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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: 
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Alternative Radio - The Never Ending Occupation: Palestine

Airs at: Tue, 11/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Gideon Levy was born and lives in Tel Aviv. He is a columnist and member of the editorial board of Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, where he has covered the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for more than 30 years. The author of The Punishment of ... Read more

Alfred McCoy: The Decline of U.S. Global Power

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  What’s the shelf life of empires? Decades, maybe centuries.  It is difficult to discuss imperialism because there is virtually uniform elite opinion that the U.S. is not an empire. Washington will not willingly concede its global superpower position. But remember the ... Read more

Alternative Radio: Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Airs at: Tue, 11/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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  Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a leading voice for recognizing bias and  resisting cultural appropriation. She was born in Sudan and grew up in Australia where she trained as a mechanical engineer. She now works as an engineering specialist on oil and gas rigs as well as hea... Read more

David Harvey: The End of Capitalism

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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  David Harvey is one of the foremost experts on Capitalism. Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Conditi... Read more

Ralph Nader – Sovereignty of the People

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Ralph Nader has spent a lifetime fighting on behalf of ordinary people. Lifemagazine ranks him as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Founder of Public Citizen, he is a long-time advocate for consumer safety and workers' rights. He rose to ... Read more

Bobby Seale on The Black Panther Party

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Bobby Seale, along with Huey P. Newton, started the Black Panther Party. He was the organization's first chairman. October 2016 marks the founding of the Black Panther Party which captured the imagination of millions in the U.S. and around the world in the sixties and ... Read more

Noam Chomsky - Elections & Voting

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato and Freud. The legendary MIT professor practically invented modern linguistic... Read more

David Daley – Gerrymandering: Tilting Elections

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Gerrymandering. The word was coined after the redrawing of election districts by Governor Gerry in Massachusetts in 1812. He signed a bill that benefited his party. One of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander. How d... Read more

Ari Rabin Havt – Liars, Lying & Politics

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Ari Rabin-Havt is host of The Agenda, a national radio show on SiriusXM. His articles appear in USA Today, The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, and The American Prospect. He co-authored The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine and Lie... Read more

Dave Zirin – Racism, Resistance & Black Athletes

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Dave Zirin is sports editor for The Nation magazine and host ofEdge of Sports Podcast. He is the author of many books includingThe John Carlos Story, What’s My Name, Fool?, A People’s History of Sports in the United States, Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sport... Read more