August 16 Old Mole Variety Hour

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Program::

Old Mole Variety Hour

Air date:

Mon, 08/16/2010 - 12:00am

Net neutrality, Uprooted Minds, Social Security, Native Sustainability, and our biggest jobs program

Tom Becker hosts this program dealing with the fight to protect net neutrality from the big media corporations; understanding personal traumas in the context of the politics of terror; the fake crisis in Social Security; Native American thinking about sustainability; and the US military as our biggest jobs program.

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1. Craig Aaron of the Free Press talks with Bill Resnick about Google, Verizon, and net neutrality.

2. Psychoanalyst Nancy Hollander talks with Jan Haaken about Hollander's new book Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas.

3. The "Scary Social Security Crisis" -- analysis by Dave Lindorff, read here by Tom Becker.

4. Dave Hall talks with Jan Haaken about his project to bring Native American thinking to bear on the environmental crisis.

5. Robert Reich reveals that the nation's only jobs program is the US military, in this piece read here by Joe Clement.