Shahryar Rizvi’s blog

  • Frontline w/ Ali Soufan: The Interrogator

    http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf via FRONTLINE – The Interrogator

  • links for 2011-09-24

    Students, SEIU Protest Hershey Chocolate Again – WHTM abc27 "The Hershey Chocolate Company had decided to staff its chocolate plant with 400 foreign students from as far away as China and Turkey. These students had come in expecting a cultural exchange, instead they were being treated like captive workers," says Saket Soni, Director of the […]

  • The Problem With… Kelly Clarkson’s “Mr. Know It All” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    The Problem With… Kelly Clarkson’s “Mr. Know It All” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.

  • Video: Water Bottle Lights and Other Eco-Friendly Inventions · Global Voices

    Solar lights and hot water heaters from plastic water bottles, houses made from trash and a way to do without plastic bags are some of the projects making reducing, reusing and recycling not only fun and affordable but also vital to improving the quality of life of people all around the world. via Video: Water […]

  • Program or Be Programmed – Douglas Rushkoff

    http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/etsy?layout=4&clip=pla_bc66e3ea-e799-42ec-8187-75fe14ab42a6&color=0x8cb6e5&autoPlay=false&mute=false&iconColorOver=0x5484ba&iconColor=0x386496&allowchat=true&height=340&width=560 Watch live streaming video from etsy at livestream.com Hello Etsy Berlin – Douglas Rushkoffon Etsy – live streaming video powered by Livestream.

  • In Defense of… Gavin DeGraw “Not Over You” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    In Defense of… Gavin DeGraw “Not Over You” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.

  • Bringing Saxy Back: Saxophone music post for the Observer

    Bringing Saxy Back: 10 Pieces of Audio Evidence Confirming 2011’s Full-On Saxophone Revival – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. This is the first list-based post I have written for the Observer. I’m thinking up a few more ideas. That’s all the sax I can handle for now. Good night ladies… Sergio! http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1198000 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJlJ0ArSkA&w=560&h=315]

  • links for 2011-09-17

    the asian exclusion act: when u.s. immigration "worked very, very well," according to michele bachmann | angry asian man Where America went wrong, according to the Congresswoman from Minnesota, was in the mid-1960s when the evil liberal members of Congress lifted those good ol' laws of yesteryear — sigh — tearing open the gates to […]

  • links for 2011-09-16

    FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ | Danger Room | Wired.com Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable […]

  • links for 2011-09-14

    Das Racist: Relax | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club Das Racist is, after all, of the millennial generation; brown kids weaned on Yo! MTV Raps and the Cosbys, on the first Nintendo and the X-Men cartoon, on the emergence of new media and that thing called Twitter. A sarcastic embrace of social ills […]

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