Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay (edited for radio) by marxist economist Richard Wolff, published in Monthly Review and Truth-Out. Wolff makes a quick, but potent case for workplace democracy as the next phase for Occupy. Read more

Joe reads two two inter-related blog-posts - "Are CEOs workers, and should we care?" and "Capitalism without Capitalists" - by Peter Frase. Joe mistakenly says Frase teachs at CUNY, where he is only a doctoral student in sociology. Frase writes his own blog, but is an ed... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts today's old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chris Williams about the COP-17 international climate change conference. Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay by Richard Wolff about workplace democracy and the occupy movement. Laurie... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Chris Williams, Physics/Chemistry professor at Pace University and author of "Ecology and Socialism", about the COP-17 international climate change conferences. The 17 stands for the number of years the conference has occured. They talk about rep... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Desiree Hellegers. Desiree spent time working in women's homeless shelters in the 1980s and she describes listening to them tell their stories. She says of her new book about homeless women, based in part on that experience, that "she wanted to ... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole in which Oregon State professor of Peace Studies Joseph Orosco talks with Bill Resnick about the Occupy Movement's call to revitalize democracy; Our Movie Moles take a look at Clint Eastwood's take on J. Edgar H... Read more

 What has the Occupy Movement around the country and the world accomplished?  Should it have definite goals, and if so, what should they be?  Joseph Oresco teaches philosophy and is head of the Peace Studies program at Oregon State University, and he talks here with the ... Read more

 Is the problem with corporations that they are treated as persons -- or that they are run by and for the very wealthy?  Doug Henwood argues that the corporate form makes possible necessary social functions that ordinary persons could not perform.  Clayton Morgareidge co... Read more

 What is left out of Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar, starring Leonardo diCaprio?  J. Edgar Hoover was the founder and long-time director of the FBI.    Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris discuss the film and some missing historical background.  For other critiq... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode in which the Moles look at the meaning and future of the Occupy Movement, the question of corporate personhood, and the new movie J. Edgar.  We also hear some topical music from Laurie Anderson and a letter about health care.  For... Read more