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

YearTitlePublisherISBNNotes
1992Chronicles of DissentConsortium Book Sales & DistributionISBN 0-96288-388-3Interviews with Noam Chomsky
Stenographers to Power: Media and PropagandaCommon Courage PressISBN 0-96288-385-9
1994December 16, 2009, at the Wayback MachineISBN 1-56751-033-7Interviews with Noam Chomsky
The Pen and the SwordHaymarket Books (2010 reprint)ISBN 1-93185-995-7Interviews with Edward Said
Secrets, Lies and DemocracyOdonian PressISBN 1-87882-504-6Interviews 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 ManyISBN 1-87882-503-8
What Uncle Sam Really WantsISBN 1-87882-501-1
1996Class WarfarePluto PressISBN 1-56751-092-2Interviews with Noam Chomsky
1998The Common GoodOdonian PressISBN 1-87882-508-9Interviews with Noam Chomsky; part of The Chomsky Quartet
1999The Future of HistoryCommon Courage PressISBN 1-56751-157-0Interviews with Howard Zinn
2017Confronting EmpireSouth End PressISBN 0-89608-615-1Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad
2001The Decline and Fall of Public BroadcastingISBN 0-89608-654-2
Propaganda and the Public MindPluto PressISBN 0-74531-788-XInterviews with Noam Chomsky
9-11Seven Stories PressISBN 1-58322-489-0
Terrorism: Theirs and OursISBN 1-58322-490-4Interviews with Eqbal Ahmad
2003The Checkbook and the Cruise MissileSouth End PressISBN 0-89608-710-7Interviews with Arundhati Roy
Culture and ResistancePluto PressISBN 0-74532-017-1Interviews with Edward Said
2004Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive MagazineSouth End PressISBN 0-89608-725-5
2005Imperial Ambitions: Conversations With Noam Chomsky On The Post-9/11 WorldMacmillanISBN 1-42998-081-8
Speaking of the Empire and Resistance: Interviews with Tariq AliThe New PressISBN 1-56584-954-X
2006Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with David BarsamianHarperCollins (2009 reprint)ISBN 0-06175-141-3Interviews with Howard Zinn
2007Targeting IranCity Lights BooksISBN 0-87286-458-8Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing WorldMetropolitan BooksISBN 0-80508-671-4Interviews with Noam Chomsky
2011How the World WorksSoft Skull PressISBN 978-1-59376-427-2Interviews with Noam Chomsky
2012Occupy the Economy: Challenging CapitalismCity Lights BooksISBN 0-87286-568-1Interviews with Richard Wolff
2013Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. EmpireMacmillanISBN 0-80509-616-7Interviews with Noam Chomsky
2017Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to DemocracyMacmillanISBN 9781250146182Interviews with Noam Chomsky
2020ReTargeting IranCity Lights PublishersISBN 9780872868045With Ervand Abrahamian, Noam Chomsky, Nader Hashemi, Azadeh Moaveni, and Trita Parsi
2022Notes on ResistanceHaymarket BooksISBN 9781642596984Interviews with Noam Chomsky

Filmography

YearFilmNotes
1992Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the MediaCredited in the acknowledgments as a source for archival audio, appeared onscreen as an interviewer
2006Independent Intervention
2013Targeting IranInterviewee in documentary based on his book of the same name

See also

External links

  • , with list of programs featuring him, at Alternative Radio's website
  • South Asia Citizens Web, Sep 28, 2011
  • on C-SPAN
  • , Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University