Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole in which we hear about the need to save the Postal Service and the need to abolish prisons, as well as about the economic incentives behind the violence of the Mexican drug trade and "drug war"; and the latest revelations about banksters ripping us off for trillions of dollars. Musical interludes are from Charlie Musslewhite.
Laurie Mercier talks with Jamie Partridge about Starving and Saving the Postal Service
Iven Hale discusses the torture of solitary confinement and the need for prison abolition
Tom Becker reads from a Robert Reich comment on the LIBOR scandal
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