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 12/22/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Stephen Bezruchka – Capitalism & Health (lecture)Stephen Bezruchka teaches at the University of Washington. He worked for many years as an emergency room physician in Seattle. His particular areas of research are population health and societal hierarchy. He is author of n... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/15/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/15/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Helena Norberg-Hodge – Thinking Outside the Box (lecture)Helena Norberg-Hodge, a native of Sweden, is an internationally renowned environmentalist. She is a leading critic of conventional notions of growth and development. She is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Awar... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/08/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/08/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

John Bellamy Foster speaks on "Economy, Ecology & Empire"John Bellamy Foster is editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His writings have focused on political economy, environmental sociol... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/01/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/01/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Howard Zinn Three Holy Wars (lecture)Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, is perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were constantly moving to stay “one step ahead of the landlord.” A... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/24/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Dahr Jamail – GI Resistance (lecture)At Nuremberg the plea of, “I was just following orders” was not accepted by the tribunal. That raises the question: What are soldiers to do when faced with orders they know to be against international law and basic morality? Today, repor... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/17/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Thomas Frank on Conservatism: Making Government Fail (lecture)Thomas Frank is the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and One Market Under God. The founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper’s, he is also The Wall Street Journal’s newest week... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/10/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Norman Solomon – Afghanistan: Endless War (lecture)Operation Enduring Freedom, the name of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan is looking more like Operation Enduring Disaster. “The New York Times” reported, “General McChrystal’s plan is a blueprint for an extensive American c... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/03/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/03/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

What Do Afghans Want?: A Talk by Medea Benjamin Afghanistan is "a war of necessity," Obama tells us. One of the justifications for the invasion was to liberate Afghan women from Taliban oppression. As Arundhati Roy of India commented, "We are being asked to believe the U... Read more

Alternative Radio on 10/27/09

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Michael Pollan speaks on "In Defense of Food"The Time magazine cover story, The Real Cost of Cheap Food, says, "Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us ever since 1906 when Upton Sinclair's landmark novel The Jungle exposed how America produces its me... Read more