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.
Barsamian started working in radio in 1978 at KGNU in Boulder, Colorado, and then KRZA in Alamosa, Colorado.
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 On 23 September 2011, Barsamian was deported from India. After arriving on a flight at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, he was refused entry and placed on a return flight. Barsamian attributes this to his reportage on human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir.
Bibliography Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes1992 Chronicles of Dissent Consortium Book Sales & Distribution Interviews with Noam Chomsky Stenographers to Power: Media and Propaganda Common Courage Press 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 Odonian Press 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 Pluto Press Interviews with Noam Chomsky 1998 The Common Good Odonian Press Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Quartet 1999 The Future of History Common Courage Press Interviews with Howard Zinn 2017 Confronting Empire South End Press Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad2001 The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting Propaganda and the Public Mind Pluto Press Interviews with Noam Chomsky 9-11 Seven Stories Press Terrorism: Theirs and Ours Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad2003 The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile South End Press Interviews with Arundhati Roy Culture and Resistance Pluto Press Interviews with Edward Said 2004 Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine South End Press 2005 Imperial Ambitions: Conversations With Noam Chomsky On The Post-9/11 World Macmillan Speaking of the Empire and Resistance: Interviews with Tariq Ali The New Press 2006 Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with David Barsamian HarperCollins (2009 reprint) Interviews with Howard Zinn2007 Targeting Iran City Lights Books Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World Metropolitan Books Interviews with Noam Chomsky2011How the World WorksSoft Skull PressInterviews 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 Chomsky2017Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to DemocracyMacmillanISBN 9781250146182Interviews 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
Filmography Year Film Notes 1992 Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Credited in the acknowledgments as a source for archival audio, appeared onscreen as an interviewer 2006 Independent Intervention 2013 Targeting Iran Interviewee in documentary based on his book of the same name
See also List of Armenian Americans
References
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
David Barsamian Collection of Alternative Radio Audio Recordings, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University