David Barsamian: Global Discontents
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2018-04-25

David Barsamian, award-winning founder and director of Alternative Radio talks on the subject matter of his latest book with Noam Chomsky and identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.

Barsamian starts off harkening back to the very beginning, and recollects how he, as a young community radio apprentice in Boulder CO first contacted Noam Chomsky for an interview and had to call him back because he couldn’t figure out how to get the tape recorder to work.  From this awkward beginning the ground-breaking nation wide radio program emerged.  AR is now in it’s 3rd decade and heard on more than 270 radio stations.  This collaboration has inspired 11 books in with Chomsky alone.

In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren" one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it's up to us to radically change it.

The new book is “Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy”.  Order it from Elliott Bay Bookstore.

Thanks to Elliott Bay Books
Recorded  2/21/18

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