There isn't much bandwidth for planning how to use the G20 presidency to achieve clear goals, turkey's soft power has declined so rapidly over the last two years. Turkey doesn't have the same credibility on the G20 stage as it would have had a couple of years back.

Jonathan Friedman

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The reality is the stakes are very high. If your industry is targeted or your company is sued in a class action, your legal costs will soar.

Jonathan Friedman

cost class reality

Your processes are amazingly fast, yet flexible, and the people at Screaming Circuits, from finance to the factory floor, are all knowledgeable and a joy to work with.

Jonathan Friedman

finance joy people

It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.

Jonathan Friedman

top-news

The Turkish security services have cut off Ocalan. As a result, he has not been able to have much influence during the recent outbreak of conflict.

Jonathan Friedman

top-news

That the sanctity of the ballot box is now an issue, in a country with a long record of fair elections, highlights a lack of confidence in the rule of law in Turkey, these concerns are also spreading in the business community.

Jonathan Friedman

world

Hakan Fidan is Erdogan's man in Turkey's intelligence community. He is at the centre of the Kurdish peace talks ... and Turkey's Syrian policy. Who can replace him.

Jonathan Friedman

industrials

Hakan Fidan is Erdogan’s man in Turkey’s intelligence community. He is at the center of the Kurdish peace talks ... and Turkey’s Syrian policy. Who can replace him.

Jonathan Friedman

world

People are not OK with a 4-year-old boy being circumcised -- a conscious, articulate boy. That's just not OK, not everyone is against circumcisions, but I think everyone is against a 4-year-old's circumcision.

Jonathan Friedman

us

Whether that's in the school board or whether that's in a library, somebody wants something gone and it appears to be going. At their meetings, there's no resistance, there's no friction, there's no one in some of these rooms saying' well, hold on a minute, let's make sure we exercise due diligence, due process, consider the kind of diversity of opinions as people who our institution serves,'.

Jonathan Friedman

Challenges to books, specifically books by non-White male authors, are happening at the highest rates we've ever seen, what is happening in this country in terms of banning books in schools is unparalleled in its frequency, intensity, and success.

Jonathan Friedman

Unfortunately, Matt Krause is following a trend of elected officials weaponizing censorship and antagonizing educators and librarians for political gain. It goes without saying that this discriminatory witch hunt should be dropped.

Jonathan Friedman