David Barsamian, born on this day in 1945, is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer, and the founder of Alternative Radio, a Colorado-based syndicated weekly public affairs program heard on ~250 radio stations worldwide.

Barsamian has interviewed and edited the works of many important leftist thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Richard Wolff, Eqbal Ahmad, and Edward Said.

"I'm using dissonance in a musical sense...we're given this harmonic construction [by the media] 'The world is good; America is great.' I want to trouble that harmonic construction with some dissonant notes."

- David Barsamian