Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring discussions of consumerism and freedom, Syria, gun violence, and a conference on Labor History in the Pacific Northwest.  

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What lies behind the terrible news from Syria?  Middle east scholar Stephen Zunes talks with Bill Resnick about the origins of the conflict and the options for the US.  

On this special Earth Day Old Mole Variety Hour, Joe Clement hosts, and we hear

- Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision

- Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz about Advancing a Steady State Economy

- Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse

Bill Resnick comments on the recent events in Boston and the dangers of the rightist narrative that justifies further spending on police.

Several local peace groups will hold an action in Pioneer Courthouse Square at noon on Friday to protest the US military's drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere in the region.

The Obama administration's drone campaign was on the national stage earlier this week, when a Yemeni activist whose village was bombed in a drone attack testified in an unprecedented public Senate Judiciary hearing.

Drone attacks have severely strained US-Pakistani relations, and courted much controversy stateside, particularly for the prevalence of civilian casualties.

Members of CODEPINK, one of the groups behind tomorrow's action, call the drone deaths "unlawful."