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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.


Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.



Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
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Richard Falk – U.S. Special Relationships in the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 04/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton. He is the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize. He served as special rapporteur for the United Nations from 2008-2014 on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. He is the... Read more

Tom Mayer – Is the U.S. an Imperialist Nation?

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Tom Mayer is a scholar activist. He taught sociology for forty years at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He is the author Analytical Marxism. He has written numerous articles in academic and political journals and in newspapers. He is the recipient of the Lifetime... Read more

Alan Maass – The Case for Socialism

Airs at: Tue, 03/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign has injected the term socialism into the political discourse. While calling himself a democratic socialist, Sanders is much closer to a traditional New Deal liberal. Socialism is a political philosophy with a singular approach to ... Read more

Noam Chomsky – 2016 Harvard Trade Union

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato and Freud. The legendary MIT professor practically invented modern linguistics. ... Read more

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Black Lives Matter

Airs at: Tue, 03/08/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her articles appear in CounterPunch, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Jacobin, International Socialist Review and The Guardian. She is the author of ... Read more

Thomas Linzey – Local Community Self-Government

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Thomas Linzey is co-founder and executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and serves as its chief legal counsel. He is the author of Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Mo... Read more

Camara Phyllis Jones – Race & Health

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Camara Phyllis Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist. She is president of the American Public Health Association and Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. For more than a year the public was complai... Read more

Arun Gupta – Terrorism, Climate Change & Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Arun Gupta, journalist and activist, was a founding editor of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal. His articles appear in Alternet, Truthout, The Guardian, and Z. He also appears on Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera. So far in the 21st century very little h... Read more

Manning Marable – By Any Means Necessary

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Manning Marable, a renowned scholar, was professor of public affairs, political science, history and African American studies at Columbia University. His syndicated column "Along the Color Line" appeared in over 400 newspapers and journals worldwide. He’s the author of m... Read more

Dean Baker – The TPP: A Corporate Deal

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Dean Baker, a former professor of economics at Bucknell University, is co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, D.C. His articles appear in the Guardian Unlimited and TruthOut. He is the author of Getting Back to Full Employment and False Pro... Read more