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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.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

http://www.alternativeradio.org
Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Alternative Radio on 11/23/10

Airs at: Tue, 11/23/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Alfred McCoy speaks on "United States of Surveillance" (lecture) The telescreens in Orwell’s “1984” monitoring Winston Smith are crude devices compared to 21st century technology but they make the point. Big Brother is watching your every move. Today, the weapons of sur... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/16/10

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Matt Taibbi – Corruption: From Russia to Wall Street (lecture) It’s easy to make jokes and feel virtuous when discussing post-Communist Russia. It’s crony capitalism and insider trading at its worst. In comparison, are things much better in the United States? There is ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/09/10

Airs at: Tue, 11/09/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert Fisk - Lies, Cliches, & the Middle East (lecture) Words are a contested battlefield. Propagandists long ago figured out if you control the vocabulary you could dominate any debate or issue, conflict or war. On almost any given day you can read or hear variants o... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/02/10

Airs at: Tue, 11/02/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Paul Cienfuegos – Corporations vs. People (lecture) The Citizens United Supreme Court decision gave corporations a green light to secretly funnel in as much money as they want to elect candidates. The justices in their supreme wisdom have once again privileged corporations... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/26/10

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Gwynne Dyer - Climate Wars (lecture) GWYNNE DYER has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. He writes a twice-weekly col... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/19/10

Airs at: Tue, 10/19/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Stephen Bezruchka - Dying Younger Than We Should (lecture) Over and over U.S. citizens are told,” We have the best health care system in the world.” That would be great if it were true but the facts, baldly stated, don’t support the claim. Not only is it far and away th... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/12/10

Airs at: Tue, 10/12/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
 Alan Maass - The Case for Socialism (lecture) Alan Maass is editor of Socialist Worker newspaper, and author of Why You Should Be a Socialist. Maass says, "Capitalism is built around organized theft - the theft of value of what workers produce by the people who employ t... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/05/10

Airs at: Tue, 10/05/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Andrew Bacevich - The Washington Rules (lecture) Andrew Bacevich's most recent book is Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. Bacevich presents the origins of the unchanging American military policy which was forged at a moment when American power was at its ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/28/10

Airs at: Tue, 09/28/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Tariq Ali - Obama:  The Continuity of U.S. Policy (lecture) Tariq Ali is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator.[1][2] He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contrib... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/21/10

Airs at: Tue, 09/21/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  A Brief History of Zionism with Zachary Lockman Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem where King David had his palace. The term Zionism was coined in the early 1890s and applied to the Jewish national political movement. Zionism got the big power backing it was... Read more