War and Peace 2005 cast - David Barsamian

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David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning 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.

His latest books are Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky and Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali. His earlier books include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and 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 on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the US, Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism and of a Democracy Media Award.