Alternative Radio

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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 12/14/10

Airs at: Tue, 12/14/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Bill Moyers – Organize! Honoring Howard Zinn (lecture) Joe Hill, born in Sweden, emigrated to the United States in 1902, where he became a migrant laborer. When he was a dockworker in California, Hill joined the Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW. He traveled widely... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/07/10

Airs at: Tue, 12/07/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class (lecture) The gradual corruption and demise of the liberal class has occurred without much comment. For decades it was a modest curb against the worst excesses of power. Once the pillars of this class, the Democratic Party, the union... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/30/10

Airs at: Tue, 11/30/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Fatima Bhutto – Pakistan: The Jackals Rule (lecture) Pakistan has received billions in U.S. aid. Where is that money? Much of it has gone missing. The jackals rule in Pakistan. A series of venal military and civilian leaders have devastated and looted the country. Historica... Read more

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 surve... 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 c... 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 of ... 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 o... 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 column... 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 the ... 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 them." Read more