The G-8 Summit gets underway tomorrow in a little Japanese resort town of Toyako which is battened down with 20,000 security personnel and 5,000 credentialed press safely ensconced 20 miles away.The usual protestors have shown up but they have been placed even farther away from the tightly guarded venue. And to top off this rather strange event is the fact that the US leader is a lame duck, British PM Gordon Brown is in big trouble at home with a stagnating economy and potential massive strikes while France's Nicolas Sarkozy is seeing his approval ratings drop like a stone. Ditto for Japanese PM Fukada.In addition to the usual world crisis they won't do anything to solve, they will meet with delegations of African leaders who come hat in hand to these gatherings hoping that their sob stories pluck enough heartstrings to get them an increase in western aid. This time, they will also be forced to sit and listen to a lecture about Robert Mugabe and his cutthroat regime that the...(Read Full Post)