David Barsamian: Alternative Radio - named "Top 10 Media Hero"

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Radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer.

http://www.alternativeradio.org/barsamian.shtml

Heard him yesterday on NPR talking about U.S. recent ratcheting up of rhetoric against Iran and how despite all the threats, he believes not attack against Iran by Israel or U.S. is imminent.

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Apparently he was speaking tonight at UCLA
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Lecture by David Barsamian Regarding Iran and the United States On a Collision Course Email This EventPrint Event
Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:00 PM
UCLA: Bunche Hall, Room 2209 Los Angeles CA-South USA
Category: Lecture
Admission: Free
Contact: UCLA/City Lights Booksellers Phone:

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David Barsamian, author of the book "Targeting Iran" (published by Skylight Books) will give a lecture and sign books at UCLA regarding his recent trip to the Middle East.


Barsamian is the founding director of Alternative Radio, produced in Boulder, Colorado (www.alternativeradio.org).

Barsamian is the author/editor of 14 books. In his new book, "Targeting Iran", he presents the perspectives of three experts, Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari on Iran and U.S. foreign policy. They discuss Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces, relations with Iraq and Afghanistan and the consequences of U.S. policy.

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Barsamian strikes again re: Pakistan and the implications a U.S. attempt to destabilize in Iran would have on Pakistan.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=84430

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=84235

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=84060

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=83352

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speaking in Glendale this month on Iran.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:00 PM
Glendale Public Library: 222 E Harvard St Glendale CA-South 91205 USA
Category: Lecture
Admission: FREE
Contact: Friends of the Glendale Public Library Phone: (818) 548-2042

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David Barsamian examines the U.S.-Iran standoff through interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari. He presents their perspectives on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime, Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces, relations with Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consequences of US policy. One of the Targeting Iran's central conclusions is that the U.S. and Iran are teetering precipitously on the edge of another war that neither side can afford to participate in. In Barsamian's (and his interviewees') view, the best hope for a bloodless conclusion to the current standoff is for the US to approach Iran without demanding it submit to American demands before they even reach the bargaining table. Targeting Iran is heavy with historical and cultural background and is a great primer on a simmering conflict.


Barsamian's other new book, What We Say Goes, is a collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, with Noam Chomsky, that explores Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the democratic victory in the U.S. midterm elections and its ramifications for the future.


These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as long-time Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront-both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.


David Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine.

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Current speaking schedule: 5/14/08 through 6/29/08 (OR, NY, CA). http://www.alternativeradio.org/davi...schedule.shtml

Lecture/panelist at Armenian and Progressive Politics seminar in New York - 5/30-5/31/2008. http://www.armenianprogressive.com/schedule.htm

Panelist for Armenians and Progressive Politics first West Coast Conference in Glendale, CA on June 6 and 7, 2008 re: Social Justice. http://www.ArmenianCalendar.com/?showevent=2053

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Panelist for Armenians and Progressive Politics first West Coast Conference in Glendale, CA on June 6 and 7, 2008 re: Social Justice. http://www.ArmenianCalendar.com/?showevent=2053

Vahe Berberian is going to be one of the panelists? I'm attending for sure.