The bigger controversy-David Barsamian!

David Barsamian is a radio broadcaster and is the founder of Alternative radio through which he speaks out to the people and talks about humanitarianism. He currently resides in U.S.A and is also well known as a writer and a journalist. The major focus of his career is on the issues curtailing to the American state and its people. He talks about the political concerns of the people of U.S.A. His interviews and articles appear in The Progressive, The Nation, Z and other journals and magazines.

He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He has presently written a book with Noam Chomsky called What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky. His recent and most well known publication is Targetting Iran

This leads me to my next point regarding the reason why Pakistani journalists simply admire Barsamian. Well it seems that the U.S.A media, advised by the U.S.A government has been keeping the “real truth” (as Barsamian puts it) hidden about the birth of terrorism. What he talks about is the actual first start of the concept of jihad brought on by the U.S president Reagan who first introduced the concept of jihad into the minds of the young. However the fact that jihad is only an Islamic concept is what is believed by people all over the world.

In an interview he ridiculed Bush’s ideas about a free democratic Pakistan by saying that democracy was stubbed in Pakistan by the intervenes of the U.S.A government itself. He has been controversial ever since in the United States and has faced a number of charges against him. He accused the us for interfering in the matters of Iraq he states that since the middle east has the best oil reserves in therefore it is safe and the units beside it and being taken In control by the U.S.A govt. he openly blamed the government for hoarding up the states money and using them to fund the “weaker states” by buying them and making them work according to their stand.

He also criticized the United States for pushing the Pakistani government and not allowing them to speak for their own. He said that people like Ahmed Rashid needed to be heard and their ideas need to be put forward. The call of the white people in U.S.A are the only that are answered by the government, ignoring the pleas of the people of say Pakistan, Iraq or Afghanistan. It is Pakistan who is responsible for itself not the U.S.A government who feels that it is upon them to reduce “the white man’s burden”.