Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Two powerful storms – Harvey and Irma – have been in the news. In both cases, it's obvious how the priorities of capitalism made these natural disasters so much worse. But what can be done about it? Old Mole Tom Becker reads from a speech by Paul Fleckenstein given last ... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this Membership Drive edition of the Old Mole. The segments are: 1. Clayton Morgareidge reads from his book Demystifying Demons, about what's missing from typical self-help books.   2. Bill Renick talks with Jessica Tovar about how clean energy polici... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Gregory McKelvey of Portland's Resistance about the tactical merits of peaceful protest over street fighting for engaging with allies, the limits of the parallels between present conditions and Nazi Germany, the reasons for masking even for tho... Read more

  Journalist Arun Gupta on Trump's patriarchal white nationalism and marketing skills, and the class dynamics of the Trump campaign. Recorded in April by Denise Morris.   Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge explains why the owners of capital have less need and concern for the working class. Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole discussing 9/11 in Chile, 1973 Strategies for confronting fascism in Portland The Trump campaign (reflections from Arun Gupta) Why the owners of capital have less need and concern for the working class Theme son... Read more

  Laurie Mercier talks with Marian Schlotterbeck about the legacies of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (or MIR), both before and after the Sept 11, 1973, military coup that overthrew the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Schlotterbec... Read more

On today's Old Mole Why don't we honor labor on May 1st like the rest of the world? An interview with Mark Bray, an historian of human rights, terrorism and political radicalism in Europe and the U.S.  An interview with Prof. Mario Sifuentez (see foo entez) about the orga... Read more

Urban design professor Nico Larco talks with Bill Resnick about  new technologies such as autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars and buses) and e-commerce (buying things on line rather than going to stores). Unless these technologies are managed in the light of equity an... Read more

  As we approach the 36th anniversary of the emergence of the nearly twenty year long anti-nuclear Greenham Commons Women's Peace Camp, Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland singer-songwriter Naomi Little Bear Morena about the life cycle of her song, "You can't kill the... Read more