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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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Chris Giannou - Understanding the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 09/02/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Large parts of the Middle East today are engulfed in violence. Why? What historical factors shape the current conflicts? Take Iraq for example, a country in chaos. The U.S. has been intervening in Iraq non-stop for decades. What has it produced? Sectarianism and strife. Dea... Read more

David Cay Johnston - Societal Impact of Inequality

Airs at: Tue, 08/26/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The U.S. has the dubious distinction of being the most unequal of all developed countries. The gaps between rich and poor have not been seen since the Gilded Age over a century ago. The one-tenth of one percent is loaded with stocks, bonds, hedge funds, cash and property. T... Read more

Paul Ehrlich - Distress Signals from Earth

Airs at: Tue, 08/19/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
A steady stream of reports on the deterioration of the environment is issued. There is a brief flurry of media coverage. The corporate-funded climate change deniers make counter claims. We wake briefly to the crisis then most of us lapse into a couch potato stupor. Neoliber... Read more

Chris Hedges - Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire

Airs at: Tue, 08/12/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Hedges - Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire 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 Wa... Read more

Sandra Steingraber on Contamination Without Consent

Airs at: Tue, 08/05/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Sandra Steingraber on Contamination Without Consent Sandra Steingraber is a biologist, professor, writer and environmental health expert. In the tradition of Rachel Carson she is a leading voice alerting the public to toxic trespassing and the dangers posed by fracking. She... Read more

Vandana Shiva - Seeds & Freedom

Airs at: Tue, 07/29/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
What's in a seed? Life itself. Ten thousand years ago, Iraq, Egypt and India were the sites of the earliest sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathered in the wild. It was a revolutionary development and made civilization possible. Since then humans ha... Read more

Lester Brown - The Future of Civilization

Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
When it comes to climate change the operative word is "hot" with "record" and "unprecedented" closely following. UN conferences on climate do little beyond the powerful issuing grandiose proclamations about how green they are and then it's back to their destructive policies... Read more

Glenn Greenwald - Unmasking the NSA

Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Imagine a gigantic vacuum cleaner scooping up all electronic communications. That's what the National Security Agency does. Think you are safe from NSA snooping? That you can hide behind clever passwords? Think again. The Agency has the capability to generate one billion pa... Read more

Paul Cienfuegos - Community Rights

Airs at: Tue, 07/08/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Paul Cienfuegos is a regional 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, co-founded Commu... Read more

Richard Wolff - Naked Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 07/01/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a visiting professor 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 in... Read more