Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
- Bio
- Democracy Without Elections
- The End Of Egypt's Revolution?
- VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
- Photo Diary of my trip to Revolutionary Cairo so far
- The Secret Shame of Jon Ungoed-Thomas
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- Christopher Hitchens: Farewell the Hypocrite
- Blood Trail in Crime-Scene Tahrir
- Assange and Asylum Seekers Share Corporate Warden?
me on twitter…
- RT @kgosztola: Innocent Afghan women/children caught in crosshairs will be happy to know US always looking to prosecute cheapest, most effi… 6 hours ago
- RT @CynicalIslamist: @austingmackell I know someone who angrily asked if they'd have to pay for unsubsidized gas for all three of their car… 7 hours ago
- @imurch I mean they would rather lose and defend inaction than win and dfend action. 7 hours ago
- @imurch I brought the moral cost of losing up directly for the first time in that tweet. 7 hours ago
- @dajashby everyone left of center... the people who still hold their nose and vote for them. 7 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
Archives
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Brotherhood Takes Egypt’s Presidency
My piece on the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in Egypt’s first post revolution presidential election, published on over at New Matilda. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamad Morsy may not be the ideal revolutionary president, but he’s not military or a Mubarak crony, … Continue reading
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Tagged Morsi, Morsy, Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood, SCAF, Tahrir
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Another Letter for Assange
The following was read on my behalf at a rally in Sydney calling on the Government of Ecuador to grant political Asylum to Julian Assange, Editor in Cheif of Wikileaks. I would like to start once more by saying how … Continue reading
Interviews on Egypt’s Elections
Have done a couple of in depth interviews since the first round of presidential voting. One is with the always fantastic Citizen Radio pod-cast, check it out here (I’m not mentioned in the episode run down but just hit play and … Continue reading
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Tagged Egypt, Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood, Presidential elections, shafiq
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Letter in support of Assange
Below is the text of a letter which was read on my behalf at #Rally4JA events held in Australia. I know that at the Sydney rally it was read by a friend and hero of mine Antony Loewenstein. The text is also … Continue reading
