Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale reviews "Days of Destruction Days of Revolt", by journalist Chris Hedges and Portland graphic-novelist, Joe Sacco. Read more

 On this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, Iven Hale hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Leo Panich Iven Hale reviews a book Joe Clemen reads a piece about Zombie Capitalism Tom Becker reads from the Left Press Joe Clement also interviews Gi... Read more

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Tom Becker reads from "The Opiate of Exceptionalism" by NY Times editorialist Scott Shane. It focuses on the myth of American exceptionalism as the reason why we can't get politicians to talk about inequality and injustice. Read more

Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Marxist scholar Leo Panich about resisting global capitalism Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about November 3rd's planned anti-austerity protes... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panich about strategies for the left . He argues that the economic institutions at the heart  of American state are under-appreciated tools of imperialism, more so than international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. The latter are... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Gina of the Portland Action Lab about anti-austerity actions that're being planned for November 3rd 2012. She describes the way that PAL and the groups who work with it are resisting austerity as "the new normal" and underscoring the hugely neglect... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews an activist or scholar working on the Left. Movie Moles, Frann Michel and Denise Morris, review Maquilapolis, a 2006 film about multnationally-owned factories employing cheap labor ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with political scientist Joseph G. Peschek about why voter apathy is understandable, how corporate power and threat of capital flight impoverish political debate, the impact of the Occupy movement, and the hope of resurgent popular resistance. Read more

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary Maquilapolis (2006), its collaborative production and innovative style, and its presentation of the struggles and modest triumphs of Tijuana factory workers and community environmental activists in the years since NA... Read more