Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Susanna Moore's novel The Life of Objects. It's about WWII seen through the eyes of a poor young Irish woman who is invited to the home of a wealthy German family to make lace. It begins in 1938. The family (though previously politically i... Read more

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds of trans* presentation it would protect. N... Read more

 Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour features Bill Resnick interviewing Chris Toensing about the ouster of the Morsi government in Egypt; Joe Clement talking with Adam and Daisy about starting a workers' cooperative pub in Portland; Larry Bo... Read more

 Iven Hale hosts this show and, in addition to historical audio-clips related to nulcear war and the weaponization of space, we hear:Bill Resnick and Bruce Gagnon about nuclear weapons and other junk in space.Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review the film "Augustine".Tom Be... Read more

Frann Michel and Jan Haaken reviews Augustine, a new film written and directed by Alice Winocour. The film tells the semi-historical story of Augustine, a 19th Century French maid, who is struck with a neurological condition that gives her seizures, and how she is receiv... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Gagnon about nuclear and other weapons in space, as well as the dangerous accumulation of "space junk". Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. They also talk about the formation of the N... Read more

Tom Becker reads Dave Lindorf's His 'Crime' is Patriotism, not Betrayal: Like Hale's Philip Nolan, Snowden has Become a 'Man Without a Country'. It describes how Edward Snowden was drawn in by War on Terror propaganda, how he awakened to the propaganda and hacked into NS... Read more

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The Greek government under pressure from international banking has cut jobs and social services drastically, rendering a bad economic situation worse.  Costas Panayoktakis is a political economist and activist from Greece who teaches at CUNY and is expert on the economic... Read more

Last weekend was full of Fourth of July celebrations, and in this set of commentaries, the Old Mole's Well-read Reds provide perspective on the state of freedom and democracy now and in the nation's past.  The three are:Joe Clement reads from Cory Robins post about the d... Read more