Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Dr. Garrett Adams testifies to the impact that Medicare made on the populations it served when it was first implemented in the 1960s, and makes a case against medical privatization and for expanding Medicare for all. Rather than an essential feature of public management, it... Read more

Helen Keller is a beloved bleeding-heart symbol of personal perseverance, an "unmitigated American folk-hero" even, but what we hardly hear in school is that she persevered against capitalism and in solidarity with the radical left movements of her time. This short essay, r... Read more

Frann comments on a number of animal attacks that demonstrate a form of resistance to abuse and exploitation. She then focuses making a case against Thaddeus Russell's dismissive review of a book about such acts of animal resistance. Read more

 Vermont has become the first state to enact a law leading to a single payer health care system.   Vermont activist Traven talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what the law says, what kind of organizing led to the success, and the obstacles  that still remain.   Read more

 In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge draws on Slavoj Žižek's book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce to argue that the Left must go further left:  A liberalism tethered to capitalism is tied to a sinking ship that will take us all down.     Read more

 The Indigo Girls (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) made their first album in 1989, and ever since they have been recording and touring, combining performance with political activism.  In this segment, we hear excerpts of several songs and then our radical musicologist Brad Dunca... Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole featuring the music of the Indigo Girls and discussions of the Vermont single payer health program just enacted, the troubles with liberalism, and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.     For information about... Read more

 The Catholic Church commissioned a study to determine the cause of sexual abuse by priests of children and concluded that the 1960s and the sexual revolution are to blame.  Our Old Moles Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick discuss the issue.   Read more

Tom Becker hosts this program with segments on the Middle East, right-wing attacks on Disability and Social Security, the IMF, and the Catholic Church's explanation of its own sins.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also ... Read more

 Against the efforts of right-wing pundits and politicians to ridicule and delegitimize programs that help the least well-off among us, our Well-read Red Frann Michel cuts a wide, debunking swathe throught their noxious, weedy field of myths and deceptions.  You can read th... Read more