Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick talks with Arthur Stamoulis, director of the national Citizens Trade Campaign, about trade policy. The Oregon Chapter will be holding a Town Hall on NAFTA on Thursday August 10  at 7:30pm at AFSCME Council 75 (6025 E Burnside St.).   Read more

Bill Resnick and European historian Bill Smaldone discuss: (1) The role of violence, on the right and on the left, in Germany in the Nazi rise to power. (2) The practice of violence today, both by the right and the left; the Black Block with terrible consequences for the... Read more

Joe Lowndes discusses the development of right-wing populism over the last six decades, and how we might build broad new social movements of the working class. He spoke in April at the Portland Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America event on Trump and the workin... Read more

Tom Becker shares a piece from Walden Bello, a Foreign Policy in Focus columnist, who insists that it’s “Not Only Necessary to Develop an Alternative to Globalization — It’s Entirely Possible.” For the Left, this is a moment of both great challenges and opportunities. Wa... Read more

Laurie Mercier alerts us to the alarming “bipartisan” Senate bill, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), which has support from Democrats like Maria Cantwell of WA and Ron Wyden of OR. The law would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott agai... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear --  1. Bill Smaldone and Bill Resnick discuss the role of violence in the growth of fascism. 2. Joe Lowndes on the rise of the populist right 3. Tom Becker reads a piece by Walden Bello on the possibility of a... Read more

  Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.   Read more

  Joe Clement & Raisa read about Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex from the volume Rad Women Worldwide, written by Kate Schatz, and available at the Multnomah County Library Read more

  Desiree Hellegers talks with María Hernández Segoviano of OPAL about public transit, including the state's recent transportation package providing for low-income fares on Tri-Met, funding mechanisms, fare enforcement, and more.   image via the noun project   Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments: Bill Resnick talks with economist Mary King about irregular work schedules. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Joe & Raisa share a profile of punk musician Poly Styrene Desiree He... Read more