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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.



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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
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Arundhati Roy - Reimagining the World

Airs at: Tue, 03/04/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The news item was brief and buried in the back pages: "India: Maoists Ambush Patrol, Killing 7 Soldiers. The attack occurred in a rebel stronghold in Jharkhand State. Thousands of people have been killed in the past decade in violence involving Maoists, who claim they re... Read more

Sonia Nazario on The Courage of Immigrants

Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Emma Lazarus in her poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty wrote: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Bedros, my father might have seen those words in 1914 when he landed at Ellis Island and Araxie, my mother too, seven years l... Read more

David Barsamian on Media, KBOO Radio and the World

Airs at: Tue, 02/18/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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Today we go straight to the source of Alternative Radio as we hear a special talk by Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian. He spoke at a small gathering in Portland in early December. He talked about media consolidation, middle east politics and positive development... Read more

Jules Boykoff on The Olympics: Celebration Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 02/04/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Jules Boykoff - The Olympics: Celebration Capitalism (lecture) The Olympics are perhaps the crown jewels of sports. The pomp and circumstance, the pageantry and international competition make the games special. They began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, Greece. They were ... Read more

Vandana Shiva speaks on Seeds and Freedom

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva - Seeds & Freedom (lecture) What's in a seed? Life itself. Ten thousand years ago, Iraq, Egypt and India were the sites of the earliest sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathered in the wild. It was a revolutionary development and m... Read more

Robert McChesney on The Internet, Capitalism & Democracy

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Remember the information superhighway and all the hype about the Internet? The wonders of the Digital Age would be liberating. A utopian bliss was at hand. Now it sometimes looks more like a dystopia. A handful of monopolies dominate the Internet. Google garners 97% of t... Read more

Sanho Tree - End the Drug War

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Sanho Tree on End the Drug War Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Sanho Tree is director of the Drug Policy Project, which works to end the domestic and international “War on Drugs” and replace it with policies that promote public health and safety, as well as economic ... Read more

Lester Brown on "The Future of Civilization"

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2014 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The Future of Civilization Recorded in Seattle, WA on November 11, 2013. When it comes to climate change the operative word is “hot” with “record” and "unprecedented" closely following. UN conferences on climate do little beyond the powerful issuing grandiose proclamations... Read more

Naomi Klein on The Shock Doctrine

Airs at: Tue, 12/31/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The Shock Doctrine Recorded in Montreal, QC on September 05, 2007. Catastrophes from Katrina to Iraq from Afghanistan to the Asian Tsunami clear the way for corporations to move in and operate in newly privatized zones, pushing local government overboard. Kind of like sho... Read more

Writer Barbara Ehrenreich on "Kicking People When They're Down"

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2013 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 w... Read more