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11.4.25

In the 250-year history of the United States, American Presidents have committed many unethical and illegal acts; however, they were usually investigated and punished by the legislative and/or judicial branches of our federal government.

Unfortunately, 2025 appears to be the worst year ever for the number of unethical and illegal acts committed by a single President. In the process of executing a strategy designed to censor the media, usurp the power of Congress, and intimidate federal judges, Donald Trump is unique.

As the recent No Kings marches have demonstrated, seven million Americans are now actively opposing the Trump administration. Recent polls indicate the majority of our citizens support the protestors.

At this point, it appears the U.S. federal appeals courts and U.S. Supreme Court are the last lines of defense against Trump’s unprecedented overreach of Presidential authority.

To explore this subject, Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that public interest advocate and distinguished attorney Peter Cohen is now available for public speaking and seminars.

Cohen is the author of the highly praised new book In the Supreme Court’s Own Words: First Principles for Checking Presidential Power and Preserving the Republic which addresses the following questions:

Is the President of the United States above the law?
When can he constitutionally impose military force upon a civilian population?
Can he arrest and imprison people without due process?
Can he ignore the will of Congress, or defy the Supreme Court?

Written by a veteran litigator and legal educator, and supported by over seven hundred endnotes of research, In the Supreme Court’s Own Words (now available on Amazon at https://shorturl.at/o1Na8) not only reflects a lifetime of legal engagement and constitutional inquiry – it delivers an accessible account of how the Constitution operates under stress. The result is a timely and necessary reflection on the rule of law for the purpose of preserving the American Republic.

In recognition of his expertise, Cohen has been designated a Virginia Super Lawyer each year since 2008, one of the top 100 Lawyers in the Washington Metropolitan Area over the past several years, and a Washington DC Super Lawyer in 2013 and 2014.

If you would like to have Attorney Peter Cohen speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

8.11.25

For Americans who care about environmental conservation, climate change, the poor, workers’ rights, and consumer protection, the actions of the Trump administration have been shocking. Almost all the experienced civil servants in the federal government who were protecting our citizens from a wide range of unethical and exploitative business activities have been fired.

Fortunately, there are forces in motion that continue to advocate for civilized standards of behavior coming, from of all places, the business world.

And it’s not so much about the large, public corporations, many of whom have been retreating from public stances on these issues. Instead, there is a growing number of privately held, mid-size corporations that are dedicated to treating employees and consumers fairly. They are also committed to protecting our natural environment.

To discuss this positive story, Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Stuart L. Hart, a longtime advocate for ethical capitalism, is now available for interviews and public speaking

Hart is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, and Professor in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. He is also a co-founder and former Director of the Sustainable Innovation MBA program at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business.

A Fortune 500 consultant, Hart is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. He is the author of the highly praised new book Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future (Stanford Business Books 2024) and Capitalism at the Crossroads.

In recognition of his expertise, Professor Hart has been a featured speaker at numerous national and international conferences including the Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise in New York and the Annual Heinz Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He was also the keynote speaker at Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum.

If you would like to interview Professor Hart or have him speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

6.17.25

There are so many ways Wall Street investment promoters deceive investors, it is now necessary to rely on the most qualified and ethical financial advisors to identify all the risks.

Many of the money-making concepts that have failed in recent years were organized as Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC’s), Alternative Investment Tax Shelters, Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds, and Private Equity Ventures. What these products had in common were high management fees and profit participation for the sellers.

As part of our effort to educate the public, Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Daniel Peris, Ph.D., CFA is now available for public speaking and private seminars.

Daniel is the author of the highly praised new book The Ownership Dividend (London: Routledge, 2024). He is a distinguished investment historian and Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes, one of America’s largest investment management companies.

In The Ownership Dividend, Peris provides valuable insights that can benefit any institutional or individual investment analysis. His latest thesis focuses on why dividend paying stocks, which have been out of favor in recent decades, are likely to do well in the future.

The Ownership Dividend has generated favorable comments from The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. In the past year, Daniel has been interviewed by the most respected investment podcasts including Morningstar The Long View, Hidden Forces, CFA Institute, Tom Keene Bloomberg, Investors’ Chronicle, and The Motley Fool.

Daniel Peris graduated with a B.A. from Williams College. He then earned his M.Phil. at Oxford University and Ph.D. in Russian history at the University of Illinois.

If you would like to have Daniel speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

3.20.24

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Columbia Business School adjunct Professor Jaime Lester, author of the highly praised new book Pause to Think: Using Mental Models to Learn and Decide (Columbia University Press 2024), is now available for interviews and public speaking.

Lester is a respected Wall Street investment advisor who specialized in risk analysis for over 25 years. During his distinguished career, he focused on how investment decisions are made, how people can be misled by unscrupulous management teams and promoters, and the importance of a clear and repeatable decision-making framework.

Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines, as well as cognitive and behavioral research, Lester offers step-by-step guidance on how to improve critical thinking and decision making. He also helps readers improve their reasoning skills – especially in the fields of finance, economics, and statistics.

In Pause to Think Lester demonstrates how most career and quality of life decisions can be improved by utilizing some or most of his 32 concepts which are incorporated into five key frameworks – Decisions, Learning, Understanding, Investing, and Happiness.

Jaime graduated from Harvard University in 1997 where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics. He then attended the Columbia University Business School where he graduated in 2002 with an MBA in Finance.

If you would like to interview Jaime Lester or have him speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

12.17.24

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that public interest advocate Paul Shotton, Ph.D. is now available for interviews, lectures, and private seminars. Paul is the author of the highly praised new book Doomed To Fail: Why Government is Incapable of Living Up to Our Hopes.

Mr. Shotton has an unusual background that qualifies him to analyze the effectiveness of the United States federal government’s capability to solve national problems. His distinguished career on Wall Street focused on risk analysis where his assessments influenced investment and lending decisions that involved billions of dollars.

In Doomed To Fail, Shotton presents a large organization analysis that relies on understanding that human societies are complex adaptive systems, the nature of which has important ramifications for the way in which countries organize themselves politically and economically.

Paul was born in the United Kingdom and educated at the University of Oxford where he became a physics PhD. Intending to embark on a career in academia, he worked at the European Center for Nuclear Physics Research until deciding to switch careers which led him to become a citizen of the United States.

Today, Mr. Shotton is a renowned figure in the fields of finance, risk management, and executive leadership. During his thirty year career, he has held high-level positions at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and UBS.

Paul has been a featured speaker at numerous national and international conferences. He has also presented his insights at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus), the Yale School of Management, and ETH (Switzerland’s premier technical university).

If you would like to interview Paul Shotton or have him speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

9.23.24

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that legendary environmentalist David A. Bainbridge has published another highly praised book. Accountability: Why We Need to Count Social and Environmental Cost for A Livable Future makes a compelling case that we must hold consumers along with the national and international business communities accountable for the harm they cause.

In Accountability, Bainbridge asserts:

“For too long, corporations and business owners have damaged the natural environment and foisted the costs on the public and future generations. Since the unprecedented harm caused by climate change is now evident for everyone to see, it is time to start requiring the payment of remediation and impact fees. Also, we can now apply true cost accounting in the agriculture, building, energy, fishing, transportation, and other industries.”

Accountability effectively describes the urgency of today’s threats including heat waves, flooding, droughts, and wildfires. Its vision for a new economy proposes strong incentives for ecological responsibility. There are also recommendations for what nonprofits, schools, and government agencies might do to effect change in relation to the climate crisis.

David A. Bainbridge grew up in the West, spending his formative years in the dry lands east of the North Cascades. He completed his BA in Earth Sciences at UC San Diego and MS in Ecology at UC Davis. David’s research on passive solar heating and cooling in the 1970s led to the Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society in 2004.

In addition to Accountability: Why We Need to Count Social and Environmental Cost for A Livable Future (June 2023), Bainbridge has written thirty-one other books including award-winners Gardening with Less Water (Storey Press 2015) and Passive Solar Architecture (Chelsea Green 2011).

If you would like to interview David A. Bainbridge or have him speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins or Bonnie Lennon at Straight Arrow PR, 727-647-8453 (Tampa Bay, Florida).

12.4.23

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Santa Clara University law professor David L. Sloss, author of Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (Stanford U. Press 2022), has been selected as one of eight books nominated for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award.

Tyrants on Twitter is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media platforms for the purpose of subverting the liberal international order.

David is a popular public speaker who has recently lectured on this subject at the Cambridge Forum in Boston, Yale University, The University of Pennsylvania, and other prestigious forums.

Previously, Sloss served as Director of the Nuclear Safeguards & Technology Division for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. During his nine-year career in government, he helped draft and negotiate three major East-West arms control treaties.

Professor Sloss is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. 1996). He also earned degrees from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (M.P.P. 1983) and Hampshire College (B.A. 1981).

If you would like to interview David or have him speak before your group on this important subject, please contact Bill Hawkins at Straight Arrow PR.

9.11.23

In recent years, private equity firms have gobbled up physician and dental practices, home care and hospice agencies, substance abuse, eating disorder, and autism services as well as urgent care facilities and emergency medical transportation companies. This has led to lower quality care, higher costs for patients, and a greater workload for employees.

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Lehigh University professor Laura Katz Olson is now available for interviews and public speaking to discuss this threat to our healthcare system.

Olson is the author of the highly praised book Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms Healthcare (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022) which received the 2022 North American Book Award and the 2023 Axiom Best Business Book Award.

According to Professor Olson:

“The private equity industry has grown rapidly. In 2021, buyouts totaled a record $1.1 trillion, doubling from 2020. The largest money management firms in the U.S. involved include Blackstone Group, KKR & Co., Carlyle Group, and Apollo Management Inc. There are also many other players of various sizes.”

“Private equity firms have long advanced the narrative that they save failing companies with superior management strategies; however, today’s private equity moneymaking formula often works like this: 1) Purchase a profitable business as a platform, mostly with debt. 2) Create a de facto monopoly in the area by adding on smaller places – like a soon to be retired medical doctor’s family practice. 3) Enhance revenues by lowering operating expenses that often harm quality of care. 4) Raise the prices for medical services and supplies.”

Laura Katz Olson is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. She has published widely on topics related to aging and healthcare. Olson has authored nine highly praised academic books including: Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care; Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines; and The Politics of Medicaid.

6.10.23

Transnational money laundering is a major problem that is now out of control. The players include organized crime groups, large corporations, dictators, and wealthy individuals around the world.

This shadowy business has operations in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and North America, and uses real estate, luxury goods, private equity, and more. Businesses and wealthy individuals avoid paying hundreds of billions in taxes, with nearly $10 trillion laundered annually – ten percent of global GDP.

And according to a renowned investigative reporter, the key component of this international dark money network is the United States.

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Casey Michel is now available for interviews and public speaking to discuss this important subject – which increasingly affects American citizens.

Michel is the author of the highly praised book American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (St. Martin’s Press 11.23.21).

According to Casey, “Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have created financial instruments that allow criminals from around the world to launder their money and invest it in the U.S.”

In American Kleptocracy, we also learn about the links between political leaders and corruption. Autocrats like Hugo Chávez, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump attack and undermine the independent press, the civil service, and the judiciary for the purpose of weakening their ability to discover that they or their friends have broken the law.

Casey Michel is a writer and journalist based in New York City. His work on offshoring, kleptocracy, and financial secrecy has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among others.

Michel is a fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative, where he co-hosts an award-winning podcast on corruption, and he recently testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on oligarchs, money laundering, and kleptocracy.

4.19.23

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Santa Clara University law professor David L. Sloss, an authority on information warfare and state sponsored disinformation, will be the featured speaker at the prestigious Cambridge Forum in Boston on Tuesday, May 6th.

This ZOOM webinar session is open to the public and will begin at 5 PM (EST). Pre-register!

The program will also be broadcast on over 50 public radio stations across the United States.

For more information on Professor Sloss and his book Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (Stanford U. Press 2022), see an overview of his press release below.

2.28.23

Since 1945, the United States and other democracies have shaped the world order, leading to unprecedented peace, prosperity, and individual freedom.

Today, Russia, China, and other authoritarian states are working together to build a new international order that is hostile to democracy and human rights. In addition to massive military buildups, Russia and China have invested heavily in global media and information technology systems designed to strengthen autocracies and undermine existing democracies.

By injecting massive amounts of propaganda—as well as false, misleading, and deceptive information – into both conventional media and social media platforms, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are causing an enormous amount of ongoing harm around the world.

Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that Santa Clara University law professor David L. Sloss, an authority on information warfare and state sponsored disinformation, is now available for public speaking and interviews to comment on this subject.

David is the author of the highly praised new book Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (Stanford U. Press 2022).

In addition to examining the 2016 U.S. election, Professor Sloss explores Russia’s use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe. He also analyzes China’s use of global information operations to meddle in Western democracies and buttress autocratic rulers around the world.

During the past year, David has lectured on this subject at Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, American University, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others.

Professor Sloss is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. 1996). He also earned degrees from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (M.P.P. 1983) and Hampshire College (B.A. 1981).

12.16.22

The New York Times editorialized recently that “America has a Free Speech Problem.” Why? The Times observes “it’s because the political left and the right are caught in a destructive loop of condemnation and recrimination around cancel culture.” And all too often, the warring sides call on government to reinforce their tribal view of the world.

These polarized positions play out in current controversies that include disputes over hate speech, critical race theory, how to teach American history, social media censorship, free speech on campus, and a host of other issues. And, despite the fact that the New York Times poll found that 66 percent of respondents agreed that our democracy is built upon the free, open and safe exchange of ideas, only 34 percent said they believed all Americans enjoyed freedom to speak freely, and 84 percent of adults agreed it was a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem that people silence themselves because of fear of reprisals.

To discuss past and present efforts to limit free speech here in America, Straight Arrow PR is pleased to announce that renowned First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere is available for public speaking and interviews.

Robert is the author of The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder – The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma (Cambridge University Press 2021). He is regularly listed as a leading First Amendment and media law practitioner by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White), SuperLawyers Washington, D.C., and by Chambers USA (Chambers & Partners). Best Lawyers in America named him Washington, D.C.’s “Lawyer of the Year” in the areas of First Amendment Law in 2019 and 2021, and Media Law for 2022. Mr. Corn-Revere has served as lead counsel in precedent-setting First Amendment cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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