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Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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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Marjorie Cohn on Death from Above: Drones

Airs at: Tue, 03/31/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. She is the former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is the author of many books and she is the editor of Drones and Targeted Killing. Cohn is a recipient of the Peace Scholar of the Year... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/24/15

Airs at: Tue, 03/24/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio

Richard Wolff - 21st Century Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 03/17/2015 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. Read more

Reese Erlich - Cuba & the U.S.: a New Beginning

Airs at: Tue, 03/10/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Reese Erlich is an award-winning journalist and a special correspondent with GlobalPost. He also reports regularly for NPR, Deutsche Welle and the CBC. He is the author of Inside Syria andDateline Havana. The rigid and dogmatic decades-old policy of Washington toward Havana... Read more

Loretta Napoleoni on "The ISIS Crisis"

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Loretta Napoleoni is an independent journalist. She has worked as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica, El Pais, and Le Monde. A former Fulbright scholar, she holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics. She is t... Read more

Angela Davis on Transnational Solidarity

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Angela Davis, one of the iconic figures of this era, graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and pursued graduate studies at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt and the University of California at San Diego. Acquitted on conspiracy charges in 1970, after one of the... Read more

Michael Eric Dyson - Malcolm X & the Politics of Race

Airs at: Tue, 02/17/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Michael Eric Dyson has written with insight and depth about Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King. He is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. A dynamic political orator in his own right, Professor Dyson spoke at the University of Colorado in Boulder as part of Bl... Read more

Cornel West on Love and Justice

Airs at: Tue, 02/10/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Cornel West, University Professor of Religion at Princeton, has been called "the preeminent African American intellectual of his generation." With his preacher-like cadences and passionate delivery, he is much in demand as a speaker. A prolific author, his book Race Matters... Read more

Michelle Alexander on Incarceration Nation

Airs at: Tue, 02/03/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in Northern California, she served as a law clerk for U.S.... Read more

Nadine Strossen - Spying, Secrecy & Suppression

Airs at: Tue, 01/27/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Nadine Strossen is professor of law at New York Law School. She served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008 and now sits on its National Advisory Council. She was twice named one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by The Nationa... Read more