger and more lasting economic growth in societies that are more equal. The last time
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The theory that “we fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here” is still wrong and would commit the US to a fool’s errand for decades. Cherif Kouachi, one of the Paris terrorists, testified that it was American intervention in the Middle East
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Movie studios and theaters have made a mistake in not affirming freedom of expression regarding the movie “The Interview”. In the late 1930s, the UK wanted to ban distribution of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” to appease Nazi Germany. Obama’s strategy of pressuring Russia and making
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Tunisia is more developed, more urban, more literate, and more globalized than Egypt, and has a more diverse civil society, stronger labor unions, civic associations, professional groups. Tunisia’s relative success suggests there is nothing inherent in Islam or Arab society that makes it impossible
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Thomas Friedman writes: Is the US and Saudi Arabia engaged in another global war with Russia and Iran like when they pumped the former Soviet Union to death? Oil export revenues account for 60% of Iran’s government revenues and more than 50% of Russia’s. Oil producers Libya,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Gates said: While ground forces will undoubtedly get smaller, we must not get fixed on the idea that high technology is the only answer to military challenges. “No matter how a war starts it always ends in mud” – General Stillwell WWII Pentagon bureaucracy is structured to plan for
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