All Programs — Page 150 of 166 — Alternative Radio

Money or Life?
David Korten
“They strutted up and down the avenue, throwing out their chests and bidding the world stand to one side. They were 100 percent American big businessmen who took back talk from nobody. Now they take a handout wherever they can get it. Billions will be ladled into the mouths of these very individualistic big businessmen […]
Climate Change: Tipping Point
Bill McKibben
Glaciers are retreating at a rapid rate. Within just a few years there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro. Glaciers in the Andes, the Rockies, and the Himalayas are all shrinking. The polar ice shelves are fracturing. Sea level is rising. The permafrost is melting. Millions of people worldwide are at risk. A major […]
The Hypocrisies of Capitalism
Michael Parenti
Newsweek’s cover declares, “We are All Socialists Now.” Some people have a different take on it. Paul Krugman, commenting on the bailout of banks and the giant insurance company AIG, says it’s a classic example of what he calls “lemon socialism,” that is, taxpayers bear the cost if things go wrong, but stockholders and executives get […]
The Body Toxic
Nena Baker
More than 4 decades ago Rachel Carson, in “Silent Spring,” first warned that man-made chemicals were taking a deadly toll on birds and wildlife. Now we are recognizing that chemicals are effecting human sexual development and reproduction and can cause central nervous system diseases, cancer, and liver disease. Everyone is carrying a dizzying array of […]
Stuffed & Starved
Raj Patel
Stuffed and starved seems like such a paradox. There’s so much food. How can there be hunger and obesity? In supposedly the world’s wealthiest country, tens of millions of Americans are hungry. With the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression those numbers will certainly increase. Issues of race and class are factors linking diet […]
Peak Water
Maude Barlow
In the last few years, the concept of peak oil has gained some traction. But peak water? Hardly at all. That most precious of all resources is in big trouble. We are running out of clean, drinkable water. Aquifers are being depleted at a rate that greatly exceeds their replenishment. Global warming is causing evaporation […]
On Gandhi
Vandana Shiva
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, dubbed the Mahatma, great soul, was born on October 2, 1869. After training as a lawyer in England, Gandhi went to South Africa. It was there his emergent philosophy began to take shape. Returning to India in 1915 he fairly quickly becomes the most prominent leader in the country’s struggle to oust […]
Food System in Danger
Paul Roberts
Parts of our food chain are toxic and dangerous. With increasing frequency in recent years outbreaks of food-borne bacteria have resulted in deaths and the sickening of many thousands. Pathogens appear in our beef, chicken, lettuce, peppers, spinach, tomatoes, pistachios and peanuts. What’s next? The industrialized agribusiness model is fraying and is posing more and […]
Human Rights in India: Binayak Sen
Satya Sivaraman
Touted as an emerging superpower and the world’s largest democracy, India is a very complex country with enormous internal problems such as desperate economic inequality, hunger, racism, casteism and religious bigotry. There are pogroms of Christians in Orissa and Muslims in Gujarat. Not surprisingly, the oppressed are fighting back. There is a series of mini-wars […]
Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Robert McChesney
Stop the presses! Breaking News! Journalism is dying! The terms seismic shifts and tectonic plates moving are overused but they certainly apply to journalism today. The venerable fourth estate is an endangered species. Newspapers, like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, which was around for 150 years, have closed. Many others are threatened. Foreign reporting, […]
Banksta Capitalism
Arun Gupta
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,” declares the president. But it seems that’s what going on. Obama’s treasury secretary says, “We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we’d like to continue to do our best to preserve that.” That’s the stated […]
The Work of Hope
Frances Moore Lappe
In times of great stress, the word hope falls off our tongue with more frequency. We hope things will get better. Hope is positive and uplifting. “Rising sun energy” as a great Tibetan teacher once termed it. Emily Dickinson wrote in a poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul.” It is […]

x

Top