David Barsamian awarded 2006 Cultural Freedom Fellowship
David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, an independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He has been working in radio since 1978. In addition to his radio work he is an author and lecturer. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest books are Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with Howard Zinn; Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky, and Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali. His earlier books include The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile with Arundhati Roy; Propaganda and the Public Mind with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire, and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its “Top Ten Media Heroes.” Barsamian lectures in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the Middle East, India and Europe on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power. In 2003 he received ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Democracy Media Award, and the 2006 Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center Award.
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