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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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Writer Barbara Ehrenreich on "Kicking People When They're Down"

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Barbara Ehrenreich speaks on Kicking People When They're Down (Recorded in Santa Fe, NM on March 13, 2013.) Barbara Ehrenreich is a social critic, journalist, and activist. She received a PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University. In the 1970’s, she was involved with... Read more

Paul Cienfuegos on Community Rights

Airs at: Tue, 12/17/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Most citizens have political opinions. Many are involved in nonprofit community-based organizations. But the time-impaired average person remains politically disorganized and distracted. Collective political action nationally is often limited to mobilizing for wars and elec... Read more

Ray McGovern speaks on Whistleblowers

Airs at: Tue, 12/10/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
What is one to do when confronted by blatant criminal actions and illegalities? Look the other way? Punch out at 5 and go home? That's not what Edward Snowden did. His disclosures have informed and educated the people of the United States and the world about secret surveill... Read more

Rami Khouri on The Unfinished Arab Revolutions

Airs at: Tue, 12/03/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Rami Khouri - The Unfinished Arab Revolutions (lecture) Lenin was reported to have said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." Revolutions are never simple affairs. The multiple Arab revolts are still in flux. Take Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood in that country w... Read more

David Bacon on Migration & U.S. Policy

Airs at: Tue, 11/26/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
David Bacon - Migration & U.S. Policy (lecture) In the wake of disastrous neo-liberal economic policies, millions of people around the world are on the move looking for work. There is a backlash. In 2012 more than 400,000 people were deported from the U.S. The Obama admini... Read more

Noam Chomsky on The U.S. as a Rogue State

Airs at: Tue, 11/19/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky - The U.S. as a Rogue State (lecture) When you hear the term rogue state what country do you think of? North Korea? The U.S. as a rogue state cannot be uttered in media commentary and the polite discussions of the political illuminati. It is almost unthinkable.... Read more

Richard Wolff speaks on Naked Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 11/12/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff - Naked Capitalism (lecture) Through its myriad booms and busts, capitalism manages to roll with the punches and emerge standing. We are constantly told: it's the only show in town. Do you want the old Soviet Union? No way. But can't we imagine an economic sys... Read more

Edward Said - Culture and Imperialism (archival lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Edward Said - Culture and Imperialism (archival lecture) Imperial power is constructed on a bedrock not only of force but of culture as well. Culture provides the crucial underpinning, justification and validation of empire. Its crudest manifestation is perhaps Kipling's "... Read more

Susan Clark - Slow Democracy (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Conventional democracy is being eviscerated. Frustration is mounting with business as usual models dominated by centralized institutions. But there are new initiatives. Local solutions to local problems which incorporate decision-making processes that are inclusive, deliber... Read more

Justin Lewis on Media & Consumer Capitalism (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/22/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Orchestrated wants driven by sophisticated advertising techniques have created a culture of consumption. Appetites for the latest hot thing are engineered. Media campaigns sell cool and sexy. Marketing is key. Data are collected. People are profiled, then targeted. Cell pho... Read more