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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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Rebecca Solnit - Breaking Stories

Airs at: Tue, 10/07/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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Rebecca Solnit - Breaking Stories Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of fifteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, the power of stories. Her most recent is comic, scathing essay called “Men Explain Things to Me. Other b... Read more

Bruce Schneier - The Internet, Privacy & Power

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Edward Snowden's remarkable revelations leave no doubt. Big Brother is here. The National Security Agency's PRISM program is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance and data mining system. In plain English: it enables state spying on citizens. The American Civil Liber... Read more

Arundhati Roy – Gandhi & Caste

Airs at: Tue, 09/23/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
States have their iconic heroes. Founding Fathers. Jinnah in Pakistan, Ataturk in Turkey, George Washington in the U.S., Gandhi in India. To criticize them is risky business as they have been elevated to god-like status. Gandhi is no exception. He is revered and honored.... Read more

Deepa Kumar & Arun Kundnani - Racism & Surveillance

Airs at: Tue, 09/16/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a long history of spying on African Americans including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The great writer Richard Wright, who was also snooped on, wrote the poem "The FB Eye Blues:" Woke up this morning/FB Eye under m... Read more

Mohamad Elmasry - Egypt: From Pharaoh to Pharaoh

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Egypt's latest pharaoh is Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He orchestrated a coup toppling the democratically elected government of Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013. The U.S. refused to call it a coup, rather it lauded the action as "restoring democracy." About a year l... Read more

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. ... 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... 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. Neoli... 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... 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. S... Read more