Fatster’s news roundup from Memorial Day Weekend, including stories on Syria, UN Security Council, Nick Clegg, Bahrain, Greece, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Berlusconi, China, Fukushima, Brazil, Honduras, and more . . .

The conservative theories about starving public spending as a way to jump-start private investment have been proven completely wrong by this test case. Austerity during a fragile recovery is destroying Britain. As Brad DeLong writes, if there’s any country where this myth of expansionary austerity should have worked, it was Britain. But it’s not working at all.

I can’t help but wonder whether William Lynn is using the term “adversary” rather loosely.