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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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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 i... 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 ... 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... 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 Matt... 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... 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 Nati... Read more

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 Activi... 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 dange... 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 Resurrec... 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 ar... Read more