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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 1, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Episode Audio: Download or listen to this episode here Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: New Forms of Democracy-Part Two: In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, wh... Read more

New Forms of Democracy-Part Two

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, who investigates historic and emerging forms of democracy. Download or listen to this segment here. Read more

Asylum, Migration, and US Border Policy

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here Biden's border policies have taken a dramatic shift to the right. Through an executive order he set a cap on daily migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border and allowed US authorities to deport migrants without processing their ... Read more

Hanford Journey

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Since time immemorial the Yakama Nation lived along a stretch of the Columbia River now known as the Hanford Reach. This area provided sources of food and medicines and contains many sacred sites, like Gable and Rattlesnake mountains, and the white bluffs that peer down ... Read more

Progress In Vermont

Airs at: Wed, 06/26/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Progress In Vermont. The state of Vermont has approved legislation to allow municipalities to decide whether to authorize the establishment of overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised consumption facilities or safer consumption s... Read more

Between doomerism and hopium: A conversation with Patrick Mazza

Airs at: Wed, 06/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Host Paul Roland welcomes back Cascadian climate activist and writer Patrick Mazza for a deep dive into our present predicament. Back in the day, when they were younger and somewhat more optimistic about our prospects of fighting power and environmental devastation, P... Read more

Review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's Sing, Wild Bird, Sing on the Irish famine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Irish Famine: Larry Bowlden brings a review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's novel about the 1849 famine in Ireland, Sing, Wild Bird, Sing, a story of leaving and finding the Oregon Territories and a different sort of wanderer. The novel is sad and lovely, informative and en... Read more

Gaza and the International Criminal Court

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have been in the news in recent months for their decisions against Israel and its war in Gaza. In their Left and  the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the history of t... Read more

WRR: Rob Wallace on Bird Flu in Context

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here In this Well-Read Red, we hear summary of and excerpts from a post by Rob Wallace titled "Whether Bird Flu is on the March Misses the Point," shared by Frann Michel. Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology a... Read more

The FDA's Agony Over Ecstasy

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: FDA’s Agony Over Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee met recently and rejected a new drug application for MDMA-Assisted Therapy which had been submitted by Lykos Therapeutics. The... Read more