Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party's gains in the recent elections, the Labour Party's Manifesto, and European resistance to neoliberalism.  Read more

    Desiree Hellegers speaks with health professionals, organizers, elected officials and concerned community members who testified at Wednesday’s EFSEC hearing in Vancouver about the anticipated health impacts of airborne emissions from proposed Tesoro Savage oil te... Read more

    Clayton Morgareidge asks why we are living in a society that requires so much violence to maintain, and traces it to inequality, and in particular, the inequality between those who own most of the world and those who must work, if they can, for those owners.      Read more

  Laurie Mercier talks to Jason Wilson, who writes for the Guardian, Alternet, Medium, and other publications, about the alt right and right-wing movements. They discuss recent alt right protests in Portland and the Northwest, and how right-wing movements push politics ... Read more

  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Denise Morris about what he saw at the pro and anti Trump demonstrations on Sunday. Read more

Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we hear-- 1. Tom Athanasiou of the Earth Island Institute talks with Bill Resnick about Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Change Accord; 2.  Patsy Kullberg interviews local poet Judith Arcana about truth ... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Tom Athanasiou of the Earth Island Institute on Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Change Accord. They also discuss the great opportunity for meaningful action. Tom Athanasiou is the author of Divided Planet. Read more

  Patsy Kullberg interviews poet and activist Judith Arcana about her new collection of poetry, Announcements from the Planetarium. They take up the question of poetry in relationship to truth and politics. Arcana hosts the KBOO program Poetry and Everything every fourth... Read more

  In conversation with host Denise Morris, Old Mole Jan Haaken talks about how we understand the impulses behind right wing/ White Supremacist  attitudes and violent actions in terms of mental health.  Read more

  Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and  Curtis Mayfield, "We Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:  Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense B... Read more