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Century Of Lies for November 22 2015

Airs at: Sun, 11/22/2015 at 12:00am
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This week in part one of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's international reform conference, we hear from Deborah Peterson-Small of Break The Chains, we talk with Martha's mum Anne-Marie Cockburn, and we say goodbye to a good friend who recently passed away, Thomas ... Read more

Century Of Lies for October 4 2015

Airs at: Sun, 10/04/2015 at 12:00am
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This week: we hear from Mark Galeotti about drug use and drug policies in Russia, and we talk with Michael Mullins from Stoney Girl Gardens on the first day of legal retail marijuana sales in Oregon. Read more

Century Of Lies for October 11 2015

Airs at: Sun, 10/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The drug czar's office failed to release its annual drug control strategy for fiscal year 2015. On this week's Century Of Lies we talk about that, plus the upcoming 2016 election, with Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Read more

Century Of Lies for October 18 2015

Airs at: Sun, 10/18/2015 at 12:00am
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This week we hear from Paul Stanford, founder and director of Portland Hempstalk, plus we talk about the upcoming UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs. Read more

Century Of Lies for September 20 2015

Airs at: Sun, 09/20/2015 at 12:00am
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This week we talk with Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and Jason Ziedenberg, director of research and policy for the Justice Policy Institute, about mass incarceration and a new report on prisons in the US. Read more

Century Of Lies for September 13 2015

Airs at: Sun, 09/13/2015 at 12:00am
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This week we hear more of that interview with Johann Hari, author of Chasing The Scream, and also from Molly Gill, Government Affairs Counsel for Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 10, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2015 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole featuring segments on Bernie Sanders, Psychoanalysis and Politics on the Stanford Prison Experiment, The Donald, and Hiroshima, as well as election-related songs. Bill talks with political scientist Joseph Schwartz about the Sande... Read more

Psychoanalysis and Politics: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss Phillip Zimbardo’s famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which participants played the roles of guards and prisoners. The inspiration for several films, the study is usually remembered as showing that normal people can quickly become sadis... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 27, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2015 at 12:00am
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Tom Becker hosts the show and we learn about how agroecology can help save the planet and feed the people; about the life of early Chinese immigrants to Canada; why socialism, far from being boring, will unleash human creativity; and about the history and politics of parole... Read more

Left & the Law: Parole Politics

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On their Left and the Law segment today, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the politics of parole boards in the U.S.. They discuss a case taken up by the Post-conviction Justice Project in California around denial of parole rights--and they look at how parole boards o... Read more