Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentar... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Hossein-zadeh is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Drake University and an expert on Middle East issues. He describes the legacy of the cold war, when "Arab socialism" was supported by the USS... Read more

Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The film opens in Portland next week at the  Hollywood theatre with a benefit event for the NAACP. Noting the impossibility of fully addressing all the ma... Read more

Tom Becker reads from Why the US Press is Afraid of Marx (and Jeremy Corbyn) by Conor Lynch in Counterpunch.   In Marx’s analysis, widespread inequality and economic instability (and to a lesser degree environmental degradation) are inherent in the capitalist system, ... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein about their new documentary: Gaining Ground tells the stories of two rural farms in Oregon and an urban farm in inner city Richmond, California, resisting the systems of agribusiness and changing their farming ... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear,  Psychologists Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan reflect on the Republican debates and how GOP candidates push a world view their party has constructed and nourished over the years, pandering to fear and scapegoating Mus... Read more

 W.H. Auden wrote "We must love one another or die." What kind of love could save the world? Not the love we sing of in love songs. In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge explores the possibility of a world organized and moved by love instead of competition for money.  Read more

Long time postal worker and activist Jamie Partridge talks with Bill Resnick about political threats to the postal service and why it's important to save it. People wishing to support the postal workers will be gathering between 7 and 9 am on Wednesday, September 23 at t... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken expla... Read more

Psychologist Jan Haaken offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of the Republican debate last week, drawing out the way these candidates mobilize human anxieties over threats, mostly imaginary, and longings for a strong, protective leader. Progressives need to go beyond t... Read more