Alternative Radio
- Fridays, 8:00am–9:00am
Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly
one-hour public affairs program that provides information, analyses and views that
are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
Host David Barsamian, author, speaker, interviewer
and journalist, along with his guest speakers, offers the listener to ponder
democracy, world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media,
the economic crisis and global rebellions.
David has altered the independent media
landscape, both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radio - now in its 29th year - and his books with
Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy
and Edward Said. His latest book of interviews with Noam Chomsky is Power
Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to
U.S. Empire. His best-selling books with Chomsky have been translated into
many languages.
He is
winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for
independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan
Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top
Ten Media Heroes. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
