Global Voices Online

Ramblings goes to India, and has a wonderful and unique post on the Pakistani perspective.

Five Rupees ponders on who can be classified as middle class in Pakistan.

Raw Politics…Jamaica Style! writes a detailed post about the Track and Field component of the upcoming Olympic Games.

Both Child of the Revolution and Ninety miles away…in another country take issue with a series of articles in the Christian Science Monitor speculating about Cuba's economic future: “It is particularly galling that the resourcefulness they all laud as the sign of a changing Cuba is a harsh expedient forced on a captive population - desperate to eke out a living any way they can - by the system under which they live.”

In examining the state of Jamaican politics, My View of JamDown from Up So notices some similarities to Haiti.

HaitiAnalysis.com reports that The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has denounced “the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of the Haitian government for the past four years.”

As the Prime Minister announces new measures to deal with crime, Jamaica and the World wonders “if they will make any difference at all…”

DANWEI reprinted an article from Music 2.0 blog on Baidu's strategy in conquering the music industry.

Tokyo Reporter reports on the left wing groups' plan for a peace demonstration in August near Yasukuni Shrine.