Global Voices Online

“There are heavy gun-shots going on near us, and my roommate made me laugh amongst the shootings: ‘these are crazy mother-******s, i am happy to be as normal in comparison,'” writes Razan in Beirut.

“…Hezbollah's private telecommunications network that triggered the confrontation is a 'secure network of primitive private land lines [that] helped the guerrillas fight Israel's high-tech army in the 2006 summer war' quotes GPC on one of the direct causes of the current conflict in Lebanon.

Ben gives us a quick run down of who is who and what in Lebanon right now.

Prof Rami Zurayk, who is in Beirut with his family, writes his observations and what he is witnessing on the third day of the conflicts in Lebanon.

Carlos Pereira [pt] has found a very interesting video showing the mass emigration of Portuguese-descended settlers and white Angolans from Luena, with scenes classified by the blogger as “great drama moments for the victims of a disastrous decolonization process”.

Guilherme Felitti [pt] has some good tips for those who wish to take part of the Reporter Blogger [pt] experiment or want to experiment with Citizen Media. “Remember that, be you a journalist or a blogger, you are committed to telling your readers a story as close to as possible to reality”.

Deane's Dimension takes a look at the issue of poverty, and writes that the question is not how poverty can be reduced, but how wealth can be created.

LIRNEasia on a timeline of Cyclone Nargis and the lack of an effective early warning system.

Mash writes on the race between Obama and Clinton, from the perspective of a Brown American.