Welcome to this week’s carnival of revolutions hosted by yours truly; the one, the only, the sexy. The purpose of this carnival is to highlight democracy movements, tyrannous acts, human rights, and election fiascos over the past week. And to promote myself, of course. Hey, look over there!

General:

Will Franklin looks at foreign aid from the U.S.

Blogrel from Armenia asks the U.S. to define freedom and offers suggestions on how to use leverage on other governments.

Thomas Lifson asks if there’s a such thing as a good communist? I think we all know his answer!

Blogs — do they effect elections in a way that they deserve regulation? Of course they do, but in the way I may talk to various groups of people multiple times a day in person. Definitely shouldn’t be regulated.

Here’s a new carnival: of liberty!

Africa:

Soapgun blog argues that Africa’s first revolution must be capitalist.

Botswana: A model for Africa.

Ethiopia: Elections results were delayed again as the diaspora rallied around the world. Here’s information and pictures from the rally in Atlanta.

Sudan: An interim peace agreement has been sealed by allowing former rebel leader John Garang to be the vice president. More at Gateway Pundit.

Zimbabwe: Sokwanele says the best way to make poverty history is to make dictators history. One man would rather go on hunger strike than return to his home country and surely starve. Zimpundit notes that all land purchases in Harare since 1997 have become void and are being resold at higher prices. Ex-MDC parliamentarian Roy Bennet says that the party is hijacked by opportunists,” a dead party walking. Sad, but true.

If you’re feeling particularly naughty today, send a fax to Mugabe: 263.4.703858

Asia:

This belongs out of a particular country because it really involves them all. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization met to lay out a vision for the future of Central Asia — one that involves Russia and China, but no United States. Here’s my take, and here is Nathan’s take. And more.

Armenia: Blogrel talks about election redistricting.

Azerbaijan: 10,000 rally for democracy in one of the first few sanctioned protests.

China: NGO means serve the government.

India: Blog Mela, a roundup of the Indian blogosphere.

Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan held its first presidential election since the Tulip Revolution on Sunday. Nathan has a roundup and here are my own reflections. Jim Hoft also rounds up the aftermath. Here are election photos. Alan Kordova visited some polling stations and had a generally favorable outlook.

Nepal: After the king’s birthday procession, 500 pro-democracy activists protested.

North Korea: Joshua discusses American Enterprise’s latest issue and the NK problem. More on this here. And here’s an interview with the NK ambassador to Mongolia. The horror that is North Korea.

Philippines: Gloria Arroyo is facing a cabinet coup.

Taiwan: Condi wants China to start talking to Taiwan and Tibet. Good luck on that. Jujuflop notes that the political freak show continues.

Uzbekistan: The American Enterprise Institute seems to be looking at U.S. policy post-Andijon. Speaking of which, some reporters are really toeing the government line, though some reported directly from the scene.

Latin America:

Will Franklin looks at opposition to CAFTA from Democrats.

Argentina: Domingo Cavallo, the man who tore the country down to nothing, is running for president again.

Belize: Castro and Chavez are slithering up in the Carribean, and Belize is a prime target for cheap oil and Cuba’s infamous exported doctors.

Bolivia: Miguel takes a look at the current situation as things try to go back to normal. He also looks at gas and China as the giant moves into Latina America.

Brazil: The corruption scandal involving President Lula continues to brew and Chavez may have funneled $10 million to his campaign.

Cuba: Protests get broken up.

Venezuela: How the group Sumate has helped build real civil institutions

Middle East:

Afghanistan: Good news by Chrenkoff.

Egypt: Big Pharaoh has an awesome photo-blog detailing the emancipation of women.

Iran: Week in review. Windsteed posts on the July 9 uprising in 1999.

Iraq: Marsh Arab are getting their wetlands back.

Kurdistan: War declared in south Turkey, and Syria is facing more pressure from Kurds as well.

Lebanon: Beirut Spring has a hilarious post where he rounds up how everyone is blaming everyone for the difficulties facing the new government, “President Lahoud just sucks.”

Palestinian Territories: Hamas rejects unity goverment offer.

Syria: Ammar has no idea what’s going on in his country, as the govermet supposedly battles militants.

Europe:

Britain: There’s a lot of info out there, so I’ll leave it at that. But here is an idea I thought was really cool. Donate money to buy a beer for the emergency response workers.

Chechnya: Chechens rally in Grozny for retrail in Ulman case. Chechen government response to the London bombings.

Denmark: A pro-U.S. rally on Bush’s visit that was not reported by the AP.

Russia: Russia accuses western poll monitors of spreading revolution. A former prime minister and possible presidential candidate is now under criminal investigation. Here is the Russian reaction the to London bombings. Is the Kremlin prepared to use force to keep power? Here is a three part series posted by David McDuff called “The Fathers of Beslan and the Silver Mercedes Jeep.”

Ukraine: Parliament gets down and dirty over needed reforms to access the WTO. Blog de Connard notes more “bureaucratic bullshit.”

On that note, DONE!!!

However, I must remind all readers that what makes this carnival work is mostly by user-submitted posts. So feel free to submit as much as possible! But again, thank you for stopping by, and I hope you found this carnival useful where the mainstream media has not been. Below you will find additional information on hosting schedules and how you can submit your posts.

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July 25: soapgun blog
August 1: SophistPundit
August 8: Blogrel
August 15: Am I A Pundit Now?
August 22: Coming Anarchy
August 29: One Free Korea

September 5: Thinking-East
September 12: Quid Nimis
September 19: OPEN
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