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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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Abdullah Al-Arian - Inside the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 01/20/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Abdullah Al-Arian is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar.; He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism ... Read more

Tavis Smiley on The Hidden Dr. King

Airs at: Tue, 01/13/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr has been shrink-wrapped and formatted to be innocuous and non-threatening. Dream speeches, desegregation, voting rights, and Selma marches could be accommodated. But when he articulated a critique of the system as a whole then he became a danger t... Read more

Rashid Khalidi on Armenia, Kurdistan & Palestine: Unhealed Wounds of World War I

Airs at: Tue, 01/06/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies at Columbia University, where he directs the Middle East Institute. The Los Angeles Times calls him “arguably the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East.” He is the author of many books including Resurrectin... Read more

Chris Giannou on Understanding the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 12/30/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Giannou was chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has worked in many war zones. He is the author of Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life & Death in Beirut. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada. Large parts of the Middle East today are e... Read more

Justin Lewis - Media & Consumer Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 12/23/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Orchestrated wants driven by sophisticated advertising techniques have created a culture of consumption. Appetites for the latest hot thing are engineered. Media campaigns sell cool and sexy. Marketing is key. Data are collected. People are profiled, then targeted. Cell pho... Read more

Vandana Shiva - Radical Compassion

Airs at: Tue, 12/16/2014 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. She's the recipien... Read more

Michael Schwartz - Oil & Gas Wars

Airs at: Tue, 12/09/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His articles appear in TomDispatch, Mother Jones, Against the Current, and Z. He is the author of many books including War Without End: The Iraq War in Cont... Read more

Josh Reubner - Shattered Peace: Israel-Palestine

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Josh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. He founded and directed Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel, which merged with Jewish Voice for Peace.  He is the author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israe... Read more

Michelle Alexander - Race & Caste in America

Airs at: Tue, 11/25/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
 Michelle Alexander - Race & Caste in America 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... Read more

Naomi Klein - Capitalism vs. the Climate

Airs at: Tue, 11/18/2014 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. "Human beings and the natural world are... Read more