Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring a discussion of how oil prices are driven up by speculators, a commentary on the theft of education from the poor, a review of the politics of "The Lorax," and a report on attempts by wealthy liberal donors to buy ... Read more

 Move Moles Iven Hale and Joe Clement take up The Lorax, the CGI film based on the Dr. Seuss children's book.  How do the politics of the movie add to or fall short of those of the book? Read more

 Financial institutions and wealthy individuals can make lots of money buying options on oil, driving up the price, so that we drive on $4+ gas.  Mark Cooper is  Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for analysis and advoc... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts the next Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Paul Street, an independent historian, author of many books and furious blogger on the splts in Republican Party and the infernal dilemmas of Mitt Romney. Joe talks with labor journalist,... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Paul Street, an independent historian and blogger on Z-Net and CounterPunch, about the splits within the GOP and rise of the Tea Party, the differences with the Tea Party and Occupy, the evolution of the GOP ticket, Thomas Frank's "What's the Matt... Read more

 Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker, as part of an on-going series we call The Left and The Law, discussion Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Multnomah County. Specifically, a resolution was passed recently that calls on the ICE to exercise prosecutorial discretion... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Joe talk with Josh Eidelson about the pitfalls of organizing and running unions like service-providing businesses Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Multnomah County ... Read more

 Denise Morris and Iven Hale review the French-film "Tomboy", written and directed by Céline Sciamma. It features Zoé Héran as a young girl (Laure)  who is taken for a boy (Michaël) when she moves into a new neighborhood, an identification she doesn't rejects. They respo... Read more

Joe Clement and Josh Eidelson talk about the pitfalls of organizing workers (into unions) on the model of a business. The practice is widely known as "service-unionism" or "business-unionism" and  in many ways boils down union membership to a customer relation to a servi... Read more

Bill Resnick will host this show on which Bill interviews Burkhard Bilger about his New Yorker article "The Great Oasis": What can be done to halt the encroachment of deserts on land where people live and food is grown? Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel re... Read more