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Dr. Paul Gorman on why we need a National Single Payer Health System

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Dr. Paul Gorman from Oregon Health & Science University. Here in America, we pay some of the Highest Costs for Medical Care, yet reap some of the Worst Results. Why?  We Waste Way Too Much Money on the Private Health Insurance Industry.     Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 16th, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
                 Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and with musical interludes from Leonard Cohen we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chuck Collins about what wealth inequality is doing to us. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review "The Hunger Game... Read more

Our Dysfunctional Constitution and Alternative Democracies

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads  David Michael Green's CounterPunch essay: "A Very Sick Country: deep maladies of the body politic". Green argues that, while it's not all bad, core features of the American political system -- the president, the electoral system, judicial review, state own... Read more

Portland Reviews Climate Action Plan

Airs at: Wed, 04/11/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
City Officials recieved a report checking up on the progress of several environmental projects around Portland this morning. KBOO's Zeke Harrington has more. Read more

Your government wants to see you naked. Abe and Joe discuss last week's Supreme Court ruling.

Airs at: Wed, 04/11/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Justice may be blind, but your government wants to see you naked. Last week's Supreme Court ruling in Florence v. Bd. of Chosen Freeholders lets law enforcement impose a strip search for virtually any offense. It's another nail in the ... Read more

Yes, there really is a vast conservative conspiracy. Abe and Joe look at ALEC.

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   In the early 1970s, a group of conservative lawmakers and businesspeople realized that synchronicity between the governments of different states was the path to ideological supremacy. The American Legislative Exchange Council -- ALEC... Read more

Support urged for Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
A coalition of environmental organizations are supporting the “Crater Lake Wilderness” proposal to protect the 90-mile wildlife corridor of forests, mountains and streams around Crater Lake by designating it as Wilderness. This would create miles of uninterrupted wilderness... Read more

Is Big Brother watching? Oh, yes he is. Abe and Joe look at the NSA's massive new spy center.

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   There's a lot of information flying around these days, more so than ever before, in fact. Keeping tabs on all of it would seem to be an impossible task. Not to worry, though -- Big Brother is up to the job. Abe and Joe take a look at... Read more

Report On Health Care Reform

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 As the Supreme Court takes up "Obamacare," Andrew Riley of the Center for Intercultural Organizing talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what that law does and fail to do to improve access to health care.  They also take up Governor Kitzhaber's program for Oregon an... Read more

The latest dispatches from the War on Women.

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2012 at 12:00am
 Relax, vagina-having Americans, it's for your own good. Since taking power in statehouses across the country, not to mention the U.S. House, the GOP has wasted no time in addressing the most serious problem confronting the United States -- uppity women. Whether it's by wa... Read more