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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 05/10/11

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Brian Tokar – Climate Justice (lecture) Earth Days come and go. Wonderful speeches are made. Corporations, the biggest polluters, take out ads assuring the public they are green and are dedicated to preserving the environment. And then it’s plunder and exploit business a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/03/11

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Simon Johnson on Megabanks: Too Big to Save (lecture) It was an unusual moment at the 2011 Oscars. Charles Ferguson, director of the award-winning documentary "Inside Job," told the audience, "Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific fi... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/26/11

Airs at: Tue, 04/26/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva  - War on the Earth  (interview) The predatory practices of corporations are increasingly turning our fragile garden into a junkyard. Citizens are told by their political masters and the corporados who pay them that there is no alternative. That’s true if o... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/19/11

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Robert Fisk/Araxie Barsamian - The Armenian Holocaust (lecture) In 1915, the Turkish government launched a premeditated organized campaign to eliminate the millennia-old Armenian people from their traditional homeland in what is now southeastern Turkey. The Turkish offici... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/12/11

Airs at: Tue, 04/12/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Manning Marable – By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X (lecture) Manning Marable died on April 1st of this year. He was 60 years old. At the time of his death, Marable had completed a biography of activist Malcolm X, entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. In the book he out... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/05/11

Airs at: Tue, 04/05/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Kathy Christison - Settlements: Obstacles to Peace (lecture) There are some 500,000 Israelis living in settlements on what is almost universally regarded as Palestinian land. The first houses went up in the late 1960s and have continued under both Labor and Likud governme... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/29/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Beyond Vietnam (lecture) Every year, almost like clockwork around his birthday, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" gets airplay. The charismatic orator is frozen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. No doubt it was a great a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/22/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/22/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Parvaiz Bukhari on "Dateline: Kashmir" (interview) Host David Barsamian speaks with Parvaiz Bukhari, an independent journalist reporting from Indian-controlled Kashmir. His articles appear in major South Asian newspapers, journals and magazines as well as "The Nation." Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/15/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Arundhati Roy: Revolts & Rebellions (interview) Beyond the hoopla of robust growth rates and hype about the world’s largest democracy, India is beset by major revolts and rebellions over a vast area. Some, like the one in Kashmir, are for independence. Others, like the mult... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/01/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
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 uni... Read more