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Louder Than Bombs
Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
David Barsamian
Pages: 170ISBN: 0-89608-725-5
Format: paper
Release Date: 2004-05-01
This book is also available in cloth
Like a literary salon between book covers, Louder Than Bombs gathers more than twenty high-profile interviews with luminaries on the Left. David Barsamian's insightful questions and captivating manner ignite engaging conversations about work, art, and activism in a difficult world. Drawn from the pages of The Progressive, and published in time to commemorate the magazine's 95th anniversary, Louder Than Bombs provides a comprehensive introduction to the urgent political issues of our time.
Barsamian converses with some of today's finest minds and skillfully weaves their analyses into an entertaining, easy-to-read, and relevant digest.
Interviewees include prison abolitionist Angela Davis; foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky; Nobel-Prize winning economist Amartya Sen; media critic Ben Bagdikian; novelist Edwidge Danticat; radical historian Howard Zinn; actor Danny Glover; novelist Kurt Vonnegut; consumer advocate Ralph Nader; and ecowarrior Vandana Shiva. Conversations with Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali, the late Edward Said, Taylor Branch, Eduardo Galeano, Juan Gonzalez, John Pilger, Ahmed Rashid, Haunani-Kay Trask, and the late Eqbal Ahmad are also featured.
A collaborative project between South End Press and The Progressive Magazine
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Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then British-controlled India. He was educated in Pakistan and then at Oxford. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan during the 1960s led to permanent exile in Britain. He was active in the anti-war movement in Europe during the late 1960s.
Ali is a longstanding editor of New Left Review and has written more than a dozen books on history and politics. His forthcoming book is The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity (Verso, 2002). He also has been working on two sets of novels. Three novels of the “Islamic Quintet” have been published by Verso: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, and The Stone Woman. They portray Islamic civilization in a way that he says “run counter to the standard views.” His “Fall of Communism” trilogy has seen the publication of Redemption and Fear of Mirrors. Ali’s creative output extends to scripts for stage and screen. A short play of his on Iraq was recently performed at Cooper Union in New York. A veritable “all ‘rounder,” as they say in South Asia, he is currently working on an opera on Ayatollah Khomeini.
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David Barsamian
Click here to view David Barsamian's full Author PageDavid 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 recent books with South End Press 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 2003 Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism.