Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red Frann Michel shares reports from TruthDig, Twitter and Al Jazeera America about Hillary Clinton's historical revisionism on Nancy Reagan, AIDS activism, and Honduras.  Read more

Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick interviews Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century" Jan Haaken talks with documentary director on her new movie "Trapped," about attempts to cl... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about Spotlight--the film that won Best Picture at the Oscars. They put a "spotlight" on the film's portrayal of the priest sexual abuse cases of the 1980s and 90s, taking up the parts of that story that were not covered in the film's va... Read more

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Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick interviews John Foran about the danger of climate change. Climate change is threatening to make the planet uninhabitable, but the response by U.S. elites has been feeble. Why, and What can be... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode, with segments on ecosocialist responses to capitalist-caused climate change, the mystery of US power in Palestine, the trauma of expecting no-cause eviction and the power of collective defense, and the religious melodrama of fantasy jour... Read more

Joe Clement and Austin Rose are both organizers with Portland Tenants United, a new tenant union. They discuss the eviction crisis, how PTU has already successfully defended someone against an eviction, and ultimately how Right 2 Survive, Portland Tenants United, and Por... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews John Foran about the dangers of climate change and tipping points. Climate change is threatening to make the planet uninhabitable--perhaps quite soon--but the response by U.S. elites has been feeble. Why, and What can be done? They refer listeners... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Kate Raphael about her new novel set in Palestine, titled Murder Under The Bridge: A Palestine Mystery.  For more and to buy the book see  www.kateraphael.com. Read more

The Well-Read Red shares extracts from John Bellamy Foster's Introduction to the March 2016  Monthly Review, a special issue on the Opt-Out movement against standardized testing and for the democratizing of US public schools.  Bellamy Foster highlights the real agenda of... Read more