Alternative Radio

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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 06/19/12

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Cornel West – Occupy Democracy (lecture) When language has been mutilated and drained of meaning how are we to understand democracy? Its mere invocation by politicians and their media echoers generates a chorus of hosannas. The reality is different. Democracy has been reduc... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/12/12

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Williams – Ecology & Socialism (lecture) Fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring.” It gave birth to the environmental movement. Within a few years there was Earth Day, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Environmental ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 06/05/12

Airs at: Tue, 06/05/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth (lecture) There is almost a mystical belief in growth. Nature’s bounty was there to be exploited by man. There is endless palaver about growth as an economic panacea that will cure all ills. Economists have long postulated that growth is... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/29/12

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Peter Balakian – Genocide & Modernity (lecture) Stalin, once cynically remarked, If you kill one person it is a tragedy, but if you kill a million, it is a statistic. It is difficult to comprehend large-scale horror. The crime of genocide in some ways has defined modern ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/22/12

Airs at: Tue, 05/22/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Canada’s Mordor  (interview) Mordor is the realm of the evil Sauron in “The Lord of the Rings.” Tolkien describes it as “a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." If you look at Canada... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/15/12

Airs at: Tue, 05/15/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Michael Shuman speaks on Local Dollars, Local Sense. His newest book is "Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity--A Resilient Communities Guide" (from Chelsea Green.) Michael Shuman is director of res... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/08/12

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
William Black - Banks, Fraud & Looting (lecture) Bankers brought the world's economy to the brink of collapse and then as the Occupy slogan says, “We got sold out, they got bailed out.” In many ways Goldman Sachs, one of the largest and most important investment banks, ep... Read more

Alternative Radio on 05/01/12

Airs at: Tue, 05/01/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Michael Moore – Get Up, Stand Up (lecture) Bob Marley sang this song, Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight You can fool some people sometimes But you couldn't fool all the people all the time And now you see the light, stand up f... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/24/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/24/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Gar Alperovitz – A New Economic Paradigm (interview) When something doesn’t work you either get it fixed or replace it. Makes sense right? Take capitalism. It careens from crisis to crisis. It has systemic structural problems. The traditional remedies, such as legislative r... Read more

Alternative Radio on 04/17/12

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Thomas Frank – Ideology Over Reality (lecture) Ideology is a set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political and economic system. It can evolve in strange ways to the point where evidence and facts are not only irrelevant but are treated with scorn and der... Read more