Global Voices Online

Neeka's Backlog takes us on an introductory tour of the muscular posters and uncompromising ideology that are offered by Russia's National Bolshevik Party to attract support.

Nathan Hamm writes on Registan about India's attempts to compete for Central Asian energy resources.

Among the offerings from Pestiside are a lawsuit by the license-holders for Big Brother against a Hungarian reality-TV show, and special regulations to limit damage done by boozy Brits on overseas binges.

Sueandnotu rants about the apparently arbitrary changes to public transport and the road network in the Georgian capital, Tblisi.

this, that, & whatever, written from Barbados, has a difficult time reflecting on Hurricane Katrina and “the apparent ceaselessness and inevitability of the terrible … tragedy of the human condition.”

Oneworld Multimedia previews two rock bands from Georgia who will be taking part in tomorrow's music festival in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.

Tim's El Salvador Blog notes that the Salvadoran “National Assembly passed a measure Wednesday night recommending that the government send a contingent of troops to the region affected by Hurricane Katrina.”

Tomas Sancio compares the US reaction to Hurricane Katrina with the Venezuelan reaction to the 1999 La Guaira floods. He also points out that the US government has accepted aid offered by the Venezuelan government.

Uganda CAN reports on the reunion with her relatives of a 12 year-old Ugandan girl who went missing 18 months ago during a raid on her displaced persons' camp by the Lord's Resistance Army.

The Passion of the Present compiles reports on the deaths of more than 500 people in West African countries in an outbreak of cholera.

Anarchogeek discusses vice-presidential candidate, Alvaro Garcia Linera's connection with Indymedia Bolivia.

Inside Somaliland reports on the beginning of campaigning for the Sept. 26 parliamentary elections.

You may have read an item in this column about the Spotlight on Darfur blogging campaign. Well, as Congo Watch reports, and as Catez Stevens has informed us directly, the date has been moved to Sept. 5 to avoid a clash with Katrina-related efforts.

Diana Zorrilla Ríos asks why so few Peruvian blogs mentioned the recent plane crash in the Amazonion town of Pucallpa [es] and concludes that practically all Peruvian blogs are concentrated in the capitol of Lima, where they focus on. She also links to the five bloggers who did mention the crash.

Black Looks points out the incongruity of a televised beauty contest in Zimbabwe amid mass government-backed demolitions of shanty towns and other human rights abuses.

Quemar las Naves pleads that they stop playing Phil Collins in the Santiago Metro. Beck and The Strokes are suggested replacements.

Miguel of MABB has translated short bios of each of the presidential candidates from the Bolivian daily, La Razon.

Marcia Koth de Paredes writes that “civil society organizations in Peru are increasingly active in the use of Internet to promote ‘transparency' of democratic processes.”

President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China will make his first visit the United States of America since his ascension to the top leadership post in China. Visiting President Bush, Microsoft and Boeing are listed in his itinerary,

More on Israel-Pakistan relations at A journey to the end of Time. Intentions, motivations and why Israel is a friend Pakistan needs.

30 Aug was International Day of the Disappeared. International Nepal Solidary Network has a post on what Ian Martin, the Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal had to say about the current situation in Nepal.

“Our Flood & Their Flood” on Cloudburst Mumbai . Fresh from the memory of the deluge in Bombay, come reflections on the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

DialogNow links to a story on Dukhtaran-e-Milat in Kashmir. Comprising of women, the group has been issuing social diktats against those who do not toe their moral lines.

pakistani perspective on the diplomatic breakthrough - foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel finally meet!

Football and Politics. Nepal sees interesting turns in leadership in both realms says United We Blog!.

September 1st is the Revolution Day of Libya. Sheren (a Libyan blogger) wonders; how important this date is to the Libyan people. Why? Because this is the day when Col. Muammar Al-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris. Libya's Independence Day is celebrated on the eve of Christmas Day. She asks, which date is of more importance?

Mustapha of The Beirut Spring says: “If the Americans were as politically centered as us Lebanese, they would have quickly skipped the terrible humanitarian disaster caused by Katrina and jumped straight into the politics.”

China has become the world's car audio manufacturing centre, reports Research and Market 2005.

Guanxi (personal contacts) still features prominently in job placement in Shanghai. Applicants in China find the same frustration with job posting services such as Monster and Hotjobs in the US: they just aren’t effective.

Yazan Malakha is giving a $25 USD Amazon gift certificate to whoever comes up with the most humorous comment on a picture of Ronald McDonald.

Smooth Stone is asking people to join the Campaign to Divest from “Palestine”, which goal is to pressure the entity calling itself “Palestine” to respect the human rights of the Israeli people, Smooth Stone says.

Mamduh Shawqi is asking to sign a petition to the United Nations urging it to start investigating Sadat's assassination as it investigates El-Hariri's.

Ritzy says that Egyptians should learn from Saudi Arabia, where 80 percent of the households are emotionally mute.