Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick will host this episode of the Mole and we will hear: - A discussion of the Bernie Sanders campaign and the inspiring revival meeting he conducted Sunday evening in Portland before a huge enthusiastic crowd. What’s so great and exciting about Bernie and wh... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Joseph Schwartz, who expands upon his recent Jacobin Article about the Bernie Sanders campaign.  They discuss the need for mass social movements as well as access to state power. image from Mashable via Jacobin Read more

Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss Phillip Zimbardo’s famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which participants played the roles of guards and prisoners. The inspiration for several films, the study is usually remembered as showing that normal people can quickly become sa... Read more

Bill Resnick comments on Donald Trump, the candidate, a/k/a the “Donald,” a cartoon character, an ego expanding faster than the universe. But did he really attack U.S. "democracy," and the role of money in politics? The answer is yes. And is he, as most pundits keep sayi... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole featuring segments on Bernie Sanders, Psychoanalysis and Politics on the Stanford Prison Experiment, The Donald, and Hiroshima, as well as election-related songs. Bill talks with political scientist Joseph Schwartz about the San... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch. They consider two aspects of police conduct -- their use of violence and shooting, and their militarization  -- and the extent to which the police have responded to criticism ... Read more

Recently back from the "Democracy Rising" conference in Athens, Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contradictions in Greece. (scroll down for the audio link) (Image via GCAS) Here are links to sources for some of the points they mention: Democracy Risin... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch. They consider two aspects of police conduct -- their use of violence and shooting, and their militarization -- and the extent to which the police have responded to criticism by community reform groups as well as... Read more

Tom Becker reminds us that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class, but the dispossessed can generate alternative ideas. He reads an article from the Portland Tribune about the Portland Renters' Assembly and the radical vision of some of its organizers. The n... Read more