Federal judges James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch writing in National Review Online (NRO) condemn the recent silencing of discourse on various campuses of invited speakers including Federal judges by not only students but University leadership as well.
Risk and financial advisor group Kroll reports that environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulatory initiatives from the European Union (EU), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have significant ramifications on U.S. companies.
In the upcoming elections, Turkey’s opposition, led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is campaigning that should he take office, he can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, as well as implement the European Court of Human Rights decisions calling for the release of two of Erdoğan’s best-known opponents.
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) networks through the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) are active to gain access to Turkey’s multi-billion-dollar earthquake relief funds, aiming to use reconstruction as an opportunity to promote the MB’s Islamist message through mosque- and school-building projects.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has formed an alliance with 18 Republican governors to reject the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) agenda being pushed by President Joe Biden that especially affects American retirement funds through « woke » investments.
The Editorial Board of the the Wall Street Journal highlights the recent incident at Stanford Law School where a Federal Judge was not only interrupted by students but lectured by the assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) who had already sent out an email stating her disapproval of the Judge, demonstrating that DEI officers are more interested in promoting ideological conformity than diversity.
Federal judges James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch writing in National Review Online (NRO) discuss the recent silencing of discourse on various campuses of invited speakers including Federal judges by not only students but University leadership as well, making the point that « Administrators who promote intolerance don’t belong in legal education. And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession. »
Risk and financial advisor group Kroll reports that environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulatory initiatives from the European Union (EU), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have significant ramifications on U.S. companies.
As Silicon Valley Bank was failing, bank leadership, including a head of risk management continued to invest in « woke » initiatives such as LGBTQ+ programs encompassing a “safe space” for coming-out stories.
A resolution to overturn the Labor Department rule that enables fund managers to consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues for investments and shareholder rights decisions passed both houses of Congress and will be sent to President Biden, who is expected to veto the measure.
The French government has taken notice of the power and market value of social media influencers whose global worth was over €15 billion in 2022, setting a plan to regulate their commercial work, placing them under the same rules as traditional media.
In the upcoming elections, Turkey’s opposition, led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is campaigning that should he take office, he can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, as well as implement the European Court of Human Rights decisions calling for the release of two of Erdoğan’s best-known opponents.
Since coming into full force in January 2023, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has significantly expanded the existing EU regime for non-financial disclosure requirements currently governed by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), requiring large public and private companies with activities in the EU (including U.S. entities) to report on how their business model affects their sustainability, and on how external sustainability factors influence their activities.
The Global Terrorism Index 2023 underscores both the durability and complexity of political Islamism as a specific type of global terrorism, with data pointing to a shift in the regional epicenter of Islamist violence from the Mideast and North Africa (MENA) to Africa’s Sahel region and to the growth of Islamist extremist operations in South Asia, as well as an increase in the lethality of violent Islamist attacks and a change in the technologies used to perpetrate attacks, according to the newly-released 10th annual report from the Australia-based think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace.
A recently televised debate between two high-profile Sunni clerics in Saudi Arabia over the issue of the death penalty for apostates from Islam revealed the internal tensions and contradictions in global debates about the permissibility and scope of sharia jurisprudential reform in Islam, with one of the clerics supporting the reformist movement currently spearheaded by Indonesia’s colossal Islamic civil society movement Nahdlatul Ulama, and the other cleric walking in lockstep with the Saudi regime’s policies (also adopted by the Islamic monarchy in the United Arab Emirates) of social liberalizations that stop short of any legal changes in the sharia-based laws that perpetuate systemic discrimination against women and violations of religious freedom.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Secretary General issued an official statement lauding the China-brokered diplomatic rapprochement between the two Islamist regimes of Iran and Saudi Arabia, heralding the far-ranging cooperation agreement as an opportunity for more general, stronger cooperation among the 57 member-states of the global Islamic entity.
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