- 103
- Episodes
- 90
- Transcribed
- 531
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About AlternativeRadio
Alternative Radio is an "unembedded" weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Visit alternativeradio.org for the complete catalog.
- Publisher
- David Barsamian
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
90 of 103 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
[Marli Huijer] Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism
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[Vali Nasr] The U.S. War on Iran: Origins & Consequences
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[Marli Huijer] Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Which events, which stories, which ideologies, which institutions brought forth the catastrophe that struck the Jewish population, but also other populations? What happened? How to understand it? It might be easy to kind of indicate causes and say, well, that's the cause and it's very easy. You can understand it started here and there it ends. But that's not what Hannah Arendt wants. She wants to know what the hidden layers of history are. What are the multitude of factors that contributed to this emergence of totalitarianism? And she uses a specific word to explain that, and that's this crystallizing process. […]
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- John Cassidy
- Vali Nasr
- Jesse Jackson
- Joanna Macy
- Michael Parenti
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 531 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- 66
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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