The reliability of the New York-based investment research firm MSCI’s environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings for thousands of U.S. and international enterprises is undergoing critical scrutiny...
The U.S. has an opportunity to fundamentally reshape global relations in our favor and to benefit the West. We should seize the moment.
A Response By Richard Goldberg
The New York-based MSCI, Inc., imposed “severe controversy” environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings on two Illinois-based companies for doing business in territories controlled by Israel,...
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter on March 28 to financial analytics firm MSCI Inc. following a report the firm may be imposing punitive environmental,...
Cut its Chinese Communist ties
Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?
Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...
Hamas reportedly released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, on October 20. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the development to ABC News. The Israeli prime...
Few Americans have probably heard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Last week, the IAEA’s board of governors convened in Vienna to hear from its director...
Countries from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, over the past week for the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, but Taiwan was not among them. Pressure from Beijing thwarted requests...
Open ties between the two nations are in everyone’s interest, but it will take serious intent and deft maneuvering from America to get there. Is the administration up to it?
Iran has begun reinstalling surveillance cameras and monitoring technologies at key nuclear sites ahead of a June International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, according to a reporter for The Wall...
The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) this week reported that Sustainalytics — the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. — imposes negative “controversy” ratings on...
The Communists in Beijing have grand ambitions
The State Department is fighting to keep it alive, even if an agreement benefits Russia and China.
The investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. committed last October to making changes to its Sustainalytics environmental, social, and governance (ESG) subsidiary’s research in response to FDD’s ongoing...
Israel boycotters have a new home for waging economic war against the world’s only Jewish state: environmental, social and governance ratings. Federal and state officials should respond by demanding...
United Nations sanctions are already on the books—they just need to be reactivated.
The U.S. is offering Iran the deal of the millennium, and yet the Islamic Republic—and Russia—want more concessions.