An Iran bombshell, a bankers' bonus deal, and a climate-change cop-out. The Daily Beast presents the highs and lows of the G-20 summit.
The G-20 Bonus Madness
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
France will huff and puff at the G-20 sessions today. Germany will dig in its heels. But in the end, the U.S. and U.K. rule the global banking system-and they've pre-cooked a deal.
Mother Nature's Nuclear Strike
John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, is the junior senator from Massachusetts and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Climate change poses a catastrophic threat for all G-8 nations, writes the former Democratic nominee for president in a security memo he likens to President Bush's pre-9/11 warning.
Obama's G-8 Trip
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The president has a full agenda with international leaders at this week's G-8 summit. View our gallery of their roundtable meetings and his arrival with Michelle in Italy.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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