Global Voices Online

Cory Driver, an American who lives in Morocco, withnessed a hilarious war between the women of a village he was visiting.
“All the grown women.. were throwing grown-women-sized-rocks at each other. The men were mostly just standing around watching; occasionally cheering, occasionally trying to talk some sense into rock-throwers… but mostly just standing around watching. It was the weirdest, funniest, saddest thing i've seen in a long time,” he wrote.

Guillermo Parra of Venepoetics has published a slew of recent translations including Eduardo Vásquez's “Postmodernity Once Again,” which proposes two distinct foundations for Chavez's so-called “21st Century Socialism.” Parra also introduces his readers to award-winning poet and novelist Alberto Barrera Tyszka whose biography of Hugo Chavez will be published in English translation later this year by Random House.

The Russian Dilettante comments on Masha Lipman's recent column.

Adil, a Moroccan blogger who lives in Washington DC, US, says there was far too many policemen at the King Mohammed the Fifth Airport.
“I believe that airport is overstaffed with police. Passengers need more service oriented ppl to guide them through the arrival than a policeman with a moustache who forgot what a smile is,” he wrote.

La Russophobe posts parts of a report from the Polish newspaper Dziennik on the use of Aleksandr Litvinenko's image for target practice by the FSB, and links to a video and photos.

UAE resident SolitudDeGitana questions whether anyone knows what the amount of information you have to/should divulge during airport interrogations.
“(T)he woman over at luggage inspection started asking me a string of other questions, namely about whether I had a boyfriend where I'm living in the MIddle East. I answered her, but in retrospect, I really wish I would have asked her what business of hers that was, seeing as what she really needed to know was whether I had fruit/cheese/meat in my luggage and not about my romantic life. It's not a huge deal, but it just felt very, very odd…,” she wrote.

Translation of part 9 of the interview with Marina Litvinenko is posted at A Step At A Time.

Our Man in Hanoi is soon to become Our Man in Granada and starts off with two introductory posts as he prepares for the move.

NvB: Bored in Brno writes that the “proposed radar stations around the Czech Republic may be a forerunner of the new silent arms race.”