Glenn Greenwald – The Surveillance State June 19, 2013 | 9:00 am

The June 2013 revelations of massive government spying should not really come as a surprise. Since Sept 11 there has been a steady drift to more and more state power, secrecy and totalitarianism all in the name of national security. Snooping, prying, eavesdropping, call it what you want the government is doing it on a scale never before seen. Sophisticated new technologies allow for more intrusions into our private lives. Beyond the ever present cameras, there is deep data-mining, nano-second biometric identification and drone aircraft in the skies above. The invasive monitoring of public space and the simultaneous erosion of our rights has been largely a bi-partisan affair. State surveillance power, undermining basic freedoms in the name of protecting them, is growing relentlessly. The swelling domestic databases of the NSA probably contain your personal information including emails, text messages, and phone calls. And this burgeoning Orwellian apparatus has become a cash cow for corporations such as Booz Allen Hamilton. Comedian Stephen Colbert sarcastically observes, There are bound to be casualties in the never-ending war on terror and one of them just happens to be the U.S. Constitution.
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Noam Chomsky – Magna Carta: Then & Now June 12, 2013 | 9:00 am

Noam Chomsky, legendary MIT professor, practically invented modern linguistics. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. Edward Said said of him, "Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism." The New Statesman describes him as, "The conscience of the American people." He is the author of scores of books, including Hopes & Prospects, Occupy, How The World Works, and Power Systems with David Barsamian.
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Ramin Jahanbegloo – Gandhi, Nonviolence & Iran June 5, 2013 | 9:00 am

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian political philosopher. He was arrested and imprisoned by Iranian authorities in 2006. He was released after much international pressure. He is professor and Noor-York Chair in Islamic Studies at York University. He is the author of The Clash of Intolerances, Democracy in Iran and The Gandhian Moment. amin
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Jeremy Scahill – License to Kill (lecture) May 29, 2013 | 9:00 am

Drones represent a new era in warfare. They are the White House-Pentagon-CIA weapon of choice. Clean 21st century death from above. No body bags. No weeping mothers. At least not in the homeland. The President decides who lives and who dies. It's a dangerous world. Enemies are lurking everywhere. Let's get them before they get us. Georgetown Law Professor Rosa Brooks, among others, are ringing alarm bells. She told a Senate committee, "Right now we have the executive branch making a claim that it has the right to kill anyone anywhere on earth at any time for secret reasons based on secret evidence in a secret process undertaken by unidentified officials. That's not the rule of law. That frightens me." As Bob Dylan tells us in License to Kill: "Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please, And if things don't change soon, he will."
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Reimagining the World May 22, 2013 | 9:00 am

In India, the U.S. and other countries the actual functioning of democracy has largely been hollowed out. Yes, there are elections and people vote but the nexus of decision-making power lies elsewhere. Corporations dominate the political process.
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Barbara Ehrenreich – Kicking People When They’re Down May 15, 2013 | 9:00 am

Barbara Ehrenreich is a social critic, journalist, and activist. She received a PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University. In the 1970's, she was involved with the nascent women's health movement. After publishing an article in Ms magazine, she became a regular columnist there and with Mother Jones. She is the author of numerous books including such bestsellers as Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, This Land is Their Land and Bright-Sided. In 2012 she founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a website designed to place the crisis of poverty and economic insecurity at the center of the national political conversation.
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Corporations, Communities and the Environment May 8, 2013 | 9:00 am

Communities across the country, trying to stop a wide range of threats and unwanted projects such as gas drilling and fracking, mining, pipelines, factory farming, sewage sludging, landfills, coal shipments and GMOs, all run into the same problem: they don't have the legal authority to say "no" to them.
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Medical Marijuana April 24, 2013 | 9:00 am

Martin Lee is co-founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the New York-based media watch group. An award-winning journalist, he has investigated the CIA and its drug experiments. His classic book on the topic is Acid Dreams. He is also the author of The Beast Reawakens and Smoke Signals. He is director of Project CBD and a contributing editor of O’Shaughnessy’s.
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A Radical Environmental Paradigm April 16, 2013 | 9:00 am

David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is a leading environmentalist and science educator. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He is the host of the long-running CBC-TV program “The Nature of Things.” He is the author of more than fifty books, including “The Sacred Balance” and “Everything Under the Sun.”
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Dennis Kucinich: War and Peace April 10, 2013 | 9:00 am

This week's edition of Alternative Radio is a lecture by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), his first major address since leaving Capitol Hill, and titled 'War and Peace'.
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Sandra Steingraber: Fracking and Public Health April 3, 2013 | 9:00 am

Fracking doesn't sound like something the earth, or any community, or any language would wish upon itself. What is it exactly?
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India & Kashmir: Breaking the Silence March 27, 2013 | 9:00 am

Pankaj Mishra writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian. He is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, An End to Suffering, Temptations of the West and From the Ruins of Empire. He has spent much time in Kashmir and has written about it.
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Iran: Coups, Sanctions & the Threat of War March 20, 2013 | 9:00 am

Christopher de Bellaigue is an independent journalist. His articles appear in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Independent, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten People, The Struggle for Iran, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, and Patriot of Persia.
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Against War March 13, 2013 | 9:00 am

Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, was perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were constantly moving to stay, as he once told me," one step ahead of the landlord." After high school, he went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During World War II, he saw combat duty as an air force bombardier. After the war, he went to Columbia University on the GI Bill. He taught at Spelman, the all black women's college in Atlanta. He was an active figure in the civil rights movement and served on the board of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was fired by Spelman for his activism. He was among the first to oppose U.S. aggression in Indochina. His book "Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal" was an instant classic. A principled opponent of imperialism and militarism, he was an advocate of non-violent civil disobedience. He spoke and marched against the U.S. wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. His masterpiece, "A People's History of the United States," continues to sell in huge numbers. Among his many books are "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress" and "Original Zinn." Just before his death he completed his last great project, the documentary "The People Speak." Always ready to lend a hand, he believed in and practiced solidarity. Witty, erudite, generous and loved, Howard Zinn, friend and teacher, passed away on January 27, 2010. His words inspire many the world over, "We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
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Corporate Coup d’Etat March 6, 2013 | 9:00 am

Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org and is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” “American Fascists,” “Empire of Illusion,” “Death of the Liberal Class,” “The World As It Is,” and with Joe Sacco, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.”
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Framing the Black Panthers February 27, 2013 | 9:00 am

Jane Rhodes is Professor and Chair of American Studies and Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Macalester College. She has written a number of articles on race, journalism and mass communication. She is the author of “Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century” and “Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power
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The Threat of Democracy February 20, 2013 | 9:00 am

Noam Chomsky, legendary MIT professor, has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for more than 40 years. Edward Said called him, “one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.” He is the author of scores of books, including How The World Works and Power Systems, both with David Barsamian.
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Amiri Baraka – Real Politics, Real Poetry February 13, 2013 | 9:00 am

Amiri Baraka rose to fame in the 1960s as LeRoi Jones. His 1964 off-Broadway play, "Dutchman" created a sensation. Later he became Amiri Baraka and was a central figure in the Black Arts movement. He is an award-winning playwright and poet and recipient of the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of many books including "Home" and "Digging."
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Dr. King’s Legacy February 6, 2013 | 9:00 am

Julianne Malveaux is an economist and political commentator. Her articles appear in leading newspapers and magazines. She has taught and lectured at major colleges and universities. She is the author of "Sex, Lies and Stereotypes," "Wall Street, Main Street and the Side Street," and "Surviving and Thriving."
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Income Inequality January 30, 2013 | 9:00 am

Chuck Collins is co-founder of United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based national organization which addresses issue of economic inequality. He is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs its Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is author of “Economic Apartheid in America,” “Wealth and Our Commonwealth” and “99 to 1.”
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Democracy at Work January 23, 2013 | 9:00 am

Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a visiting professor at the New School in New York. He is the author of numerous books on economics including “Capitalism Hits the Fan.”
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The Nature of Things January 16, 2013 | 9:00 am

David Suzuki is a leading scientist, broadcaster, writer, and environmental activist. He is best known as host of the long-running CBC TV series, "The Nature of Things" seen in syndication in over forty countries. Author of many books, his latest is "The Big Picture." He was awarded Canada's highest civilian honor for his work.
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Climate Cliff January 9, 2013 | 9:00 am

Bill McKibben was one of the first to sound 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 on the environment. His other books include "The Age of Missing Information" and "Hope, Human and Wild," "Deep Economy," and "Eaarth." He is co-founder of 350.org.
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The Surveillance State January 2, 2013 | 9:00 am

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer and the author of How Would a Patriot Act? and Great American Hypocrites. He is the recipient of the Izzy Award from the Park Center for Independent Media for his "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception, and controversial issues." He also received an Online Journalism Award for Best Commentary for his coverage of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning. Greenwald is a columnist and blogger at The Guardian and his articles appear in various newspapers and magazines.
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Islamophobia December 26, 2012 | 9:00 am

Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of “Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike” and “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.” She appears on numerous media outlets around the world.
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Masters of Mankind with Noam Chomsky December 19, 2012 | 9:00 am

Noam Chomsky, legendary MIT professor, has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for more than 40 years. Edward Said called him, “one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.” He is the author of scores of books, including “Hopes & Prospects” and “How The World Works.”
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Inside Syria December 12, 2012 | 9:00 am

Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of “Business Networks in Syria.” He is Founding Editor of the “Arab Studies Journal” and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, “About Baghdad” and director of a critically acclaimed film series on “Arabs and Terrorism.” He is also on the Editorial Committee of “Middle East Report” and is Co-Founder/Editor of “Jadaliyya” ezine
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Beyond Capitalism December 5, 2012 | 9:00 am

Gar Alperovitz is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of numerous books, including “Making a Place For Community,” and “America Beyond Capitalism.”
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Knowing Who You Are: Lessons from Native America November 28, 2012 | 9:00 am

Russell Means, an Oglala Lakota and a prominent voice in the struggle for indigenous rights, was the first national director of the American Indian Movement. Under his leadership the organization occupied national and international attention. He passed away in South Dakota on October 22, 2012. He is the author of "Where White Men Fear to Tread" and his latest book with Bayard Johnson is "If You've Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You've Lost Your Way."
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Incarceration Nation November 21, 2012 | 9:00 am

Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in Northern California, she served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. She is the author of the bestseller “The New Jim Crow.”
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Sea to Shining Sea: The Water Crisis November 14, 2012 | 9:00 am

Speaker Peter Neill
Recorded in Blue Hill, ME on July 31, 2012.
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Plenitude: The Emerging New Economy November 7, 2012 | 9:00 am

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard in the Department of Economics. She is author of many books including “The Overworked American,” “Do Americans Shop Too Much?” and “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.”
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The Unleashed Monster October 31, 2012 | 9:00 am

The Beast has been unleashed. Like Frankenstein's Monster, it''s broken its chains, and thinks its a real person
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The Age of Inequality October 24, 2012 | 9:00 am

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia, is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics. He was chair of the Council on Economic Advisors under Clinton. He also served as senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. His efforts to move the bank in a more progressive direction got him fired. He is the author of "Globalization and Its Discontents" and "The Roaring Nineties."
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story October 17, 2012 | 9:00 am

Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of “The God of Small Things” and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. “The New York Times” calls her, "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence." She is the recipient of the Lannan Award for Cultural Freedom. She’s the author of many books including “The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile,” “Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers,” and “Walking with the Comrades.”
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Beyond Occupy With Arun Gupta October 10, 2012 | 9:00 am

Arun Gupta, journalist and activist, was founding editor of The Indypendent newspaper in New York. He's a regular contributor to Alternet and Z.
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From Black Power to the New Jim Crow October 3, 2012 | 9:00 am

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is active in local housing struggles in Chicago and is an organizer with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. Her articles appear in “CounterPunch,” “The Black Commentator,” “Black Agenda Report” and “New Politics.” She is on the editorial board of the “International Socialist Review” and a columnist for Socialist Worker.org. She is the author of “Rats, Riots and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s.”
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Drone Warfare September 26, 2012 | 9:00 am

Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK. She frequently travels to and documents human rights violations in the Third World. She has lectured and written extensively on international issues and has been to Afghanistan a number of times.
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The Surveillance State – Glenn Greenwald September 19, 2012 | 9:00 am

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer and the author of How Would a Patriot Act? and Great American Hypocrites. He is the recipient of the Izzy Award from the Park Center for Independent Media for his "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception, and controversial issues." He also received an Online Journalism Award for Best Commentary for his coverage of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning. Greenwald is a columnist and blogger at Salon.com and his articles appear in various newspapers and magazines.
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Education: Separate and Unequal September 12, 2012 | 9:00 am

Brian Jones is a public school teacher in New York. He is also an actor and activist. He co-narrated the film,"The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" and contributed to the book, "Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation." For more than a decade he has been performing to great acclaim Howard Zinn's one-man play "Marx in Soho."
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Howard Zinn on Emma Goldman, Anarchism & War Resistance August 22, 2012 | 9:00 am

Emma Goldman is largely an unknown figure today. She deserves wider recognition. She was born in Lithuania and died in 1940. She spent many years as an organizer in the United States. She was a major anarchist thinker and activist as well as a passionate advocate for women's rights. Anarchism today is mostly viewed negatively. It's seen as a synonym for disorder and chaos. Few recognize it as a political philosophy rooted in the ideals of the Enlightenment. Noam Chomsky calls it "the libertarian wing of socialism." Anarchism not only opposes the institutions of state coercion and violence, it questions the very legitimacy of the state. Howard Zinn gave this talk on Emma and Anarchism a decade ago in Caimbridge, Massachusetts
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Gore Vidal – The Fall of the United States August 15, 2012 | 9:00 am

Gore Vidal, over six decades, was a singular figure in the United States. Coming from a background of privilege and power, he nevertheless challenged many of the prevailing notions about Washington's intentions and actions domestically and internationally. He was a student of history and incorporated his vast knowledge into a series of bestselling novels as well as political books. He coined the phrase USA, "the United States of Amnesia." He was deeply troubled by the erosion of democracy and civil liberties at home and the expansion of American imperialism around the world. He saw the two joined at the hip. He was, as they say in cricket, an all arounder, someone who could play many positions with equal skill. He loved the arts, theater, and film and wrote plays and screenplays as well as acted in some. He died on July 31, 2012.
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Visions of the Environmental Movement August 8, 2012 | 9:00 am

David Brower, the legendary environmentalist, died on November 5, 2000. His numerous achievements, over many decades, in defense of the environment are virtually unmatched. He was founder and chair of Earth Island Institute. He served as the Sierra Club's first executive director and later went on to establish Friends of the Earth and the League for Conservation Voters. He received the UN's Lifetime Achievement Award and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Recorded in Boulder, CO on February 05, 1993.
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David Cobb – A Declaration to Amend July 25, 2012 | 9:00 am

David Cobb, a lawyer and activist, was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2004. He is a leading voice in the Move to Amend the Constitution to repeal corporate rights.
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Gimme Shelter: The Housing Crisis July 18, 2012 | 9:00 am

Max Rameau is a community organizer. He is Executive Director of Movement Catalyst. He helped establish Take Back the Land which organizes resistance to foreclosures and assists families to stay in their homes. He works on a broad range of issues impacting the poor such as housing, immigrant rights, economic justice, and Cop Watch.
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What’s Going on in Canada? May 1, 2013 | 9:00 am

Yves Engler has been called “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” and “in the mould of I.F. Stone.” He is the author of many books including Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Canada Israel: Building Apartheid and The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy.
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