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Developing Nations Get a Say in Economic Summit

Kevin Spak — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:04:03 CST

When George Bush convenes his economic summit today, he’ll see some less familiar faces around the table. In what could signal a historic shift in global power, Bush hasn’t just invited the wealthy nations of the G-8 to this summit, but a wider Group of 20, including developing nations like...

McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:06:42 CDT

John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic —at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’s proposal for a league of democracies shows that the...

Obama Advisers Rip Mac Plan to Expel Russia From G-8

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:00:53 CDT

John McCain is off-base in his suggestion Russia should be booted from the Group of 8, two former Clinton cabinet officials—and current Obama advisers—write in the Los Angeles Times . Sure, Moscow has departed from democracy, Madeline Albright and William Perry allow, but the US stands a better chance...