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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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Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
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Nomi Prins on "The Wall Street/White House Axis"

Airs at: Tue, 05/27/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
When the financial history of this era is written it will scarcely be believed. Never have so many been ripped off by so few. There is an insidious alliance between Wall Street and the White House. It is a pernicious development in the annals of power. That partnership shap... Read more

Jeremy Scahill on The National Security Beast

Airs at: Tue, 05/20/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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Jeremy Scahill - The National Security Beast (lecture) The national security beast is a terrifying behemoth that extends its tentacles across the globe. Like a many-headed hydra it grows and grows. It has an insatiable appetite for weaponry. For example, in late 2013, the n... Read more

5/6 - Pratap Chatterjee - Outsourcing the War on Terror

Airs at: Tue, 05/06/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Pratap Chatterjee is an independent journalist and radio producer. His articles appear in the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Independent. He has won five Project Censored awards as well as a Silver Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his w... Read more

Martin Espada: Remembering Well & Raising Hell

Airs at: Tue, 04/29/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Martin Espada is a leading poet. His collection Imagine the Angels of Bread won the American Book Award. A former tenant lawyer, he teaches in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of Zapata's Disciple, A Mayan Astronomer ... Read more

Journalists Robert McChesney and John Nichols speak on "Dollarocracy"

Airs at: Tue, 04/22/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert McChesney (pictured at left) teaches at the University of Illinois. He is the author of many books including Digital Disconnect. He is co-author with John Nichols of Dollarocracy. He is a founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. The Utne Reader li... Read more

Sandra Steingraber on Contamination Without Consent

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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 is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Lo... Read more

Paul Ehrlich on Distress Signals from Earth

Airs at: Tue, 04/08/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Paul Ehrlich on Distress Signals from Earth Paul Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies in the Department of Biology and president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences... Read more

Rahul Mahajan and Snehal Shingavi on The Rise of the Hindu Right in India

Airs at: Tue, 04/01/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
A constellation of Hindu fundamentalist organizations are threatening to shatter the image India has projected of being a secular state. The Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, is the political expression of Hindutva, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology. It is poised to be t... Read more

Bryan Stevenson - Justice for Some (interview)

Airs at: Tue, 03/25/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a professor at NYU School of Law. He has gained acclaim for his work challenging the U.S. legal system's biases against the in... Read more

Max Blumenthal on "Goliath Israel"

Airs at: Tue, 03/18/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post, and other publications. He is the author of Republican Gomorrah and Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.  As Blum... Read more