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“CIA skeletons created huge stink over Capital Hill” A covert CIA spying program that the U.S. Congress knew nothing about provoked mass debates, and people now doubt Congress can oversee intelligence issues, says U.S. journalist Tim Starks from Congressional Quarterly.

“G8 provided weak statements on world financial crisis” The statements issued by the G8 during its recent summit will only lead to a further crippling of the global economy, says independent blogger Nicolle Kardell from Washington, D.C.

CIA confesses to skeletons in the closet The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency confessed that since 2001 it has failed to tell Congress the truth about its clandestine operations on numerous occasions.

Democracy's stronghold lacking freedom What does freedom look like? For many Americans it is Las Vegas – Sin City, where anything goes and government sits on the sidelines.

Is North Korea making another weapon altogether? North Korea appears to be determined to trouble the water these days, but are those just circles on the surface it is creating, or will we soon find ourselves in the deep end?

The untold story of Aleksandr Lukashenko On this day 15 years ago Belarus chose its first irreplaceable president, but what is behind the rhetoric of the “last dictator of Europe”? It is time to take a look into this long-lasting presidency.

ROAR: “Japan will never reclaim the Southern Kurils” As Russia and Japan are at loggerheads again over the four Southern Kuril Islands, it is the local population that is suffering the most during the dispute.

“The G8 has to choose between environment and development” The G8 has to decide whether development or the environment is more important, says independent blogger Nena Bartlett, since there can be no development without industrialization.

Will Georgian opposition outlast the summer? The political stalemate in Georgia is taking a new twist. The Georgian government has recently worked out a draft law on manifestations – something which the opposition stands firmly against.

Netanyahu’s father says his son didn't really mean what he said To the ranks of skeptics about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declared readiness to accept a Palestinian state was added a formidable figure – Netanyahu’s very own father.

ROAR: A developed world is not enough Participants of the G8 summit in Italy have taken another step towards increasing the size of its club.

Japan attempts to redraw post-war borders The territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the Kuril Islands dominated discussions as President Dmitry Medvedev meets Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on the sidelines of the G8.

US national security expanding under Obama The US government has allegedly set up a special security wing with the sole task of distancing Washington from any involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Did nano-thermite take down the WTC? Could the most audacious terrorist attack in history be a “sophisticated masterpiece of demolition”?

Is Darfur conflict a state-sponsored genocide? Darfur has been plagued by an intense six-year-long ethnic conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced two million from their homes, but does the West really know what's going on in Darfur?

“When I become a socialist NYC Mayor…” New York’s mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, the seventeenth richest person in the world, is running for a third term in office, but he faces a challenge from a determined single mother socialist.

“Major concession by Russia to the US” “We have not been told what concessions America made in return for the flights to Afghanistan [via Russia]. If none, Medvedev and Putin will have to answer to the Russian political class,” says Stephen Cohen, NYU.

“Helping US in Afghanistan may make Russia a target of Al Qaeda” If Russia helps the US in Afghanistan it may be targeted by Al Qaeda, says defense analyst Ivan Eland, since the Islamic movement often hits US allies instead of faraway America.

“G8 – not the right place to decide on a crisis” Former member of the European Parliament, Julietto Chiesa, believes that the G8 does not have the power to make decisions on big questions, especially financial matters, without the participation of China.

"Summits like G8, G20 bring no earth-shaking results" There are rarely any earth-shattering decisions that come out of summits like G8 or G20, said Chuck Hagel, chairman of the Atlantic Council of the US, but identifying the most pressing issues is nonetheless important.

“We face a broad array of crises” John Kirton, the director of the G8 research group based at the University of Toronto, Canada, provides an analysis into the G8 summit agenda and the potential decisions, difficulties and agreements it may result in.

“AMD issue not resolved” Former US Senator Gary Hart, who is one of the co-chairs of the bipartisan Commission on US Policy Towards Russia comments on the outcomes of Obama’s visit and discusses some of the issues left unresolved.

ROAR: “Obama is a tandem of power himself” Analysts and media in Russia are not sure that Moscow and Washington really have reset relations during Barack Obama’s visit.

“Medvedev & Obama agree to fight against protectionism” Ahead of the G8 summit the Russian and US leaders have agreed to discuss how to restructure the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, said Konstantin Kosachev, Head of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

“Putin and Obama had a very good opportunity to understand each other” The ultimate result of the Obama–Putin meeting was Obama’s statement that the Russian PM is a “man of today and he’s got his eyes firmly on the future,” says Putin’s press attaché Dmitry Peskov.

Guantanamo promise a test for Obama The saga of 229 Guantanamo Bay prisoners continues while the proposed deadline for closing the prison is only six months away.

G8 summit purely smoke and mirrors – Celente Is the G8 actually capable of solving the world’s financial problems? The founder and director of the Trend Research Institute in the US Gerald Celente isn’t holding his breath.

“Obama brings a big change in foreign policy” President Barack Obama represents a major change in US foreign policy, especially with regards to Georgian and Ukrainian plans to join NATO, believes John Laughland from the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation.

“Long-term vision – pick up on Medvedev’s invitation on Euro-Atlantic security” Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University: “Bringing Russia into the Euro-Atlantic community may make the issue of whether Ukraine and Georgia join NATO much less of an oppressing irritant in Russia-US relationship.”

Russian FM: Obama wants to rethink view of global situation As the official part of President Obama’s ended, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed optimism to Vesti TV about the US initiative to reset relations with Russia.

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