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Alternative Radio
by CJSW 90.9 FM
Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Our program airs on over 175 radio stations. Our headquarters, with three paid staff, is located in Boulder, Colorado.
Episodes
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Alternative Radio - Episode October 10, 2026
Government Repression of the American Indian Movement The reality of what occurred on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in the 1970s is not reflected in most contemporary histories of the United States. Scores of indigenous people were killed and many more were wounded. Ward Churchill, an activist...
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Alternative Radio - Episode October 3, 2026
Freedom & Equality Freedom and equality are foundations of democratic societies. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the United Nations in 1948, is a milestone document that establishes that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Yet…
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Alternative Radio - Episode September 26, 2026
Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt says lying aids the powerful and leads to public cynicism. She warned that lying by leaders undermines democracy. Truth is an uncontestable fact. Lies are not. Calling things you don’t like a hoax makes it difficult for citizens to cut through the...
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Alternative Radio - Episode September 19, 2026
Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt is one of the most original and influential political thinkers and scholars of this epoch. Her work and her ideas today are as relevant as ever. She wrote about ideology, racism, totalitarianism, imperialism, terror, propaganda, and antisemitism. She...
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Alternative Radio - Episode September 12, 2026
Israel, Genocide & Palestine Genocide has been called “the crime of crimes.” Alas, mass murder is nothing new, but the term genocide is of relatively recent origin. It was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, to describe the Holocaust and the Genocide of the Armenians. The UN passed...
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Alternative Radio - Episode September 5, 2026
Christian Zionism In 1878, William Blackstone published a book titled Jesus Is Coming. The best-selling work popularized the idea held by some Christians that God had given the land of Israel to the Jewish people. In the late 19th and 20th centuries in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere, Christian...
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Alternative Radio - Episode August 29, 2026
International Law & the Case of Gaza The International Criminal Court is an independent judicial body that hears cases on individuals charged with crimes against humanity, starvation, war crimes and genocide. The Genocide Convention, which the U.S. has ratified, defines genocide as “acts…
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Alternative Radio - Episode August 22, 2026
Antisemitism & the Rise of Fascism Antisemitism, hatred of Jews, is centuries old. It exists today. It’s a blight on humankind and must be resisted. However, criticism of Israeli state policies should not be conflated with antisemitism. One should also point out that Islamophobia, hatred of...
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Alternative Radio - Episode August 15, 2026
A World of Empire From the ancient world to modern times, tyrants had dreams of empire and they would realize those dreams through conquest. The purpose of empire is to expropriate the land, labor, raw materials and markets for the imperial hegemon. Language is a factor. Euphemisms like freedom,...
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Alternative Radio - Episode August 8, 2026
The Nuclear Legacy of Artificial Intelligence We hear from many quarters that “AI will destroy the world,” but everyone’s got a different scenario for what that means. The most sensational perspectives come from theorists like Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “godfather of AI” or industrialists…
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Alternative Radio - Episode August 1, 2026
Targeting Venezuela For sheer brazenness, the January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, ranks near the top in the long history of U.S. interventions in Latin America. They were taken to New York and jailed to await trial in June 2027....
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Alternative Radio - Episode July 25, 2026
Militarism, Empire & the Decline of Democracy In ruling circles and in the media, it’s all fine and dandy to talk about Rome and British, French and Soviet empires, but it’s impolite to talk about the United States as an empire. If you do, you’ll be ridiculed and labeled a loony Marxist. But it’s...
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Alternative Radio - Episode July 18, 2026
International Law & the Case of Gaza The International Criminal Court is an independent judicial body that hears cases on individuals charged with crimes against humanity, starvation, war crimes and genocide. The Genocide Convention, which the U.S. has ratified, defines genocide as “acts…
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Alternative Radio - Episode July 11, 2026
Propaganda: Laundering Narratives Many people, when they hear the word propaganda, immediately associate it with Nazi Germany and torchlight parades or Putin reviewing the troops in Red Square. But propaganda has Roman Catholic church origins going as far back as 1622, when Pope Gregory issued a...
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Alternative Radio - Episode July 4, 2026
Origins of U.S. Imperialism One way to understand how the U.S. operates around the world is the Godfather model. Obey the Don and you’ll be well rewarded. Cross him up and it’s lights out. The U.S. maintains its global power out of the barrel of a gun. Of course, for rhetorical purposes…
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Alternative Radio - Podcast June 27, 2026
A People’s History of the American Revolution On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men in Philadelphia signed the Declaration of Independence. Today, the day is marked by store sales, fireworks, and parades. The much-revered Founding Fathers were mostly wealthy merchants and large land and slave owners....
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Alternative Radio - Episode June 20, 2026
The International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court, the ICC, is based in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 2002 under the Rome Statute, the ICC is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the crimes of genocide, crimes...
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Alternative Radio - Episode June 13, 2026
Taimur Rahman – Antonio Gramsci: The Imprisoned Philosopher Antonio Gramsci of Italy was one of the most important and original political and philosophical figures of the 20th century. He was a staunch antifascist and was jailed for years in Mussolini’s prisons. He wrote with great insight about...
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Alternative Radio - Episode June 6, 2026
Deep Caring for the Earth The challenges humankind faces from the climate emergency to species extinction to terminal war may be difficult to comprehend, but we ignore them at our peril. Looking away is a lot easier than facing reality. Viewing the Earth as a giant shopping mall to be exploited…
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Alternative Radio - Episode May 30, 2026
Learning from China The geopolitical checkerboard has seen, in recent years, a major shift. China, once a poor and ravaged country, is now challenging the U.S. for supremacy, and Washington doesn’t like it. The Pentagon is flexing its muscle. The U.S. military budget is over a trillion dollars…
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Alternative Radio - Episode May 23, 2026
Just & Unjust Wars From ancient Athens to 21st-century America, the rhetoric is the same. When “the dogs of war” are set loose, there is a cascade of jingoistic platitudes and cliches. We want peace. When we fight a war, it is just. We are good. The enemy is evil. We are victims seeking justice.…
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Alternative Radio - Episode May 16, 2026
Propaganda: Laundering Narratives Many people, when they hear the word propaganda, immediately associate it with Nazi Germany and torchlight parades or Putin reviewing the troops in Red Square. But propaganda has Roman Catholic church origins going as far back as 1622, when Pope Gregory issued a...
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Alternative Radio - Episode May 9, 2026
A 100th Birthday Garland for Allen Ginsberg Political activist Abbie Hoffman, speaking at the Jack Kerouac Festival in 1982, said that the social movements of the 1960s would not have happened without the cultural revolution of the 1950s. Poet Allen Ginsberg was the spokesman for the Beat...
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Alternative Radio - Episode May 2, 2026
AI & the Crisis of Capitalism AI, artificial intelligence, is rapidly expanding along with its promises and dangers. On the promises side, tech bros like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, thanks to AI, “We will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate.” AI critics such as Geoffrey Hinton, a…
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Alternative Radio - Podcast April 25, 2026
How Fascism Works What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian, says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the…
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Alternative Radio - Episode April 18, 2026
The U.S. War on Iran: Origins & Consequences On February 28th, Israel attacked Iran. Almost immediately, the U.S. joined the fray. The claims against Iran are eerily similar to those made against Iraq in 2003. Remember back then, Baghdad supposedly was a great danger. Today, it is Iran we are to...
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Alternative Radio - Episode April 11, 2026
Savagery at Home & Abroad A new world order is emerging that is dangerously more wicked and destructive. Led by the United States, it is marked by savagery at home and abroad. The old order has collapsed, buried under the weight of its contradictions, mendacities and hypocrisies. The so-called...
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Alternative Radio - Episode April 4, 2026
How Hitler Happened The post-WW1 Weimar Republic in Germany was the height of European civilization. Its scientists and scholars led the world. Its Bauhaus architecture was the rage. Its arts featured such luminaries as Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Thomas Mann. Yet, out of this…
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Alternative Radio - Podcast March 28, 2026
The Sword & The Dollar Historian Chalmers Johnson wrote: “As distinct from other peoples on this earth, most Americans do not recognize that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, they are often ignorant of the fact that their government…
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Alternative Radio - Episode March 21, 2026
The Trump, Putin & Epstein Triangle The movie Nuremberg is about the trial of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering. One of the characters asks rhetorically about the German atrocities: “You wanna know why it happened here?” He answers his own question: “Cause people let it happen. Cause they didn’t...
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Alternative Radio - Episode March 14, 2026
Colonialism, Capitalism & Fascism The era of traditional colonialism, with a few exceptions, is over. But it continues in new shapes and forms to have a profound influence on former colonies all over the world. We are in the age of what may be called neo-colonialism, where former colonies are...
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Alternative Radio - Podcast March 7, 2026
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience As Jesse Jackson advised: “When we act out of fear, rather than hope, we get bitter, rather than better.” Nonviolent Civil Disobedience gives us hope. At a time when people protesting are taking to the streets in greater and greater numbers, civil disobedience is an...
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Alternative Radio - Episode February 28, 2026
How Trump Happened How Trump happened is a question a lot of people ask. From an aggressive foreign policy to an immigration crackdown to cutting Medicaid to tax breaks for the super-rich to undermining environmental regulations and much more. Where did these policies originate? A good place to...
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Alternative Radio - Episode February 21, 2026
Keeping Hope Alive: A Vision of a Better America For the first time since the Great Depression, most Americans do not believe that their children will be better off than they are. Jesse Jackson thinks the country’s slide can be halted and reversed. In this inspiring presentation, he offers a...
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Alternative Radio - Episode February 14, 2026
Deep Caring for the Earth The challenges humankind faces from the climate emergency to species extinction to terminal war may be difficult to comprehend, but we ignore them at our peril. Looking away is a lot easier than facing reality. Viewing the Earth as a giant shopping mall to be exploited…
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Alternative Radio - Episode February 7, 2026
The South, Slavery & the Lost Cause The Lost Cause is rooted in the South’s search for justification and the need to find a substitute for victory in the Civil War. In attempting to deal with defeat, the South created an image of the war as a noble epic fought by brave men. The war, the mythology...
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Alternative Radio - Episode January 31, 2026
Capitalism Discussions about democracy probably started in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is that society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. Democracy is located within the capitalist economic system, infamous for producing...
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Alternative Radio - Episode January 24, 2026
The Historical Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Israel claims that there is no need for explanations as to why Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023. Historian Ilan Pappé challenges that point of view. He says that without historical contextualization, the issues are not only...
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Alternative Radio - Episode January 10, 2026
The Nuclear Legacy of Artificial Intelligence We hear from many quarters that “AI will destroy the world,” but everyone’s got a different scenario for what that means. The most sensational perspectives come from theorists like Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “godfather of AI” or industrialists…
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Alternative Radio - Episode January 17, 2026
Beyond Vietnam Martin Luther King Jr.’s charismatic “I Have a Dream” speech is emblazoned in our historical memories. But another address to a much smaller audience on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York is no less significant. There King demonstrated his deep understanding of how the...
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Alternative Radio - Episode January 3, 2026
Resistance In a time when scoundrels abound and corruption is rife, the need for resistance is critical. This is no time for fence-sitting and twiddling thumbs. Throughout history, people have fought and defeated autocracy by organizing with allies to challenge, disrupt, and roll back unfair…
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Alternative Radio - Podcast December 31, 2025
Genocide & Settler Colonialism Genocide is the most heinous of crimes and it connects to settler colonialism. Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says, “Settler colonialism requires genocidal violence to attain its goal” of acquiring land. In North America and elsewhere this meant the Indigenous...
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Alternative Radio - Episode December 24, 2025
An Indigenous Peoples’ History The history of the U.S. is one of settler colonialism. The state was established on the basis of white male supremacy, slavery, land theft and genocide. “From sea to shining sea” the Native nations were decimated and dispossessed. The survivors herded into...
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Alternative Radio - Episode December 17, 2025
Gunboat Diplomacy: Then & Now The United States has a long history of intervening in the internal affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries. From Cuba to Chile, from Grenada to Panama, the U.S. has invaded, occupied, staged coups, carried out assassinations, and imposed sanctions. Today,...
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Alternative Radio - Episode December 10, 2025
Manufacturing Consent 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, sometimes subtle, sometimes crude, propaganda. The...
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Alternative Radio - Episode December 3, 2025
Community & Resistance in Florida In a world increasingly shaped by far-right policies, corporate greed, and growing authoritarianism, it makes sense to feel afraid about what the future may hold. Building strong relationships with our friends, families, and neighbors provides a foundation for...
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Alternative Radio - Episode November 26, 2025
The Future of Humanity We are at a dangerous moment in human history. Philosopher and thinker David Korten says, “We stand at a crossroads between two possible futures. In one future, we continue on the path of separation and likely bring the human chapter of creation’s journey to an untimely…
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Alternative Radio - Episode November 19, 2025
Health Care in America The United States today has the dubious distinction of being the only major country not to guarantee health care for its population. Some 85 million Americans are uninsured, half a million go bankrupt every year because of medically related debt and we have one of the…
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Alternative Radio - Episode November 12, 2025
Media Framing of Cultural Destruction: Artsakh & Gaza Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a historic Armenian area located in the Caucasus Mountains. In 2023, Azerbaijan invaded and ethnically cleansed the millennial-old Armenian population. The so-called civilized West looked the other...
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Alternative Radio - Episode November 5, 2025
The War on Education The right-wing war on education is well-documented. The battleground extends from elementary and middle school all the way up to Harvard and Columbia. Books have been cut from curricula and pulled from school library shelves. Teachers have been fired. Schools that teach...
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Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Our program airs on over 175 radio stations. Our headquarters, with three paid staff, is located in Boulder, Colorado.
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