Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing, an editor of Middle East Research and Information Project, talk about the recent UN recognition (of sorts) of Palestine, as well as the future of a participatory democracy in Palestine. Read more

 Alan Weider offers this incisive commentary on the Obama Administration's "race to the top" education program and the way that it commodifies education. Read more

 Bill Resnick offers this brief commentary on the so-called fiscal cliff. He offers why it's a lie, what alternatives still lay within reach and how we can agitate for them. Read more

Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Nelson Lichtenstein about the Black Friday strikes and growing resistance to Wal-Mart. Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Frann Michel, review Argo. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business and editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-... Read more

  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips explaining the value of knowing clearly who  deserves blame, and then performing the Wobbly song "Dump the Bosses Off Our Backs."   Read more

Movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the new film Argo, about the CIA's "exfiltration" of six US embassy workers hidden in Tehran by Canadian diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Although the popular movie offers some valuable historical information... Read more

Joe Clement reads from Brent Staples's recent essay on the revision of California's Three-Strikes-and-You're Out law, which unjustly imprisoned for life many nonviolent, abused, and mentally ill and disabled people. The Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School has ... Read more

Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's analysis of the World Bank's recent report on the likelihood of catastrophic global warming, and of the failures of the mainstream press to report on it except in the business section Read more

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday.  Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses.  The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel disc... Read more