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Movie Moles: If a Tree Falls - a story of the Earth Liberation Front

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Jan and Wendy talk about "If Tree Falls: a story for the Earth Liberation Front". In looking at the history and activities of the Earth Liberation Front strikes this film strikes close to home, since it focuses on an ELF cell based out of Eugene, Oregon. The film provokes q... Read more

Empire and Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom reads Paul Street's counterpunch article "Empire and Inequality Win Again". Street argues that the "debt deal" and any more like it to come cripple our capacity to halt the right-ward shift in politics,  and that despite having "avoided" default the real and most substa... Read more

The Rich Have Too Much

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
While many accuse the Tea Party of polarizing politics, Sam Pizzigati argues that the source is really economic inequality and the concentration of vast amounts of wealth. He talks about a few economic myths, like how the US is "broke" or that the rich are "job creators". B... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 8th

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick interview Sam Pizzigati about inequality Tom reads an article on Empire and Inequality Larry Bowlden reviews Sheila Kohler's "Love Child" Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb talk about "If A Tree... Read more

We discuss The Debt Ceiling Debacle and a recent Advance in Women's Health Legislation

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on Summer Vacation. Even in these days of shadow, we manage somehow to lurch toward enlightenment. Amid the unfolding debt debacle -- and the first-ever downgrade of U.S. credit -- the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced that al... Read more

The Propagandizing of America, Guest; Frances Fox Piven

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
A Murdoch owned newspaper in London has been forced to close in a scandal of dirty tricks and bribery. It was on another Murdoch outlet that Glen Beck was allowed to unleash a firestorm of hate mail, death threats, and dirty tricks against professor Frances Fox Piven. Th... Read more

Presswatch 7/14/2011

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell discusses Fukushima as well as the raising of the US debt limit. Read more

Buenos Aires: PressWatch/Theresa #6 & #7, to Aug 2

August 1 Winter weather finally arrived in time for the elections.  (Macri won the mayoral race in Buenos Aires, which is supposed to mean that people approve of his replacement of Federal cops with municipal ones...I think.)  They shut down a lot of government function... Read more

Abe dicusses the latest in the debt ceiling debacle... Farewell, American democracy. We hardly knew ye...

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Procctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation for the summer.   The triumph of the ruling class is at hand. With a vote in Washington looming, the America in which we have all grown up is primed for sacrifice on the altar of tax cuts and deficit reduction. Congressional R... Read more

Double Radical Musicologists: the music and message of the IWW

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Through-out the show we played clips from famous songs written by members of the Industrial Workers of the World who, as Utah Phillips liked to put it, stole the hymn songs because they were pretty and changed the words so they'd make more sense. In the end, our radical ... Read more