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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.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

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Alternative Radio on 09/27/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Harry Edwards – The Fire This Time (lecture) “People are practical,” Howard Zinn said. “They want change but feel powerless, alone. They do not want to be the blade of grass that sticks up above the others and is cut down. They wait for a sign from someone else who will mak... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/20/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Jodie Evans – Disturbing Power the CODEPINK Way (interview) Rocking the boat is never an easy task but you can accomplish meaningful things and have some fun along the way. Playing ball with the rich and powerful of course has its rewards. You’re in the golden rolodex. You ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/13/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Robert McChesney The Future of Journalism & Democracy (lecture) Remember that old song “Love and Marriage?” “Goes together like a horse and carriage. You can’t have one without the other.” It’s kind of that way with journalism and democracy. It’s long been axiomatic that a ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/06/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi continues in various ways in India. Gandhi had his flaws but as George Orwell wrote: “compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind.” There are multiple struggles for justice and ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/30/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Arun Gupta speaks on "The Economic Crisis & the Tea Party." You've played by the rules. Went to work every day. Paid your bills and taxes. When your country summoned you to fight in its wars you were proud to serve. You've worked hard all your life and now what do you get? ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/23/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class (lecture) The gradual corruption and demise of the liberal class has occurred without much comment. For decades it was a modest curb against the worst excesses of power. Once the pillars of this class, the Democratic Party, the unio... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/16/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Robert Jensen on The Anguish of the American Dream Robert Jensen is professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of "Citizens of the Empire," "The Heart of Whiteness," and "All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Vo... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/09/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Helen Caldicott - Hiroshima to Fukushima (lecture) The disaster at Fukushima  has thrust the dangers of nuclear power back in people’s consciousness. The idea of an industry renaissance had been carefully orchestrated by corporations that stand to make tons of money. Polit... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/02/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Gar Alperovitz on Hiroshima: New Facts & Old Myths, Recorded in Ames, IA on November 07, 1994 Gar Alperovitz is one of the most highly regarded experts on Hiroshima and U.S. policy. He is professor of political economy at the University of Maryland. His articles appear in ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/26/11

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Stephen Bezruchka - Dying Younger Than We Should (lecture) Over and over U.S. citizens are told, "We have the best health care system in the world." That would be great if it were true but the facts, baldly stated, don’t support the claim. Not only is it far and away the mo... Read more