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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 04/24/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/24/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Gar Alperovitz – A New Economic Paradigm (interview) When something doesn’t work you either get it fixed or replace it. Makes sense right? Take capitalism. It careens from crisis to crisis. It has systemic structural problems. The traditional remedies, such as legislative ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/17/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Thomas Frank – Ideology Over Reality (lecture) Ideology is a set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political and economic system. It can evolve in strange ways to the point where evidence and facts are not only irrelevant but are treated with scorn and ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/10/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/10/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Maude Barlow – Not a Drop to Drink (lecture) Many know Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and its famous “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” Perhaps less known is Mark Twain’s, “Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting.” Today, the UN warns, “T... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/03/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Michael Parenti speaks on "The Pathology of Wealth" (lecture) As the planet moves closer to environmental catastrophe, the captains of industry, the robber barons of the age, could hardly be bothered. They have more important matters to consider. Making money. And they bet... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/27/12

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff: The Tax Code: Class Warfare (interview) People dread taxes. The tax code is a labyrinth few citizens dare to enter save for the rich and powerful who hire lawyers and accountants to figure out ways to game the system. One corporation paid $26,000 a year to m... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/20/12

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Angana Chatterji – Kashmir: Buried Evidence (interview) Among the many issues plaguing South Asia none is as violent and deeply contested as Kashmir. The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/13/12

Airs at: Tue, 03/13/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky – Unconventional Wisdom, Part Two (interview) Conventional wisdom is a term one often hears. It is the generally accepted belief, opinion, or judgment, about a particular matter. In the U.S., the ruling political class and the media are major propagators of ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/06/12

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky – Unconventional Wisdom, Part One (interview) Conventional wisdom is a term one often hears. It is the generally accepted belief, opinion, or judgment, about a particular matter. In the U.S., the ruling political class and the media are major propagators of c... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/28/12

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Bobby Seale - The Black Panther Party (lecture In the sixties and seventies, the Black Panther Party captured the imagination of millions in the U.S. and around the world with its iconic black power salutes and revolutionary rhetoric. The organization also attracted t... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/21/12

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Beena Sarwar – Pakistan: A Journalist’s View (interview) For the casual observer of international news Pakistan must be enigmatic, bewildering and scary. It’s a “hornet's nest,” declares “The Economist.” Almost from its inception in 1947 Pakistan has been dominated by... Read more