Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

The internet offers unprecedented opportunities for access to information and grass roots organizing, while at the same time opening doors to massive government and corporate surveillance of everything we do.  Alberto Lopez of May First/People Link talks with the Old Mol... Read more

Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the Italian best seller Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone about the lives and friendship of two Italian girls who imagine escaping from their oppressive Italian coastal steel mill town.  Larry says it's "a powerful book" informed by ... Read more

Fifty-two percent of the American people believe wealth should be more evenly distributed by heavily taxing the rich.  In a recent article in the Guardian, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders urges that the massive inequality between the tiny minority of super rich and the re... Read more

Movie Moles Frann Michel and Joe Clement discuss the politics of race, gender and imperialism in the latest Star Trek movie against the background of the whole series of Star Trek films.   Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear1.  Bill Resnick talk with Alfredo López about the power of the internet for ordinary people and grass roots politics and its liability to corporate and state surveillance.2.  Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Silv... Read more

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Psychologist Jan Haaken and attorney Mike Snedeker discuss the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and some of the critiques of it . They discuss the benefits of having a common language and destigmatiing mental disorders, the proliferation of new c... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with librarian and information activist Nancy Kranich about problems of information access, privacy, and freedom—the digital divide; questions of cost, speed, and content restrictions; the cost of databases; conflicts over SOPA and PIPA; private and ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with librarian and information activist Nancy Kranich about problems of information access, privacy, and freedom—the digital divide; questions of cost, speed, and content restrictions; the cost of databases; conflicts over SOPA and PIPA; private and ... Read more

Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and the reluctance of many US reviewers to praise a compelling film that is critical of capitalism and the post-9/11 USA. Read more