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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.

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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
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Alternative Radio on 08/06/13

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The U.S. has the world’s most powerful military machine. Its navy controls the seas, its air force the skies. Almost 70 years after the end of World War Two, its armies occupy bases from Germany and Italy to South Korea and Japan. Its CIA-operated drones attack Pakistan,... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/30/13

Airs at: Tue, 07/30/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
 Fracking doesn't sound like something the earth, or any community, or any language would wish upon itself. What is it exactly? Fracking is a technique that involves the injection of enormous volumes of water and chemicals underground at very high pressure in order to cr... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/23/13

Airs at: Tue, 07/23/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Corporations constitute the most powerful force in society. Their influence has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems, our consciousness and crucially into our politics. Big money buys access to lawmakers. For sheer arrogance perhaps Goldma... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/16/13

Airs at: Tue, 07/16/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff - Democracy at Work (lecture)Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a visiting professor at the New School in New York. The New York Times called him "America's most prominent Marxist eco... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/09/13

Airs at: Tue, 07/09/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project in Northern California, she served as a law clerk for U... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/02/13

Airs at: Tue, 07/02/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert Jensen - A Call to Action Robert Jensen is professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. He is the author of Citizens of the Empire, The Heart of Whiteness, All My Bones Shake: Seek... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/25/13

Airs at: Tue, 06/25/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Sanjay Kak - India: David vs. Goliath (interview)The Biblical story needs no recounting. In parts of India today various Davids confront the goliath of the Indian state and large corporations. The people fighting back are poor, rural and marginalized. Many are Adivasi, i... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/18/13

Airs at: Tue, 06/18/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian, broke the story of Washington's widespread electronic dragnet. His exclusive interview with NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden was an international media sensation. He is a lawyer and the author of How Would ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/11/13

Airs at: Tue, 06/11/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky - Magna Carta: Then & Now (lecture)The Magna Carta is the foundational document of the legal system. It crucially asserted that law is sovereign, not the king. Today, the term rule of law is invoked by whoever is in the White House. But you have to wonder wh... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/04/13

Airs at: Tue, 06/04/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Ramin Jahanbegloo - Gandhi, Nonviolence & Iran (lecture)Born in Gujarat in western India in 1869, Gandhi's life journey was phenomenal by any standard. He went from a suited-booted English trained barrister to the Mahatma, one of the 20th century's most extraordinary fig... Read more