Alternative Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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

2030: The End of U.S. Empire

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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It’s most likely historians will mark the War on Terror, declared by George W. Bush in 2001, as when the U.S. went into precipitous decline. The rapid military expansion into multiple countries was classic imperial overreach. The era of the U.S. as the sole superpower is... Read more

War or Peace in Korea: Eric Sirotkin

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. What can you say? They are lightweights fighting in the heavyweight division while the fate of possibly millions are at risk. Two heads of state trading taunts and insults back and forth like kids in a schoolyard. Trump declared that talking... Read more

JFK Assassination & the Gangster State: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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The murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is the most discussed, scrutinized and written about assassination in history. The official narrative is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas and that there was "no evidence of any conspiracy, domestic ... Read more

Origins of Radical Right-Wing Power

Airs at: Tue, 11/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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The history of the anti-government and anti-democratic politics that have transformed the U.S. in recent years is largely obscured from view. The radical right’s agenda includes: suppression of voting rights, privatization of everything from schools to Medicare to Social... Read more

In Defense of Civil Liberties: Glenn Greenwald

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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The definition of civil liberties is straightforward. They are rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution allowing individuals to be free to speak, think, assemble, organize, worship, or petition without government or even private interference or restra... Read more

The Iran Deal: Trita Parsi

Airs at: Tue, 10/31/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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The self-styled deal maker is a deal breaker when it comes to the historic agreement limiting Iranian uranium enrichment in return for the lifting of sanctions. Trump refused to certify Iranian compliance and passed the ball to Congress which now must decide. But the UN ... Read more

Building Resilience in a Post-Carbon Society: Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Tue, 10/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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David Suzuki, the renowned Canadian environmental activist, author and broadcaster, says, “If you fly over a forest and look down, you'll see every green tree and plant reaching to the heavens to absorb the ultimate energy source: sunlight. What a contrast when you look ... Read more