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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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Bill McKibben on Breaking Away from Fossil Fuels

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Bill McKibben was one of the first to sound the alarm on climate change with his bestselling book The End of Nature. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, he is a leading environmental activist. His other books include The Age of Missing Information, Hope, Human ... Read more

Thomas Frank on Hey Liberal, Listen Up

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The ironies, agonies and hypocrisies in the U.S. political system are in high-relief during a presidential election year. The role of big money undermines the integrity of one person, one vote. The state of the electoral infrastructure, almost laughable, is a national em... Read more

Noam Chomsky – Toward a Better Society

Airs at: Tue, 04/26/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  I’m often asked about Noam Chomsky. How did I connect with the legendary MIT professor?  Very simply, I wrote him a letter around 1980 and to my surprise he responded. A correspondence ensued. We did our first interview in 1984. Two years after that I decided to launch A... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/19/16

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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Vandana Shiva – We Are All Seeds

Airs at: Tue, 04/12/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. She’s a physicist, scholar and social activist. She is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi.  Seeds, those lit... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/05/16

Airs at: Tue, 04/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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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 au... 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 Ac... 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 str... 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. In ... Read more