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After the G20: What Was Achieved?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Michelle Obama, Regulation, Barack Obama, g20, Stimulous, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

What was accomplished? Some windows were broken. A demonstrator died, The police, as usual, overreacted. The media has moved on. In all, not too encouraging.

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Re-Setting the Geopolitical Table: How Obama's Big Trip Is Going

William Bradley | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Prague, Vladimir Putin, London, Gordon Brown, Nato, Barack Obama, Poland, Germany, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Czech Republic, Iraq, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ankara, Dmitri Medvedev, Anti-Missile Shield, G-20, World News

The G-20 went well. Not as well as advertised, which is par for most any political course, but much better than most of the Gs -- 7, 8, or 20.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lebanon, Hu Jintao, Hague Summit, Arab Summit, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, G20 Summit, Manmohan Singh, Iraq Security, Angela Merkel, Turkey Summit, Israel, Palestinian Unity Talks, Azerbaijan, Nato Summit, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:New Israeli Leadership Sounds the Drumbeat to War Facts: Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Li...

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What Europe Really Needs is a Good Shrink

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sweden, Silvio Berlusconi, Angela Merkel, European Union, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, g20, Nicolas Sarkozy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Shrink, World News

Europe needs to make some huge psychological leap. I am living in Sweden and honestly, President Obama seems to care more about me than any of the big European leaders.

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G-20: I See England, I See France...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Dmitri Medvedev, Michelle Obama, London Summit, G-20 Summit, Hu Jintao, Angela Merkel, Protectionism, Economic Stimuls, Group of 20, Barack Obama, Global Economic Crisis, Nicolas Sarkozy, g20, Obama and Queen Elizabeth, France, World News

First the skinny guy shakes everybody's hand -- then he tells us he's got a cold!

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Obama's Foreign Policy: Nothing Personal

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, G20 Summit, Special Relationship, Bin Laden, President Obama, Great Britain, g20, Al Qaeda, State Dinner, World News

Obama has to walk a pretty fine line on his current trip. He must demonstrate leadership without looking like the United States still has the ability -- or the credibility -- to define the agenda.

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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Live from the G-20 Summit: Another Blogger Breakthrough

Sam Graham-Felsen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sam Graham Felsen, Bloggers, Sam Stein, Richard Murphy, g20voice, G-20, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Media News

Today, at the G-20 Summit in London, blogger Richard Murphy was called on by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- another historic breakthrough for the blogosphere.

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G-20 Leaders Arrive At Summit (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Video, Barack Obama, G-20 Video, g20 Leaders, Foreign Affairs, G-20 Summit, g20 Video, g20, G-20, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

G-20 leaders arrived at the Excel Center in London today. Watch British Prime Minister Gordon Brown greet the heads of state. ...

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Alison Woodhead: Brown's Busiest Day

G20Voice | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Australia, Kevin Rudd, G20 - London, United Kingdom, Oxfam, g20, g20voice, londonsummit2009, Global Financial Crisis, World News

Gordon Brown repeatedly made the point that Thursday is part of a process of building a new economy; not an attempt to solve it all in one day.

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Limbaugh: Obama May Give Gordon Brown "Anal Poisoning"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, Video, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Andrew Klavan, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Hate Speech, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Anal Poisoning, Politics News

Wow. Whatever bet L.A. Times columnist Andrew Klavan thought he was making by daring people to listen to Rush Limbaugh and find one instance of the t...

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G-20 Protesters Break Into Royal Bank Of Scotland In London (SLIDESHOW)

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, G-20 Summit, Barack Obama, England, G-20 Protests, g20-2009, G20 Protests, London, g20, Financial Fool's Day, G-20, g20 Protest, Slideshow, g20 Protest Photos, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland, G20 Protesters, G-20 Protesters, g20 Obama Protesters, Rbs Workers at G-20, Rbs G-20 Video, Rbs g20, G-20 Protesters Break Into Royal Bank of Scotland, Protests g20, Protesters g20, g20 Protest Pictures, Rbs News, United Kingdom, London-United Kingdom, World News

LONDON - G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in downtown London on Wednesday, breaking into the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and smashi...

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G-20 Summit: Schedule, Photos, Video, Updates

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

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Political and financial leaders and delegates are convening In London for Thursday's G-20 Summit, which will address the global financial crisis. Bac...

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Merkel Attacks British PM Brown's Plan For "Global New Deal"

Times London | Jonathan Oliver and Bojan Pancevski | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business

Read More: G-20 Summit, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown, Global Economy, Economy, g20, Germany, Business News

Gordon Brown's carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders. Angela M...

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U.K. May Change Monarchy Marriage Rules

Wall Street Journal | AARON O. PATRICK | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Gordon Brown, Prince Harry, UK Monarcy, Prince William, United Kingdom, World News

The prohibition on British monarchs marrying Catholics, and the primacy of princes over princesses in regal succession would become relics of history ...

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G-20 Summit: Gordon Brown Optimistic

BBC | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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Mr Brown says he is optimistic about the summit after Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown said it had to produce more than "empty promises"....

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Biden Pens Op-Ed To Latin America

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Joe Biden Vp, Latin America, United Kingdom, Brazil, Biden Op-Ed, Foreign Affairs, Argentina, Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Spain, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Gordon Brown, Biden, Advocacy, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, World News

Vice President Biden is currently in Chile for the Progressive Governance Summit, where he will meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, UK Prim...

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Biden Visits Chile For Progressive Governance Summit

AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is in Chile to attend a summit of leaders from Latin America and Europe. Biden flew to Chile...

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Doesn't Anybody Have Any Doubts About How We're Doing This?

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Mervyn King, Keynesian Economics, Britain, Government Bailout, Economic Stimulus Package, Spending, Business News

Who is going to play Mervyn King in America -- who'll play the prudent voice of reason? Not the obstructionist Republicans who long ago got disqualified from reasonableness.

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Gordon Brown Slams Bankers' 'Avarice' During NY Speech

Mail Online | Sam Fleming and Benedict Brogan | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

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Gordon Brown attacked the behaviour of bankers today as he appeared to retreat from ordering a new giveaway Budget to stimulate the economy. Speaki...

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DVDs Obama Sent British PM Don't Work

Telegraph UK | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama DVDs, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown Obama Dvds, President Obama Dvds, Obama Gordon Brown, President Obama, Politics News

While not exactly a film buff, Gordon Brown was touched when Barack Obama gave him a set of 25 classic American movies - including Psycho, starring An...

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World Government

Scott Malcomson | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: US Economy, Gordon Brown, Deficit, Sebastian Mallaby, Council on Foreign Relations, Group-of-20-Economy-Meeting, World Economy, Brad Setser, Brazil, Group-of-20, Quantitative Easing, Us Economic Crisis, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Bric, Mantega, World News

The FT columnist Gideon Rachman wrote a column a couple of months ago about the need for world government, and he got more and different readers than ...

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Gordon Brown Makes New Appeal To Iran Over Nuclear Program

guardian.co.uk | Allegra Stratton and Agencies | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Iran, Gordon Brown Iran Nuclear Power, England, Gordon Brown Iran, Iran Civil Nuclear Power, Iran Nuclear Program, World News

Gordon Brown today renewed his offer to Iran for international help in developing a civil nuclear power industry providing Tehran ends its uranium enr...

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If You are a G-20 Finance Minister, it's Crunch Time

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: London, Foreign Aid, Poverty, Finance, Economic Crisis, g20, Obama, Gordon Brown, Ministers, G-20, World News

Times of global financial downturn are often marked by cuts to aid, but these are the times when aid is most necessary and this is time to honor our aid commitments.

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Pity the Poor Englishman in Manhattan

Vicky Ward | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Foreign Workers, Business News

The protectionist amendments to the administration's stimulus bill will severely limit the number of H-1B visas. Britons who were due to start work here later this year will have their job offers rescinded.

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