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Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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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 03/19/13

Airs at: Tue, 03/19/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Christopher de Bellaigue on "Iran: Coups, Sanctions & Threat of WarChristopher de Bellaigue is an independent journalist. His articles appear in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Independent, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of Rebel Land: Among T... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/12/13

Airs at: Tue, 03/12/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Howard Zinn - Against War (lecture) If an honest history is ever written of the U.S. war on Iraq it may not be believed. It's ten years since Washington launched its shock and awe attack on Iraq. Remember: weapons of mass destruction, axis of evil, mobile chemical labs, ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 03/05/13

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
David Cobb, a lawyer and activist, was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2004. He is a leading voice in the Move to Amend the Constitution to repeal corporate rights.Concerned about the influence of money in politics? You should be. Politics looks more and more l... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/26/13

Airs at: Tue, 02/26/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Jane Rhodes is Professor and Chair of American Studies and Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Macalester College. She has written a number of articles on race, journalism and mass communication. She is the author of "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Prot... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/19/13

Airs at: Tue, 02/19/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Noam Chomsky, legendary MIT professor, has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for more than 40 years. Edward Said called him, “one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/12/13

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Amiri Baraka - Real Politics, Real Poetry (lecture) Amiri Baraka rose to fame in the 1960s as LeRoi Jones. His 1964 off-Broadway play, "Dutchman" created a sensation. Later he became Amiri Baraka and was a central figure in the Black Arts movement. He is an award... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/05/13

Airs at: Tue, 02/05/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Julianne Malveaux speaks on Economic Justice: Dr. King's Legacy (lecture) The conventional media image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has him frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 giving his inspirational "I Have a Dream" speech. Little attention is pai... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/29/13

Airs at: Tue, 01/29/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chuck Collins speaks on "Income Inequality" Chuck Collins is co-director of United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based national organization which addresses issues of economic inequality. Income inequality has soared to the highest levels since the Great Depression. And the... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/22/13

Airs at: Tue, 01/22/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
 Professor Richard Wolff speaks on "Democracy at Work"  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. He is the author of numerous books on economics includ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/15/13

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
David Suzuki - The Nature of Things (interview) Host David Barsamian interviews David Suzuki leading scientist, broadcaster, writer, and environmental activist. He is best known as host of the long-running CBC TV series, "The Nature of Things" seen in syndication in over... Read more