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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 03/29/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Beyond Vietnam (lecture) Every year, almost like clockwork around his birthday, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" gets airplay. The charismatic orator is frozen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. No doubt it was a great a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/22/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/22/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Parvaiz Bukhari on "Dateline: Kashmir" (interview) Host David Barsamian speaks with Parvaiz Bukhari, an independent journalist reporting from Indian-controlled Kashmir. His articles appear in major South Asian newspapers, journals and magazines as well as "The Nation." Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/15/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Arundhati Roy: Revolts & Rebellions (interview) Beyond the hoopla of robust growth rates and hype about the world’s largest democracy, India is beset by major revolts and rebellions over a vast area. Some, like the one in Kashmir, are for independence. Others, like the mult... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/01/11

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2011 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 uni... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/22/11

Airs at: Tue, 02/22/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
We have a schedule change for Alternative Radio today. The previously scheduled talk by Chris Hedges on "The Death of the Liberal Class" will be heard next Tuesday (March 1st) at 9AM.  We apologize for the error in our schedule. Today's speaker is Ilan Pappe, professor of h... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/15/11

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Wendell Potter - Whistleblowing: Health Insurance (lecture) Whistleblowers perform valuable societal functions as they reveal information of crimes, corruption, and lying. Daniel Ellsberg was a noteworthy example of whistleblowing when, in 1971, he leaked the Pentagon P... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/08/11

Airs at: Tue, 02/08/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Reese Erlich - Terrorism & the Media (lecture) The use of the word terrorism by politicians and the corporate media is highly refined and selective. September 11 is the event that defines the term. Acts of violence by designated enemies are without exception categorized as ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/01/11

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Williams on "Ecology and Socialism" Chris Williams is the author of "Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis." Williams says there is still time to save humanity and the planet, but only by building social movements for environmental justic... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/25/11

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Amiri Baraka - Resistance & the Arts (lecture) From Allen Ginsberg to Kurt Vonnegut and from Bob Dylan to Michael Franti artists have been on the cutting edge. The arts play a pivotal role in society. The great historian Howard Zinn said: “Whenever I become discouraged ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/18/11

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Veteran journalist Robert Scheer speaks on "The Roots of the Economic Collapse." Robert Scheer is the editor in chief of Truthdig. He has spent 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam corresponde... Read more