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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: 
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Program status: 
Current

Vandana Shiva - Recovery of the Commons

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
It is almost a given that the industrialized countries, the North, are the epitome of progress and wisdom. The South, the Third World, is a place of backwardness and ignorance, but it does have lots of resources. The North wants to use those resources to continue to enri... Read more

Greg Grandin on "Kissingerism"

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
At age 92, Henry Kissinger is a legend. Over decades, he has assiduously cultivated and constructed the image of the sagacious elder statesman. Corporate journalists hang on his every word. Politicians seek his advice. But is the respect and reverence he receives deserve... Read more

Ali Abunimah - Justice in Palestine

Airs at: Tue, 11/03/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Ali Abunimah is an internationally recognized Palestinian-American journalist. He is co-founder and director of the Electronic Intifada, an independent online news service on Palestine. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guar... Read more

Edward Said - Culture & Imperialism

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Edward Said, internationally renowned Columbia University professor, practically invented the field of post-colonial studies. His great works Orientalism and Culture & Imperialism have been translated into many languages and is widely used in colleges and universities. T... Read more

Katha Pollitt on The Fate of Legal Abortion

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Katha Pollitt, an award-winning essayist, poet and critic, is best known for her column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation magazine. She is the author of Virginity or Death!and Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. She is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award f... Read more

Osagyefo Sekou - Faith, Ferguson & Nonviolent Resistance

Airs at: Tue, 10/13/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Osagyefo Sekou is an author, documentary filmmaker, public intellectual, organizer, pastor and theologian. He is the author of Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Race, Religion, and the Future of Democracy. He has been active in Ferguson on behalf of the Fellowship of Recon... Read more

Chris Hedges - Extraction Industries & Sexploitation

Airs at: Tue, 10/06/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org and is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of many books including Empire of Illusion, D... Read more

David Korten - A New Story

Airs at: Tue, 09/29/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
David Korten was an insider in the development establishment for several decades. He worked for the Ford Foundation and USAID and taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business. Having severed his ties to the past, today he is a leading voice for economic and... Read more

Tom Hayden on "A Climate Change"

Airs at: Tue, 09/22/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Tom Hayden has been involved in many of America's social movements for decades. He was the main author of the 1962 Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, the campus-based, activist movement. He went from street protests and being indict... Read more

Deepa Kumar - Imperialist Feminism

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Deepa Kumar is an associate professor of media studies and Middle Eastern studies at Rutgers University. She earned her BA at Bangalore University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire and Out... Read more