Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick interviews medical anthropologist Bayla Ostrach about Catalonian independence from Spain. Dr. Ostrach is author of Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access, based in part on her research in Catalunya. They discuss the history of ... Read more

  Thom Becker offers a reading from Nikos Kazantzakis about the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Then Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the 1981 film Reds, directed by Warren Beatty, which focuses on the story of American journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant ... Read more

  Thom Becker shares excerpts from two articles on climate change and capitalism: Climate change and capitalism: We can’t confront one without facing the other by Conor Lynch and Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us By Mark Hertsgaard. Then Thom and Bill play and ... Read more

Tod Sloan interviews long-time peace activist Brian Willson about his recent move to Nicaragua and his plans for a peace education center there. Brian is the author of Blood on the Tracks and is the subject of the documentary "Paying the Price for Peace". Watch for his f... Read more

Old Mole and sports fan Denise Morris reminds us of how sporting events are venues for political expression, comparing the kneeling of black atheletes during the National Anthem with the unfortunate choice of right wing Republican Steve Scalise to throw out the first pit... Read more

Drawing in part on Rob Tweedy's piece in Red Pepper "A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness," Clayton Morgareidge traces some ways in which life in the capitalist world order makes us crazy.  You can read this piece on his blog here.    Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: 1. Margot Black and Bill Resnick on Portland Tenants United and the housing crisis. 2. Tod Sloan talks in Nicaragua with Brian Willson, Portland peace activist. 3. Denise Morris reviews ... Read more

Margot Black of Portland Tenants United and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick discuss how treating housing as an instrument for making money leads to evictions, skyrocketing rents, and houselessness.   Read more

  Thom Becker hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Paul Street about regarding the significance of NFL athletes' recent protests  Discussion after the film First Daughter and the Black Snake about a proposed oil pipe line on sacred... Read more

    Bill Resnick interviews Paul Street regarding his recent Counterpunch article about the significance of athletes' protests against the criminal justice system, and the space it opens for reaching many who are alienated and withdrawn from politics.   image via wik... Read more