G-20

This seems almost too weird to be true, but Wired reports that on Oct. 1, federal agents seized the computers, manuscripts and pickaxes of an anarchist social worker in Queens, N.Y., claiming he violating anti-rioting laws on Twitter.

Perhaps Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s new, harsher rhetoric on Iran has a specific catalyst. The New York Times reports that President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy will disclose that Iran has for years constructed an undisclosed — and as-yet-unoperational — nuclear facility. The announcement is set for 8:30 this [...]

That’s perhaps the boldest declaration in the joint statement from G-20 world leaders meeting today in London.
The communiqué, which pledges $1.1 trillion in global stimulus spending and tighter supervision and regulation of the global economy, did not commit the leaders to another round of stimulus spending as President Obama wanted, nor cross-border financial regulation as [...]