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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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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 for ... 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 Reconcil... 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, Deat... 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 so... 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 indicted ... 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 Outsid... Read more

Idrees Ahmad - ISIS, Syria & Journalism

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Ever since the uprising against the Assad regime in Syria began in 2011 the country and its people have endured one horror after another. The carnage has led to not only a quarter of a million dead, and many more wounded, but to the worst refugee crisis in recent memory. Wo... Read more

Richard Wolff - Capitalism: Fantasies & Realities

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff teaches at the New School in New York. The New York Times called him "America's most prominent Marxist economist." He is the author of numerous books including Capitalism Hits the Fan, Democracy at Work and Occupy the Economy with David Barsamian. The stories... Read more

Naomi Klein on Transitioning to Climate Justice

Airs at: Tue, 08/25/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker. Her articles appear in major newspapers and magazines all over the world. She is the author of the bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything. (Photo by-Kourosh-Keshiri) Climate chan... Read more

Glenn Greenwald - Why Privacy Matters

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
In democratic societies some things have long been considered sacrosanct. Such as the right to privacy. Not any more. It is violated on a routine and systematic basis. States scream: national security or terrorism to justify their expansion of surveillance. In terms of the ... Read more