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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.



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

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, deli... 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 ... Read more

Mohammad Fadel on Egypt in Crisis (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/15/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The Egyptian Revolution, which in early 2011 overthrew the decades-old Mubarak dictatorship, stirred the imagination of the world. The so-called Arab Spring was in full bloom. Anything seemed possible. The region's decrepit and feudal regimes were in danger of falling. T... Read more

David Nibert Speaks on the Animal Industrial Complex

Airs at: Tue, 10/08/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
David Nibert, a former tenant organizer and community activist, is an award-winning writer and professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio. He is the author of Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of and Animal Oppression and Human Violence. Many have h... Read more

Vandana Shiva - Food Security & GMOs (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva - Food Security & GMOs (lecture)Genetically modified organisms, GMOs have become hot button issues in more and more communities. GMOs are plants with altered DNA. Its proponents, large corporations like Monsanto, hail the technology as a revolutionary solut... Read more

Host David Barsamian speaks with documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak about Kashmir

Airs at: Tue, 09/24/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Sanjay Kak - Kashmir: Hell in Heaven (interview)Kashmir is spectacularly gorgeous but the travel magazine spreads and tourist brochures mask a less than heavenly reality. An ongoing conflict has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Kashmiris. The Himalayan region is d... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/17/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Arundhati Roy on Women and Resistance (interview)During the worst years of the dirty war in Argentina, thousands of people were disappeared by the junta. In response, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was formed. Their weekly vigils demanding answers brought global attention ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/10/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Victoria Banyard is professor of pyschology at the University of New Hampshire. Her articles on sexual violence prevention have appeared in leading scholarly journals. She has been a guest editor for numerous special journal issues on the theme of sexual violence, includ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/03/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Samantha Power on Genocide: A Problem from Hell (lecture) From Rwanda to Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of systematic state violence. In 1915 when Turkey sent its Armenian population on death marches into the desert, U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau denounced w... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/27/13

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 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 wi... Read more