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Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2025 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 09/01/09

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
 Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent (Lecture)The media like to present themselves as objective, balanced and free from any bias or agenda. Reality suggests something quite different. The media function as weapons of mass distraction. Much of what passes as news is, sometim... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/28/09

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
HYPOCRISIES OF CAPITALISM The "Newsweek" cover declares, "We are All Socialists Now." Some people have a different take on it. Paul Krugman, commenting on the bailout of banks and the giant insurance company AIG, says it's a classic example of what he calls "lemon socialism... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/07/09

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Alternative Radio debuts on it's new day!  David Barsamian presents Maude Barlow on Peak Water:   In the last few years, the concept of peak oil has gained some traction. But peak water? Hardly at all. That most precious of all resources is in big trouble. We are running out... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/01/09

Airs at: Wed, 07/01/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva on Gandhi Recorded December 31st, 2008 in New Delhi, India Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, dubbed the Mahatma, great soul, was born on October 2, 1869. After training as a lawyer in England, Gandhi went to South Africa. It was there his emergent philosophy began to... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/24/09

Airs at: Wed, 06/24/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Our planet and its people are in peril. Diminishing fresh water supplies, destruction of forests, polluted air, species extinction at an unparalleled rate, and a toxic petrochemical environment are all clear signals that things are going seriously haywire. And climate chang... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/17/09

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Bill McKibben - Climate Change: Tipping Point (lecture) Bill McKibben was among the first who sounded the alarm on climate change with his bestselling book "The End of Nature." A scholar in residence at Middlebury College, he is a leading activist, journalist and author o... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Ralph Nader - The Politics of Health Care  (lecture) Ralph Nader has spent a lifetime fighting on behalf of ordinary people. He has run for president four times. "Life" magazine ranks him as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Founder of Public C... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/03/09

Airs at: Wed, 06/03/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Paul Roberts - Food System in Danger (lecture) Paul Roberts is a journalist and author. His articles appear in major newspapers and magazines. He's the author of The End of Oil. His latest book is The End of Food. Parts of our food chain are toxic and dangerous. With increas... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/27/09

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Satya Sivaraman - Human Rights in India: Binayak Sen (interview) Satya Sivaraman is an independent journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist based in New Delhi. He is the author of "Asia Sees America and other Rants." Touted as an emerging superpower and the world's l... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/20/09

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert McChesney on "Journalism & the Crisis of Democracy" (lecture) Robert McChesney is co-founder of the Free Press, a non-profit organization working to increase public participation in media policy debates. He is professor of communications at the University of Illinois ... Read more