Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

The Left and the Law.  Thousands of prisoners California's Pelican Bay Prison and throughout the state have been on a hunger strike to protest arbitrary sentences to solitary confinement.  Attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan Haaken discuss the conditions and the ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole dealing with several aspects of freedom and self-determination -- from the extreme unfreedom of solitary confinement in maximum security prisons to wage slavery and mass unemployment.  To hear this program in its ent... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear:Bill Resnick talk with John Bellamy Foster about leftist strategy, which requires short term changes in production to lower greenhouse gas emissions and long term struggles to transform production towards steady ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Bellamy Foster about the need for social revolution to act on the economy to prevent deep ecological disturbance. John argues that economic growth is unsustainable and urges for the radical reorganization of the economy to reduce consumption ... Read more

Joe Clement introduces two songs that aired back to back, both of which are in a tradition of protest music that take issue with liberals for their complicity in imperialism and capitalism. They were Phil Och's Love Me I'm A Liberal and Mischief Brew's Free Radical Radio... Read more

Tom Becker reads excerpts by a Truth-Out article by Brian Moench titled "Mankind: death by corporation". The article looks at Monsanto and contextualizes its evil behavior in a history of corporate zombie death-industries from tabacco, lead, and asbestos. Read more

Cara Dugas reviews Robert Clift's "Blacking Up: hiphop's remixing of race and identity", a new documentary about cultural appropriation and white hip-hop. Clift is a white hip-hop artist himself. His interrogation of the subject goes back to minstral shows and asks: are ... Read more

Joe Clement introduces two songs that aired back to back, both of which are in a tradition of protest music that take issue with liberals for their complicity in imperialism and capitalism. They were Phil Och's Love Me I'm A Liberal (1966) and Mischief Brew's Free Radica... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with UO sociologist and editor of Monthly review, John Bellamy Foster, about leftist strategy in the context of ecological crisesCara Dugas reviews "Blacking Up: hip-hop's remixing of race and identity", a d... Read more

Iven Hale hosts the next episode of the Old Mole and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with George Cheney about the Mondragon network of cooperative-businesses based in Spain with facilities around the globe. They discuss the extent to which workers really have a chance for dem... Read more