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Eco News of 2012

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
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Laurie Mercier talks with Stefanie Penn Spear of the environmental news website Ecowatch.org about the big stories of the past year. These include increasing recognition of human-caused climate change, toxins in consumer products, the dangers of fracking (including min... Read more

Book Mole: Monsters of the Market

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
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Frann Michel reviews David McNally's Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism. You can find a sightly longer text version of the review here. Read more

Movie Moles: Bowling for Columbine (again, still)

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
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Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken revisit Michael Moore's 2002 Bowling for Columbine in the aftermath of the shootings in Newtown. They discuss the film's debunking of conventional explanations and its exploration of the multiple factors involved in such incident... Read more

Idle No More: democratic resistance

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Jacob Devaney about Idle No More, started by four indigenous Canadian women in resistance to government and corporate attempts to take land and rights from first nations people to pursue tar sands exploitation and other planet-destroying project... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 12/31/12

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Iven Hale hosts the last Old Mole of 2012! We hear: Bill talks with James Livingston, a historian who's latest book "Against Thift" argues why consumer culture is good for America. Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Jan Haaken, review two films about fracking. One a... Read more

Socialism's Successes

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
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 Historian James Livingston has recently argued that the left has actually won a great deal in the US.  He talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the many ways in which the US can be regarded as "socialist".   Read more

Book Mole: "Dear Life"

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
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 Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Alice Munro's latest collection of short stories Dear Life about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.  Munro, Larry says, is not merely the greatest living author of short stories, but simply the best living writer.  More of La... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
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 Joe Clement hosts this last show closing out 2012.  We hear an upbeat assessment of socialism's unheralded (by the left)  successes over the long haul; a review of the great short story writer Alice Munro's latest collection; and a discussion of two movies about frackin... Read more

Movie Moles: "Promised Land" and "Gasland"

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
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 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss two movies about fracking.  One is the new Gus Van Sant film starring Matt Damon "Promised Land."  The other is a documentary Gasland by Josh Fox. You can watch "Gasland" on line.    Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 12/24/12

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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