About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
Domestic Affairs Archive
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WashPost: “Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official”
Posted on January 13, 2009 | No CommentsThe Washington Post, January 14 2009, by Bob Woodward: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11,... -
Interesting Articles about Obama
Posted on July 15, 2008 | No CommentsThe New Yorker: Chicago is not Obama’s home town, but it’s where he chose to forge his identity. Several weeks ago, he moved many of the Democratic National Committee’s operations from Washington to Chicago, making the city the unofficial capital of the Democratic Party; his... -
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
Posted on March 18, 2008 | No CommentsObama: But I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no... -
“inhaling democracy”
Posted on March 12, 2008 | No CommentsIM conversation with an Iraqi friend now living in New York: Friend: are u following spitzer’s resignation now Friend: ? Friend: crazy Cyrus Farivar: yeah Friend: cool Friend: his wife is so pissed Friend: man that’s so cool Friend: they just resign like that Friend:... -
NYT’s Voices from the Polls
Posted on February 5, 2008 | 2 CommentsI’m interviewing voters as they come out of the voting booths in Oakland, Piedmont and Lafayette today for the NYT’s online feature “Voices from the Polls”. Check it out here. Update: I had to go all the way out to Danville to find Republicans. Seriously. -
Daniel Hernandez on NPR: “Age, Not Race, Splits Latinos’ Democratic Vote”
Posted on February 1, 2008 | No CommentsBig ups once again to Daniel Hernandez for his commentary on last night’s All Things Considered : “Age, Not Race, Splits Latinos’ Democratic Vote”. As he blogs: Friends, my latest commentary for NPR’s “All Things Considered” ran today. It addresses the question of whether “Latino”... -
Does the News Matter To Anyone Anymore?
Posted on January 21, 2008 | No CommentsDavid Simon asks, in The Washington Post: What I don’t understand is this: Isn’t the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium — isn’t an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity? Or were we kidding... -
Falafel story a fake?
Posted on November 27, 2007 | 1 CommentThe FBI denies all knowledge of the falafel story: Having never heard of this, I spoke to the counterterrorism managers, who in the story were identified as having hatched the plan, as well as everyone else who would have had any knowledge of it. Nobody... -
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda’s Secrets
Posted on October 9, 2007 | No CommentsWashPost: The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings... -
Three LA kids become Marines
Posted on September 5, 2007 | No CommentsThere’s a lot of famous scenes where soldiers go through boot camp, and get yelled at and drilled until it’s instilled. But how real is that, and what does it take to go from civvie to a Semper-Fi-spewin’ Marine? The LA Times follows three kids,...
