Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Following President Obama’s lectures to the Cuban government on human rights, Harvey Wasserman talks with Bill Resnick about human rights in the US with emphasis on the size of the US prison population and the war on drugs. Harvey Wasserman wrote on this subject for Trut... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a hip-hop artist and the power of his music in the Black Lives Matter movement.  Fofanah is co-director of the documentary, "Moving to the Beat"--a documentary about hip-ho... Read more

Frann Michel points listeners to a forum in Boston Review on "Black Study, Black Struggle," featuring statements by Robin D.G. Kelley and responses by Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor and others. She recommends the conversation to anyone interested in student Black Lives Matter  a... Read more

  Joe Clement recalls the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland, noting the class as well as national struggles that led up to it. To that end, he reads an excerpt from an article* on the revolutionary socialist aspirations of James Connolly, one of the Uprising's still revere... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about America's Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in light of Obama's recent visit to Cuba. Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews with Jack Metzgar about his latest article "Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong." Jack Metzgar teaches and writes. In this piece he explores the politics of the working class. The Trump vote today is attrib... Read more

Mara Zusman reads from Sara Schulman's 2012 book The Gentrification of the Mind --  about how gentrification undermines the space for creative work. Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign on U.S international trade policy that has been designed by corporate lawyers to benefit international capital at the expense of workers around the planet, unions, human rights, and the environment.  Read more

Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear --  1.  Jack Metsgar, talking with Bill Resnick, explains that it's not white working class men who are voting for Trump so much as men with college degrees.  2.  Joe Clement reads from a book by Andrew Sayers's explaining the ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Jack Metsgar about who voted for Hitler and who is now supporting Donald Trump. Turns out it wasn't working people but conservatives, business, the religious mostly Protestants, and the right.  Jack Metsgar is the author of a personal memoir and histo... Read more