Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

    Bill Resnick comments on the Las Vegas shooting and how it is likely to be covered in mainstream media.     image via Wikimedia Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive edition and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick and Jennifer Tovar conclude their two-part discussion of the success of community clean energy production in California. 2. The Left and The Law: Jeff Sessions comes to Portland to talk against ... Read more

Jennifer Tovar talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how cities and counties across California are taking over the production and distribution of electricity, offering everyone renewable sun and wind electricity. They are even charging less than the corporate util... Read more

Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Portland and was greeted by protesters. What power does he have, through ICE, to arrest and confine immigrants? On what grounds? Attorney Mike Snedeker and the Old Mole's Jan Haaken discuss. Read more

This past April 2017 Donald Trump signed an executive order to Buy American and Hire American resurrecting an historically ineffective and divisive program to bring much need US industry jobs back to American workers. Denise Morris shares a collection of thoughts from Da... Read more

Jessica Tovar, organizer with for the Local Clean Energy Alliance of California, talks with Bill Resnick about the extraordinarily successful planning and development of the East Bay Community Energy Program for Alameda County (Berkeley, Richmond, and several other citie... Read more

Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge reads from his new book Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Are. He explains why "self-help" books typically promise more than they deliver and what a more serious inquiry into the human soul would look like.   Read more

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