Well said

The must-read on what the G8 and the G20 ultimately mean comes from Gerald Caplan:

While political leaders yammer away, big business acts. And it often acts with the active support of their governments and embassies abroad. While the rich world presents itself as the savior of the poor, giant pharmaceutical companies price vital drugs out of the reach of most poor people; asbestos companies export their deadly product, banned in the rich world, to poor countries; tobacco giants, whose boards are choc-a-bloc with former politicians, university presidents and other respected members of the community, ramp up their lavish advertising campaigns to turn poor country citizens into cigarette addicts; mining companies bribe officials of poor countries (who are later denounced for being corrupt) to plunder their resources at minimal cost, paying little in taxes and royalties and less in wages while creating environmental disasters.

What do you call those who have the capacity to reduce hunger, poverty and disease with a stroke of the pen, and fail to act? What do you call those who are knowingly responsible for causing death and suffering to millions of fellow citizens? What do you call those who deny to the poor the benefits that we in the rich world take for granted? You call them the G8.

(Edit: fixed typo.)