Public Affairs

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Nakba Day

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Here at KBOO, we are acknowledging Nakba Day. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, known as the "Nakba", or "Catastrophe". The anniversary puts the spotlight on one of the world’s... Read more

No Straight Road

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

Dan Handelman

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On June 28, Portland activists will gather at the Clinton Street Theater to honor the life and work of the founding member of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Portland Copwatch, an indefatigable organizer on a host of interconnected issues – war/militarism, police acc... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 23, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing.  Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 16, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In this week's episode, hosted by Desiree Hellegers:  Laurie Mercier speaks to Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on the cultural and political history of the modern Middle East. T... Read more

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 06/10/2025 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode: analyzing the Trump-Xi phone conversation, in which Xi exacted concessions. Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This episode features Trump's tariff problems in courts and the economy; Trump's growing impatience with Putin and Netanyahu; Palestinians starve while Gaza talks continue Read more

Digital Disconnect by Robert McChesney (archive)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In recognition of the recent passing of media scholar and progressive journalist Robert McChesney (1952-2025), we share archive audio of McChesney talking in 2013 with Bill Resnick about his still-timely book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet ... Read more