David Barsamian
David Barsamian | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) |
| Occupations | 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 public affairs program heard on some 250 radio stations worldwide.[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 Sun and Z Magazine. Barsamian also lectures on U.S. foreign policy, corporate control, the media, and propaganda.
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.
Deportation from India
[edit]On 23 September 2011, Barsamian was deported from India.[4] After arriving on a flight at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, he was refused entry and placed on a return flight.[5] Barsamian attributes this to his reportage on human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir.[6]
Bibliography
[edit]| 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 Archived December 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine | 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 |
| 2017 | 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 | The 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 | |
| 2011 | How the World Works | Soft Skull Press | ISBN 978-1-59376-427-2 | 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 |
| 2017 | Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy | Macmillan | ISBN 9781250146182 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
| 2020 | ReTargeting Iran | City Lights Publishers | ISBN 9780872868045 | With Ervand Abrahamian, Noam Chomsky, Nader Hashemi, Azadeh Moaveni, and Trita Parsi |
| 2022 | Notes on Resistance | Haymarket Books | ISBN 9781642596984 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Credited in the acknowledgments as a source for archival audio,[7] appeared onscreen as an interviewer[6] |
| 2006 | Independent Intervention | |
| 2013 | Targeting Iran | Interviewee in documentary based on his book of the same name[8] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Reference from Aztag Daily, the daily newspaper of the Lebanese Armenian community.
- ^ "David Barsamian hits Calgary". FFWD – Calgary Blogs – The Howler. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
- ^ "David Barsamian". Americans Who Tell The Truth. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ^ Prasad, Ayyappa (September 25, 2011). "US broadcaster deported from India". TruthDive. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ Joshi, Rajesh (September 26, 2011). "'In Free India I Was Denied Entry'". Outlookindia.com. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ a b Roy, Arundhati (September 29, 2011). "The dead begin to speak up in India". The Guardian. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ "David Barsamian". IMDb. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ "Targeting Iran (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
External links
[edit]- 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
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- David Barsamian Collection of Alternative Radio Audio Recordings, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University
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