| David Barsamian | |
| Occupation: | Founder and Director of Alternative Radio |
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.[1]
Barsamian started working in radio in 1978 at KGNU in Boulder, Colorado, and then KRZA in Alamosa, Colorado.[2]
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.
On 23 September 2011, Barsamian was deported from India.[3] After arriving on a flight at the Indira Gandhi International Airport he was refused entry and placed on a return flight.[4] Barsamian attributes this to his reportage on human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir.
| Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Chronicles of Dissent | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |||
| Stenographers to Power: Media and Propaganda | |||||
| 1994 | Keeping the Rabble in Line | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |||
| The Pen and the Sword | Haymarket Books (2010 reprint) | Interviews with Edward Said | |||
| Secrets, Lies and Democracy | Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Trilogy ; part of The Chomsky Quartet | ||||
| The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many | |||||
| What Uncle Sam Really Wants | |||||
| 1996 | Class Warfare | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |||
| 1998 | The Common Good | Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Quartet | |||
| 1999 | The Future of History | Interviews with Howard Zinn | |||
| 2017 | Confronting Empire | Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad | |||
| 2001 | The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting | ||||
| Propaganda and the Public Mind | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | ||||
| 9-11 | |||||
| Terrorism: Theirs and Ours | Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad | ||||
| 2003 | The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile | Interviews with Arundhati Roy | |||
| Culture and Resistance | Interviews with Edward Said | ||||
| 2004 | Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine | ||||
| 2005 | Imperial Ambitions: Conversations With Noam Chomsky On The Post-9/11 World | ||||
| Speaking of the Empire and Resistance: Interviews with Tariq Ali | |||||
| 2006 | Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with David Barsamian | HarperCollins (2009 reprint) | Interviews with Howard Zinn | ||
| 2007 | Targeting Iran | Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari | |||
| What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | ||||
| 2011 | How the World Works | Soft Skull Press | ISBN 9781593764272 | Interviews with Noam Chomsky | |
| 2012 | Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism | City Lights Books | Interviews with Richard Wolff | ||
| 2013 | Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire | Macmillan | 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 | With Ervand Abrahamian, Noam Chomsky, Nader Hashemi, Azadeh Moaveni, and Trita Parsi | ||
| 2022 | Notes on Resistance | Haymarket Books | Interviews with Noam Chomsky |
| Year | Film | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Credited in the acknowledgments as a source for archival audio,[5] appeared onscreen as an interviewer[6] | ||
| 2006 | Independent Intervention | ||
| 2013 | Targeting Iran | Interviewee in documentary based on his book of the same name[7] |