Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
- Bio
- Democracy Without Elections
- The End Of Egypt's Revolution?
- VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
- The Secret Shame of Jon Ungoed-Thomas
- Photo Diary of my trip to Revolutionary Cairo so far
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- Alber Saber - Arrested for Atheism
- Blood Trail in Crime-Scene Tahrir
- Assange and Asylum Seekers Share Corporate Warden?
me on twitter…
- .@imurch you underestimate the moral costs of losing. Terrible things are happening. 1 hour ago
- @yinyangman69 Labor has completely lost the plot. 3 hours ago
- @dajashby the ALP has lost it's way. Constantly ignoring it's base. 3 hours ago
- We need better feminist archetypes (Virginia Wolf, is mine, as a feminist and a writer). Kids are actually imitating the stereotype. 8 hours ago
- RT @wikileaks: Great new Free Jeremy Hammond website; take action! freejeremy.net/about-the-case/ #freehammond 8 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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Tag Archives: Mubarak
The End Of Egypt’s Revolution?
Had the following published over at New Matilda The Egyptian presidential election is imminent and the fallout from the Mubarak trial is far from settled. Nearly a year and a half after the fall of the dictator, two critical political … Continue reading →
Egypt’s three revolutionary fronts
Had a column come out in the latest edition of New Humanist. More than six months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, politics in Egypt is dominated by three main contests, playing out in distinct if not isolated arenas, against … Continue reading →
Out with Mubarak, in with Marx?
Had another piece published over at Comment is Free: In a recent TV discussion, Hossam el-Hamalawy, the prominent Egyptianleftist blogger, was asked: “So you’re the president of Egypt. You wake up, what’s the first thing you’re going to do to reorient … Continue reading →
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Mubarak Has Gone But The Strikes Go On
Had an article Published by the lovely folk at newmatilda.com, about the role of organised labour in Egypt’s ongoing revolution. While the west may be under the impression that the revolution in Egypt is over, on the ground, it looks … Continue reading →
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What Can Obama Do?
The following article went up today on NewMatilda! The hunger for democracy in Egypt is real, writes Austin G. Mackell. So why won’t Obama and other world leaders put pressure on Mubarak to step down? Mubarak has been, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ahmed Noor, Bibi, Biden, Blair, Egypt, Montasser Bayoud, Mubarak, NewMatilda, Obama
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