Austin G. Mackell
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me on twitter…
- @tm_cat @JimJimsonJr yeah well when you figure out what the fuck it is about apart from how clever the author and readers are let me know. 25 minutes ago
- so vimeo is basically just Youtube for hipsters right? (plus ftp?) i don't understand the technical differences.... 2 hours ago
- In a smaller pond, people are much bitchier I guess. 2 hours ago
- previous tweet: given that half my work and more than half my income comes from non australian sources, this is telling. 2 hours ago
- Just occurred to me that of all the arguments I've had with editors/gatekeepers only one minor occasion were they not Australian. 2 hours ago
Blogroll
- Acitv8Change The fantastic and fiery Kate Ausburn’s blog
- Antony Loewenstein One of Australia’s best and most critical intellectuals
- Disgruntled Biped “23 year old curmudgeon. Serial pessimist. Born in Jesusland, raised in Redneck Wonderland… suffice to say that both these experiences damaged me profoundly. Much happier now in the Inner West.”
- Inner West Live A community of blogger/journo/food-reviews/catlovers from around the Inner West (The Cool Part) of Sydney
- Lorenzo Tugnoli An amazing Italian photojournalist.
- Patch Galey A very sharp young British journalist based in Beirut and working at the Daily Star (also once my flat-mate)
- Penultimo A blog about my neighbourhood run by Jesse Stein and Erin Riley… Coz I still got love for the streets.
- Richard Hall Another fine young Daily Star Journo, writing from Beirut about the Middle East and beyond.
- Sam Tarling English Photojournalist bouncing round the Middle East. In Cairo (in the thick of it) last I checked.
- The Review of The New York Review of Books A side project of mine, featuring meta-reviews (reviews of reviews), video digests, and comment pages for the NYRB
- The Tongue Are you ready for a taste of the realness?
- The Tracy and The John “the men danced the dance of the gays”
- Two Bullets an anonymous insider from the Sydney music scene
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
The IMF versus the Arab spring
Had a piece about the IMF and the Arab Spring published online over at Comment is Free: In the midst of the media storm surrounding IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn last week, my feelings were perfectly expressed in a tweet by Paul Kingsnorth: “Could … Continue reading
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Tagged #jan25, Egypt, IMF, Imperialism, Libya, Mahalla el Kubra, Neo Liberalism, Tunisia, Unions
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Revolutionary Re-Education In Egypt
Perihan Abouzeid, the 26 year old owner of an online supermarket, is one of the young, female, twittteriffic activists that the media has so far put, not without justification, at the centre of the story of Egypt’s uprising. When I … Continue reading
Three Egyptian Revolutionaries: The Businessman, The Worker and The Islamist
The Busniessman, Sherif Makhlouf The Worker, Kamal Elfayoumi The Islamist, Ahmed Akeel These videos were produced by Montasser Bayoud and Myself and were first published (in Norwegian) as part of an interactive @ aftenposten.no All the videos are available on youtube in higher … Continue reading
