USA: Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism - by Morgan Gstalter

A group of Jewish leaders told President Trump that he is no longer welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism following the shooting at a synagogue there over the weekend.

Eleven members of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice penned a letter to Trump following the Saturday shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

"Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted," the group wrote. "You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country."

Trump was fiercely criticized after he failed to condemn white supremacy and asserted that there is "blame on both sides" after last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The group also said Trump is not welcome in the city until he also stops targeting minorities, immigrants and refugees.

The president has "spread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America," the group wrote.

"The Torah teaches that every human being is made b'tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. This means all of us," the leaders wrote. "In our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God."

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Guardian: G20 - World's leaders can give Pittsburgh a truly global vision by address four key issues - by Kofi Annan, Amartya Sen, M. Camdessus

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G20 - World's leaders can give Pittsburgh a truly global vision by address four key issues - by Kofi Annan, Amartya Sen, M. Camdessus

First, leaders need to follow through with the commitments they have made to a Global Plan for Recovery and Reform. A second area of action: ensuring that developing countries, including the least developed ones, have a greater say in global financial institutions; and strengthening regional bodies. A third achievement would be: agreement on a timetable for tackling the variety of biased trade rules, bloated subsidy regimes, intellectual property rules and other forms of market distortion that heavily disadvantage the developing world. Lastly, the G20 could also help drive momentum on climate change. Its members account for the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions; an agreement among them at Pittsburgh would go a long way towards ensuring that December's international climate change conference in Copenhagen does not end in hot air.

Post Gazette: G20: EU Profile - The $18.4 trillion European Union economy is larger than the U.S. economy - by Michael Goldfarb

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G20: EU Profile - The $18.4 trillion European Union economy is larger than the U.S. economy

Though it might stretch the imagination of some American legislators and commentators, the European Union economy taken as a whole, at $18.4 trillion, according to the International Monetary Fund, is larger than the U.S. economy. It is as varied as that of America's. Heavy industry is concentrated in the core countries: Germany, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg), France and the U.K. Italy and France are the world's leading manufacturers of luxury goods. The EU has a trade surplus with the U.S. (who doesn't?) worth more than $114 million. In the years immediately preceding the crash a third of the world's trade in goods and more than 40 percent of trade in services was between the U.S. and the EU. The EU has a trade deficit with China (who doesn't?) worth $241 million. Last year direct investment in China from EU member states totaled $5.9 billion.

At the G20 summit in Pittsburgh the EU will continue to press for closer scrutiny of banker pay and bonuses. But practically, Mr. Barroso speaks for no one. The EU, via the EC, negotiates trade issues on behalf of its members and it is very effective at doing so -- just ask any American trade negotiator who has taken a dispute with Europe to the WTO.