David Barsamian
| David Barsamian | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 1945 |
| Occupation | Founder and Director of Alternative Radio |
| Website |
alternativeradio |
David Barsamian (born 1945) is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer, and the founder and director of Alternative Radio, a Boulder, Colorado-based syndicated weekly talk program heard on some 150 radio stations in various countries.[2]
Barsamian started working in radio in 1978 at KGNU in Boulder, Colorado and then KRZA in Alamosa, Colorado.[3]
Articles by (and interviews with) Barsamian have appeared regularly in The Progressive, The Nation, and Z Magazine. Barsamian also lectures on U.S. foreign policy, corporate control, the media, and propaganda. He is a member of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy.[4]
As a writer, Barsamian is best known for his series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, which have been published in book form and translated into many languages, selling hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.
Activism
On 23 September 2011, Barsamian was deported from India.[5] After arriving on a flight at the Indira Gandhi International Airport he was refused entry and placed on a return flight.[6] Barsamian attributes this to his reportage on human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir.[7]
Bibliography
| Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Chronicles of Dissent | Consortium Book Sales & Distribution | ISBN 0-96288-388-3 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
| Stenographers to Power: Media and Propaganda | Common Courage Press | ISBN 0-96288-385-9 | ||
| 1994 | Keeping the Rabble in Line | ISBN 1-56751-033-7 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |
| The Pen and the Sword | Haymarket Books (2010 reprint) | ISBN 1-93185-995-7 | Interviews with Edward Said | |
| Secrets, Lies and Democracy | Odonian Press | ISBN 1-87882-504-6 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Trilogy (ISBN 1-87882-507-0); part of The Chomsky Quartet (ISBN 1-87882-516-X) | |
| The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many | ISBN 1-87882-503-8 | |||
| What Uncle Sam Really Wants | ISBN 1-87882-501-1 | |||
| 1996 | Class Warfare | Pluto Press | ISBN 1-56751-092-2 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
| 1998 | The Common Good | Odonian Press | ISBN 1-87882-508-9 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Quartet |
| 1999 | The Future of History | Common Courage Press | ISBN 1-56751-157-0 | Interviews with Howard Zinn |
| 2000 | Confronting Empire | South End Press | ISBN 0-89608-615-1 | Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad |
| 2001 | The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting | ISBN 0-89608-654-2 | ||
| Propaganda and the Public Mind | Pluto Press | ISBN 0-74531-788-X | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |
| 9-11 | Seven Stories Press | ISBN 1-58322-489-0 | ||
| Terrorism: Theirs and Ours | ISBN 1-58322-490-4 | Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad | ||
| 2003 | The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile | South End Press | ISBN 0-89608-710-7 | Interviews with Arundhati Roy |
| Culture and Resistance | Pluto Press | ISBN 0-74532-017-1 | Interviews with Edward Said | |
| 2004 | Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine | South End Press | ISBN 0-89608-725-5 | |
| 2005 | Imperial Ambitions: Conversations With Noam Chomsky On The Post-9/11 World | Macmillan | ISBN 1-42998-081-8 | |
| Speaking of the Empire and Resistance: Interviews with Tariq Ali | New Press | ISBN 1-56584-954-X | ||
| 2006 | Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with David Barsamian | HarperCollins (2009 reprint) | ISBN 0-06175-141-3 | Interviews with Howard Zinn |
| 2007 | Targeting Iran | City Lights Books | ISBN 0-87286-458-8 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari |
| What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World | Metropolitan Books | ISBN 0-80508-671-4 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |
| 2012 | Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism | City Lights Books | ISBN 0-87286-568-1 | Interviews with Richard Wolff |
| 2013 | Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire | Macmillan | ISBN 0-80509-616-7 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
Filmography
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Credited in the acknowledgments as a source for archival audio,[8] appeared onscreen as an interviewer[7] |
| 2006 | Independent Intervention | |
| 2013 | Targeting Iran | Interviewee in documentary based on his book of the same name[9] |
See also
References
- ↑ Reference from Aztag Daily, the daily newspaper of the Lebanese Armenian community.
- ↑ "David Barsamian hits Calgary". FFWD – Calgary Blogs – The Howler. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
- ↑ "David Barsamian - Americans Who Tell The Truth". Americans Who Tell The Truth. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ↑ "David Barsamian - Progressive Voices". Progressive Voices. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ↑ Prasad, Ayyappa (25 September 2011). "US broadcaster deported from India". TruthDive. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ↑ Joshi, Rajesh (26 September 2011). "'In Free India I Was Denied Entry'". Outlookindia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- 1 2 Roy, Arundhati (29 September 2011). "The dead begin to speak up in India". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ↑ "David Barsamian". IMDb. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ↑ "Targeting Iran (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
External links
- About David Barsamian, with list of programs featuring him, at Alternative Radio's website
- Alternative Radio (Australia) website
- Statement of protest South Asia Citizens Web, Sep 28, 2011