Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

In this clip from The Real News Network, historian Gerald Horne explains the origins of the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) in eliminating native Americans and enforcing slavery. For Ani Haines' hour-long inteview on this topic with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, click... Read more

Drawing on an article by political philosopher Nancy Fraser, Clayton Morgareidge shows why capitalism began in racism (conquest and slavery) and continues to rely upon it. You can read this commentary on my blog. Photo Credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Im... Read more

KBOO'S Volunteer Coordinator Ani Haines invites us all to visit KBOO's Kickstarter page to see a video about the station and its plans for the future. Denise Morris relates some history of the Old Mole Variety Hour and how she became part of the Old Mole collective.  Read more

In anticipation of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, Denise Morris and Frann Michel review two independent documentaries by women, and about women who were active in the liberation  struggles of the 1970s; both will be playing in Portland the weekend o... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it includes these segments:  Chicago teacher Sarah Chambers talks with Bill Resnick about arming teachers and what schools really need.  A brief, but deep, history of the Second Amendment (the right to bear ... Read more

    Frann Michel finds the news demoralizing, and offers a clip of Fred Hampton, Sr., speaking at a mock people's trial.   Image of Fred Hampton By Fair use, via Wikimedia Commons. Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Garth Stein's 2014 novel A Sudden Light.  A fourteen year old boy, who is attempting to bring his separated parents back together, learns about his past and about his great-great grandfather’s decimation of forests for profit. As he wanders throu... Read more

  Bill Resnick and Jeff Huntz discuss the debts of punks like Jello Biafra to radical folk like Phil Ochs. You can hear the original Phil Ochs version of Love Me I'm a Liberal here, and the Jello Biafra / Mojo Nixon cover version here.   Image of Phil Ochs By Kenneth Ta... Read more

    On this especially varied hour, Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear these segments: Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst, professor, and author Jill Gentile about Trump Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson about attacks on public education Frann Michel finds solace in ... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Jill Gentile about the dynamics behind Trump's sexist and racist propoganda. Gentile is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voi... Read more