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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.

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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:

Current

Howard Zinn on Against War

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, was perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were constantly moving to stay, as he once told me, "one step ahead of the landlord." After high sch... Read more

Noam Chomsky - "It's In Your Hands"

Airs at: Fri, 05/15/2015 at 9:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

An effective propaganda system encourages people to be discouraged. Hey! Worry about the Kardashian's latest news. Leave the complicated matters of domestic and foreign affairs to the smart guys. This is a recipe for disaster because the ruling class will attend acutely ... Read more

Glenn Greenwald - Why Privacy Matters

Airs at: Tue, 05/12/2015 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 t... Read more

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - From Black Power to the New Jim Crow

Airs at: Tue, 05/05/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is active in local housing struggles in Chicago and is an organizer with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. Her articles appear in CounterPunch, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report and New Politics. She is on the editorial board of the Int... Read more

Paul Cienfuegos - Local Governance

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Paul Cienfuegos is a leader in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called “rights” and assert the people's inherent right to self-government. He founded Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County in 1995, and co-founded Communi... Read more

Robert Fisk / Araxie Barsamian - The Armenian Holocaust

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

This special program marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 1915, "Armenian Martyrs' Day." In 1915, the Turkish government launched a premeditated organized campaign to eliminate the millennia-old Armenian people from their traditional homeland in what ... Read more

Wes Jackson on Restoring Earth Island

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Wes Jackson is a plant geneticist and a leading voice for agrarian reform away from domesticated agriculture. He is the author of New Roots for Agriculture and many books. He is founder of The Land Institute and a member of the World Future Council. Public interest in d... Read more

Chris Hedges on Moral Imperatives

Airs at: Tue, 04/07/2015 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, D... Read more

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 Y... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/24/15

Airs at: Tue, 03/24/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio