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Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media)

5 reviews
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky, ...

City Lights Publishers, 2007

Interviews on the Past, Present & Future of the U.S.-Iran Relationship
The war drums in Washington beat ever louder, to the accompaniment of saber-rattling rhetoric toward Iran. Although daily talk of the Islamic Republic fills our newspapers and TV screens, many vital questions remain unaddressed in the mainstream media. Is the tough talk merely an instrument of diplomatic pressure, or is the Bush administration planning a military intervention? What is the ...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

7 reviews
Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian

South End Press, 2004

globalizing dissent
Originally titled "The Globalization of Dissent", "The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile" is a series of four interviews with author Arundhati Roy. The interviews, guided conversations, really, are conducted by radio producer David Barsaman. Roy is perhaps best known as the author of the Booker Prize winning novel "The God of Small Things", but she has also written three collections of essays ...

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

1 review
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2008

As well-informed as ever
Chomsky consistently finds documents and articles that the rest of us have missed. Like all his books, this is full of fascinating revelations. His title comes from a speech by George Bush senior in 1991, when he said that the main principle of his new world order was, `what we say goes'. In eight interviews conducted in 2006 and 2007, Chomsky and radio journalist David Barsamian cover ...

Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire

11 reviews

South End Press, 2000

Simple yet hard-hitting. A must read
I read this book in 3 hours on a long haul flight and then talked my neighbouring passenger into following suit. It's that good. A stirring page turner with simple unawashed straight-talk about politics, religion, world order, even the vagaries of corporatization. Really, I hesitate to make this into a long intellectual review but you will find themes ranging from the opportunism of Gandhi, to ...

Propaganda and the Public Mind

12 reviews
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

South End Press, 2001

For a life more illuminated...
Love him or hate him, Noam Chomsky serves a vital role to any thoughtful and/or politically minded individual in the United States today. By focusing on what you're NOT hearing from the major media sources and political powers, Chomsky engages his audiences by exhaustively cataloging his sources and letting them make their own decisions on what they need to do with the information. This book ...

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said

3 reviews
Edward W. Said

South End Press, 2003

Sane Politics in Israel/Palestine
Edward Said died on September 25, 2003, after a long battle with leukemia, and along with him the foremost voice for justice for Palestinians in the United States. The six conversations herein took place between 1999 and 2003. Despite the gravity of the subject material, this is an interesting and enjoyable read thanks to Said's towering intellect and Barsamian's perceptive and incisive ...

Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

7 reviews
Tariq Ali, David Barsamian

New Press, 2005

Learnt a Lot
As a solitary, anguished New Yorker, afflicted by the nightmares of this world, I found the Ali-Barsamian conversation both refreshing and cheery. To be honest I learnt a great deal and can now read the NYT more critically. I have never read such material on Pakistan, Iraq and, yes, Israel. I am not Jewish, but have been sympathetic to Israel because of the past. No longer. The flow of the ...

The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting: Creating Alternative Media

2 reviews
David Barsamian

South End Press, 2001

A brief but compelling argument
In this book David Barsamian quotes Ben Bagdikian as saying that in 1983 there 50 corporations dominating the media. In 2000 there were six. We have an ever shrinking handful of interlocking massive conglomerates controlling media outlets which people are forced to turn to for news. In the beginning of the book Barsamian covers the accession of Michael Powell, son of our eminent imperial foreign ...

Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine

2 reviews
David Barsamian

South End Press, 2004

Offers thought-provoking insight and strong wake-up calls
In Louder Than Bombs: Interviews From The Progressive Magazine, David Barsamian has compiled some of his very best work interviewing twenty significant and influential "political counter-culture" men and women ranging from Noam Chomsky, to Angela Davis, to Ralph Nader, to Kurt Vonnegut. Each contributer is introduced with a brief description and biographical summary as a precursor to his or her ...

Terrorism: Theirs and Ours

9 reviews
Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian

Open Media, 2001

Required reading for people who want real freedom
This book affirms that American foreign allies are classified on whether their own goals converge or diverge from our own. During the 1970's and 1980's we had partnered with Saddam, deciding that he was a 'brutal dictator' only when his objectives no longer echoed American public policy priorities. Similarly, the people whom the State department now identifies as being 'dangerous' were at ...

Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian

6 reviews
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Common Courage Press, 2002

Excellent Intro to Chomsky
I found this book more-or-less by accident, not realizing just what I was getting into. I was in 2nd year university I believe, and found this name Chomsky came up on many of the topical searches I would look up at the university library, with evocative (provocative?!?) titles like "deterring Democracy" "the Washington Connection and Third World Fascism" etc... I was curious. I have always been a ...

Class Warfare
Noam Chomsky

Pluto Press, 1996

Some of the questions that Chomsky answers in this second volume of interviews with David Barsamian include: why do nightly newscasts increasingly feature violent crimes?; how does the American political economy supercede gender and race?; when do "family values" equal increasing numbers of children in poverty? Chomsky tackles the shibboleths of our age with characteristic insight, providing an indispensable introduction to his political ...

The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile
Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian

HarperPerennial, 2004

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward Said
David Barsamian, Edward W. Said

Pluto Press, 2003

Imperial Ambitions : Conversations on the Post-9/11 World [American Empire Project] (American Empire Project)

25 reviews
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, 2005

the hobo philosopher
I hate reading this guy but I feel that it is my obligation. Mr. Chomsky has to be about as far left as left can go. But he is so well informed and so persuasive. He has got all the political arguments that most of us don't even want to consider. But you can't read Mr. Chomsky without opening up your mind. If you have a closed mind you won't be able to read him at all. In a debate Alan ...

The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian

3 reviews
Howard Zinn, David Barsamian

Common Courage Press, 2002

I Respect Howard Zinn, Too bad he's a Marxist:
"The Future of History" is an enlightening read if you agree that Marxism is the direction this country should be heading in. And even though Zinn's historical zeitgeist struggles to pedagogically be the proverbial elenchus to capitalism. Zinn's objurgation of capitalism is flawed simply because capitalism and communism both possess diphasic properties, which make them quasi-economic paradoxes. ...

Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews With David Barsamian

4 reviews
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Common Courage Press, 1994

Good Chomsky starting point
Ok, so I read the longish review a couple down from this, and although it seemed to be well laid out, there is one point of reference missing. Noam Chomsky takes no "political" stance against "conservatives", "liberals", "communists", "libertarians" or any other names one can come up with. He seems only to be interested in defending human beings not their ideas, whatever they may be; ...

Eqbal Ahmad ; Confronting Empire
David Barsamian

Vanguard Books Pvt. Ltd., 2003

Class Warfare

8 reviews
Noam Chomsky

Pluto Press, 1996

Play it again, Sam
Barsamian has apparently figured out a way to benefit both himself and Chomsky by publishing interviews with the ever wide-ranging scourge of American foreign policy. For long-time readers, not much new should be expected from a casual book like this; nor is there. If any sub-theme surfaces, it is Chomsky's deepening opposition to corporate America. The book is aptly titled. In fact it ...

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