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Century Of Lies for March 6 2016

Airs at: Sun, 03/06/2016 at 12:00am

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This week in preparation for the upcoming UNGASS on the world drug problem, we listen to a debate on whether nations should have alternatives to incarceration for simple possession of drugs, featuring legislators from Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sudan. Read more

Century Of Lies for February 28 2016

Airs at: Sun, 02/28/2016 at 12:00am

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This week: we hear a debate on global drug policy before the International Parliamentary Union, featuring Dr. Kasia Malinowska of the Open Society Institute and Professor Kevin Sabet, in preparation for the UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem comin... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 22, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this show, largely about the struggle and culture of Africans and African Americans, and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path. ... Read more

Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court Justice

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris considers the likelihood that Michelle Alexander could be our next Supreme Court Justice. Alexander is the author of the critically acclaimed "The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of color-blindness" (which Old Moles have covered HERE and HERE and H... Read more

Century Of Lies for January 17 2015

Airs at: Sun, 01/17/2016 at 12:00am

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We look ahead to National Alcohol and Other Drugs Facts Week, which is January 25-31 this year, and we hear about the UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem coming up in April. Read more

Century Of Lies for January 10 2016

Airs at: Sun, 01/10/2016 at 12:00am

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This week we discuss new data on youth drug use, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin's support for marijuana legalization, and Maine Governor Paul LePage's racist comments about the drug war. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel hosts the last Old Mole episode of 2015, which features segments on climate, economy, housing, insanity, and music by Helly Luv, Nina Simone, and the Pretenders, as well as poetry by Marge Piercy. This week the theme song is performed by Jerron Blind Boy Paxt... Read more

Mass Shootings and Insanity Pleas

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am

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Frann Michel talks with Jan Haaken, director of the documentary Guilty Except for Insanity, about questions around competency and the insanity plea in the Robert Lewis Dear case, the shooting that left three dead at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs in Nove... Read more

Century Of Lies for December 20 2015

Airs at: Sun, 12/20/2015 at 12:00am

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This week: President Obama commutes the sentences of 95 people serving time for federal drug offenses, and we speak with drug policy researcher and human rights activist Damon Barrett. Read more