David Barsamian

David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio program, an independent and widely syndicated weekly series, which is based in Boulder, Colorado. He has been working in radio since 1978, and is a 2003 recipient of the ACLU/SC South Bay chapter’s Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Awards. He has written The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting (2001), and has authored several books of interviews with Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali, and especially Noam Chomsky. His most recent books are Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali (2005) and The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2004). David Barsamian’s books of interviews with Noam Chomsky including Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (2005), Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001) and The Common Good (1998). His books of previously published interviews and radio broadcasts are Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine (2004); Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said (2003); Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire (2000); The Future of History (1999); The Pen and the Sword (1994); and Stenographers to Power: media & propaganda (1992). His interviews appear regularly in The Progressive, Z Magazine and International Socialist Review.