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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.



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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: 
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Thomas Frank on What's the Matter with the Democratic Party?

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Thomas Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler magazine. He is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas? The Wrecking Crew, Pity the Billionaire and Listen, Liberal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt must be flipping in his grave as many of his cherished New Deal program... Read more

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Black Lives Matter

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2016 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 Frank – Hey Liberal, Listen Up

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Thomas Frank is a prominent political commentator and the founding editor of The Baffler magazine. He is the author of many books including One Market Under God, What's the Matter with Kansas? The Wrecking Crew, Pity the Billionaire and Listen, Liberal. The ironies, ago... Read more

Michael Parenti - Fascism: The False Revolution

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Michael Parenti is a brilliant orator and one of this country's foremost independent political analysts. He has taught at major colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of numerous books Democracy for the Few, The Face of Imperialism, and  The ... Read more

Naomi Klein – The Radical Leap

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Naomi Klein of Canada, an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker, is in the forefront of environmental activism. Her articles appear in major newspapers and magazines all over the world. She is the author of the bestseller This Changes Everything. Political orga... Read more

Cornel West – On the Road to Freedom

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Cornel West has taught at Princeton, Harvard, Yale and the University of Paris. He is now teaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has been called "the preeminent African American intellectual of his generation." With his preacher-like cadences and passiona... Read more

Stephen Bezruchka on In Sickness & in Wealth

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Stephen Bezruchka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. He worked for many years as an emergency physician in Seattle. His particular areas of research are population health and societal hierarchy. He has spent over 10 yea... Read more

Nader Hashemi – The Broken Politics of the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Nader Hashemi is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. His articles appear in leading newspapers, journals and magazines. He is the auth... Read more

John Kiriakou – The War on Whistleblowers

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  John Kiriakou is a former CIA agent who was indicted on three counts of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. He served almost two years in prison. He is featured in the documentary Silenced. He is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, and a blogger for ... Read more

Rami Khouri speaks on Arab Jails & American Jets

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The book The Management of Savagery is a teaching manual of the so-called Islamic State, aka ISIS. It defines the techniques of deploying terror. The book outlines how a group of militants could seize land and establish their own self-governing Islamic state. It lays out... Read more