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Joe Clement reads an article by Dylan Matthews titled "Is The Future Of America A Crummy Service Job Stamping On A Human Face, Forever?" He considers how Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton both approach the economy in much the same way: make sure that there's a ready supply o... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology, 350vermont , and UVM about climate apocalypse and why we shouldn't despair. Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode, which features discusssion of Iran, Climate Crisis, and Rosa Luxemburg To hear the whole show, including the music, use the play button. To hear the separate segments, follow the links below. And to keep up with the Mole, check out our Fac... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes--a Middle East scholar--an the recent negotiation with Iran Movies Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris discuss the film "Rosa Luxemburg" Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the Iran Negotiations, the history of western involvemnt in Iran since the 1953 CIA coup, the current political conflicts in the middle east as about resources and power rather than religious ideology, the strange bedfellows of... Read more

The movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the 1986 film Rosa Luxemburg, directed by Margarethe von Trotta. You can find the film on YouTube. You can find some of Luxemburg's writings online at the Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive. You can find evidence of her c... Read more

Bill Resnick is our host as the Mole take up these topics: Reports from the Kurds in Syria and the Zapatistas in Mexico, how they achieved considerable autonomy from their government and are building societies that are bottom up democratic, gender equal, ecologically ... Read more

They call Airbnb and Uber parts of the "Sharing Economy", but they are only devices for the well-off to get cheap convenient work out of the economically desperate. What is real sharing? This article by Sam Bliss on the Grist.org website, read here by Patricia Kuhlberg, ... Read more

Literary Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Jane Gardam's trilogy Old Filth. Although Jane Gardam was not published until she was in her 40s, she has published twenty-five books in the past thirty years, and has won many prizes for both children's literature and adult fiction. L... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole and features suppressed radical versions of songs that have been turned into patriotic hymns by the mainstream: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," "America the Beautiful," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."   To... Read more