David Barsamian

One of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio—37 years and running— and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest books are Edward Said: Culture and Resistance, Retargeting Iran, Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent Interviews with David Barsamian 1984-1996. And the latest book with Chomsky is Notes on Resistance: Interviews by David Barsamian 2019-2021. David lectures on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media and global rebellions.

In 2017 Radical Desi in Vancouver presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. He has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet in events in New York, London, Vienna, Boulder and San Francisco. David Barsamian is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

Programs

Date Recorded Program Title Handle
2022: 07/07 A Passage Through India BARD014
2020: 01/19 Iran & U.S.: Deadly Embrace BARD013
1983: 03/23 Kalila wa Dimna: Fables from the Arab World CULT069
2018: 10/08 It Takes An Acorn BARD012A
2018: 09/10 17th Annual State of the World Address BARD011
2002: 04/04 Working Class Movies WEXH001
2018: 05/09 How To Detect Biases in the Media BARD010
1991: 03/13 Literature From the World of Islam CULT041
2017: 09/11 15th Annual State of the World Address BARD009
2017: 03/20 Resistance in the Age of Trump BARD008
2016: 09/12 14th Annual State of the World Address BARD007
2014: 10/08 Barsamian/Kronos Quartet in Concert BARD005
2013: 06/14 Israel, the U.S. & Mideast Policy BARD004
2012: 07/06 Gunning for Iran BARD003
2013: 03/03 I Have a Drone BARD002
2012: 09/12 Live From City Lights WOLR006
1982: 02/18 Horizontes CULT005
1984: 05/13 The Basques, Portrait of a People and Culture CULT002
1995: 05/24 The Right-Wing Attack on Public Broadcasting BARD001
1994: 04/15 Media Treatment of Arabs and Islam BARD-KNOE-LANS001
1998: 06/18 Live on Hightower’s Chat ‘n Chew BARD-HIGJ001

Books