Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
- You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
- Democracy Without Elections
- VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
- Christopher Hitchens: Farewell the Hypocrite
- Bio
- Female Misogynist goes Internet dating
- Happy New Year From Tahrir
- Heroin for Dole-Bludgers
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- Egypt's Workers in Revolution: An Interview with Labor Journalist Jano Charbel
me on twitter…
- @jujueyeball do you put an s to pluralise that? 4 hours ago
- @benpobjie @GregJessop1 like that proves anything. 4 hours ago
- Latino/as, as an Anglo-saxon I'm compelled to point out: moving ones arse first left, then back rightward, is a highly inefficient maneuver. 4 hours ago
- @Glebe2037 the old airport is now a huge park. only a month or two after flights stopped. 4 hours ago
- @Glebe2037 i thought i had it set to public... but perhaps logged in yeah- 10 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: Revolution
Egyptian Revolution, set to Revolution by the John Butler Trio, plus pics from Tahrir
Watch on youtube for HD. (See notes on video below) notes on video: This footage is taken mostly from 22 Nov (some from 19 Nov) in Tahrir Square, Bab Aluk, Mohamad Mahmoud St and connecting alley ways. It shows Egyptian … Continue reading
Cairo Rises Against Military Rule
Had the following published on New Matilda on tuesday. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces was hailed as the saviour of the Egyptian revolution but the people are now calling for an immediate transition to civilian rule. Austin Mackell … Continue reading
The revolutionary journey of militant Egyptian union organiser Kamal Mohammad El-Fayoumi – In his own words.
The following is a full transcript of an interview Montasser Bayoud and I had earlier this year with militant Egyptian labour organiser, Kamal El-Fayoumi of the Misr Spinning and weaving company. The activism of these workers, combined with the fact … 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
Reading the Shock Doctrine in Cairo
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein, is the ducks fucking nuts. The most fitting endorsement I have heard of it comes from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow; “The only book of the last few years in American publishing that I would describe as … Continue reading
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Tagged #jan25, Cairo, capitalism, Egypt, Empire, Naomi Klein, Neo Liberalism, Resistance, Revolution, Socialism, The Shock Doctrine
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Egypt’s revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
The ongoing revolution in Egypt has taken a dramatic turn, with protesters successfully resisting an assault by the army on Tahrir Square. Yesterday (Friday the 8th of April) one of the largest protests in Egypy since the ouster of Mubarak … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 April, 9 April 2011, Burning Vehicles, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Army, Jan 25, Revolution, Tahrir, Tahrir Square, Tantawi
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Another Citizen Radio interview from Egypt.
Had another chat with the fantastic Allison Kilkeny (follow on twitter @allisonkilkenny) which is now up on Citizen Radio. Check it out.
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Tagged #jan25, Bahrain, Cairo, Egypt, Iran, protest, Revolution, Saudi
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