HuffPost Daily Brief: Syria Bomb Blast.. Secret Service Scandal.. Fake N.Korean Missiles

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Regime Blames Opposition For Bomb That Kills 16 BEIRUT -- Syrian state media said Thursday that anti-regime bomb-makers accidentally set off blasts a day earlier that flattened parts of a residential area in the central city of Hama and killed at least 16 people. Former Liberian President Convicted Of War Crimes Analysts: North Korea's New Missiles Are Fake Pakistani PM Convicted Of Contempt Secret Service Investigating Another Trip Israeli Military Chief: Iran Will Not Build Nuclear Weapon BLOG POSTS Marcelo Giugale: Why Do Obvious Reforms Never Happen? The Political Economy of Things Why is it that obvious reforms don't get done? Because behind every status-quo, there is a complex cobweb of vested interests of people, institutions, and corporations -- "actors" -- who would be hurt by change, so they stop it. Lou YK: How Russia Has Been Hedging Its Bets on Syria Russia is now the key to the survival of the Assad regime and only when it begins to see the Assad regime as a liability will Syria be settled. Robert Reich: How Europe's Double Dip Could Become America's What's the problem with Europe? Don't blame it on the so-called "debt crisis." There was no debt crisis in Britain, for example, which is now experiencing its first double-dip recession since the 1970s. Blame it on austerity economics. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Is it Possible to Salvage the Faltering Syrian "Ceasefire" An absence of imaginative, strategic diplomacy as the year-long crisis in Syria unfolded has caught the U.S. with dwindling options as the oxymoronic UN ceasefire collapses. Consequences abound as a result for U.S. interests across the region. Otaviano Canuto: Less Poor but More Unequal Debates over inequality -- and the role governments should play -- have polarized political and economic debates. How much should inequality matter or weigh in policy making?

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