Progressive/left Armenians: Barsamian

[Vayri7X]

David Barsamian

 

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. He is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.

 

His latest books are The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, and Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine.

 

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 U.S., 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.

 

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

 

 

Lists of his books. He is a prolific writer, who employs excellent journalistic skills in the art of interview.

[vava]

There's a nice interview with Peter Balakian (author of The Burning Tigris, and Black Dog of Faith) on the Alternative Radio site.

[Vayri7X]

There's a nice interview with Peter Balakian (author of The Burning Tigris, and Black Dog of Faith) on the Alternative Radio site.

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Ah yeah.. speaking of radio interviews, there is a radio interview with Markar Melkonian, who just put out " My Brother's Road" , about Monte Melkonian on " All Things Armenian".

 

http://www.csufresno.edu/kfsr/ata.html

 

Program # 56, I think.

[Boghos]

Just a question on semantic: even though I am used to see "progressive" and "left (adj.)" ued interchangeably, I think these are two contradictory concepts.

[Vayri7X]

If one takes the term " progress" as short-hand for economically " liberal" ( the opposite of socially liberal) economic policies, then yes, I see the contradiction.

 

But, how do you mean it?

[shaunt]

I call myself a progressive, but I'd never call myself a liberal. I definitely differentiate between the two.

[Vayri7X]

I call myself a progressive, but I'd never call myself a liberal. I definitely differentiate between the two.

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Hmm .. maybe should take this into the politics section?

 

Well, I agree. I have this nasty habit of when I hear liberal , I think of " liberalizing" economic policies. I.e., structural adjustment programs via the IMF/World Bank and austerity measures . In economic ( and hence social terms) , these are what one would definitnely call " right wing" when considering who benefits and whose interests are best served by such policies.

 

Similarly, my brain hears "libertarian" , and my default mental model is not that of "free market" capitalist economics coupled with purportedly open social mores. Rather, I tend to think of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions such as the CNT (France, Spain, South Asia) or the old FAI of the Spanish Civil War variety. Also, libertarian inferring anti-authoritarian or horizontally structured platforms of decision making.

 

The confusion is understandable. Also for those who may consider themselves to be socially open or permissive, yet economically conservative, the term progressive could be misleading. This fits the model of certain notions of progress. ( Check "The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century" by E. Bradforn Burns for some of the implications of the ideology of progress .

 

In netspeak: ya, LOL, like ...confuuzzzinng ! LOL . Blah blah.

 

 

 

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[vava]

http://print.google.com/print?id=fg9umRZXV...cgPL8l3wldPzb-U

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Hello. This is new

 

Google Print?? Wow!

     

What is Google Print?

Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.

 

That's pretty darn spanky! Google has done it again (yet again!) Thanks for that link Vayri...

[Vayri7X]

Huraz!! Am glad you like