Andrew Bacevich has said, "War, we must always remind ourselves, is the continuation of politics by other means. Understanding any war requires first understanding that war's political basis. What brings the parties into conflict? What are they fighting for?" Bacevich's books include
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism and
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War which received the inaugural Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book in 2005.
His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including
The Wilson Quarterly,
The National Interest,
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Policy,
The Nation,
The American Conservative, and
The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the
New York Times,
Washington Post,
Wall Street Journal,
Financial Times,
Boston Globe,
Los Angeles Times, and
USA Today, among other newspapers. He is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins University. Bacevich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Andrew Bacevich Bio and Cross Links
David Barsamian is the award-winning founder and director of
Alternative Radio, an independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He has been working in radio since 1978 where he has interviewed the likes of Angela Davis, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, and Carlos Fuentes. The one-hour program is broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. His publications include
Targeting Iran,
What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky,
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 throughout on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power. In 2003 he received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Democracy Media Award, and the 2006 Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center Award.
David Barsamian Bio and Cross Links
