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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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Henry Giroux – The Costs of Neoliberalism

Airs at: Tue, 12/15/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Henry Giroux, a leading social and political critic, teaches at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has written many books including Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education and The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism... Read more

Naomi Klein - Transitioning to Climate Justice

Airs at: Tue, 12/08/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Naomi Klein of Canada 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. Climate change, you've hea... Read more

Christian Parenti on Climate Crisis

Airs at: Tue, 12/01/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Christian Parenti is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011), explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the lega... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on The Other Side of Thanksgiving

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is the author of the 2015 American Book Award-winning An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Her expertise in Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, the Sioux Nation and other indigenous peoples of the Americas is recognized around the world.... Read more

Vandana Shiva - Recovery of the Commons

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
It is almost a given that the industrialized countries, the North, are the epitome of progress and wisdom. The South, the Third World, is a place of backwardness and ignorance, but it does have lots of resources. The North wants to use those resources to continue to enri... Read more

Greg Grandin on "Kissingerism"

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
At age 92, Henry Kissinger is a legend. Over decades, he has assiduously cultivated and constructed the image of the sagacious elder statesman. Corporate journalists hang on his every word. Politicians seek his advice. But is the respect and reverence he receives deserve... Read more

Ali Abunimah - Justice in Palestine

Airs at: Tue, 11/03/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Ali Abunimah is an internationally recognized Palestinian-American journalist. He is co-founder and director of the Electronic Intifada, an independent online news service on Palestine. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guar... Read more

Edward Said - Culture & Imperialism

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Edward Said, internationally renowned Columbia University professor, practically invented the field of post-colonial studies. His great works Orientalism and Culture & Imperialism have been translated into many languages and is widely used in colleges and universities. T... Read more

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 f... 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 Recon... Read more