Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom reads Paul Street's counterpunch article "Empire and Inequality Win Again". Street argues that the "debt deal" and any more like it to come cripple our capacity to halt the right-ward shift in politics,  and that despite having "avoided" default the real and most sub... Read more

  On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Marty Hart Landsberg talk about the debt-ceiling and how it will affect working people. Joe and Josh Eidelson talk about economic democracy Frann Michel talks about austerity measures and... Read more

Joe and Josh Eidelson discuss the nuts and bolts of the AT&T merger. Josh explains why we should have no illusions about AT&T being ideologically pro-union, but points out how opposition to the merger exclude industrial power from having a positive, responsible role i... Read more

Frann takes on the idea that the United States is broke, reminds us of the ramification of the kind of spending-cuts being demanded in Washington, and the sort of demands we should be making for the massive wealth held by the ruling class. She suggests that resistance... Read more

Dr. Hart-Landsberg straight-forwardly explains the stakes of the federal government defaulting, the history of dealing with the debt-ceiling and how the whole issue is being used to further an ideological agenda that, he says, has been destructive of interests of the ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts today's show and we hear: Bill Talks With Marty Hart-Landsberg about the debt-ceiling and the working-class. Joe talks with Josh Eidelson about the AT&T merger and why industrial labor power matters. Well Read Red, Frann Michel, talks abou... Read more

Through-out the show we played clips from famous songs written by members of the Industrial Workers of the World who, as Utah Phillips liked to put it, stole the hymn songs because they were pretty and changed the words so they'd make more sense. In the end, our radic... Read more

 Larry Bowlden reviews and reads from Irish author Maggie O'Farrell's "The Hand That First Held Mine". Read more

If you want to talk about wasteful Federal spending, you're have to look at where the money actually goes. Tom Becker reads Paul Craig-Roberts' essay, "The Enemy is Washington: the economy destroyed". Read more

  Denise Morris hosts today show and we hear: Bill talks with market-abolitionist Robin Hahnel about cap-&-trade Larry Bowlden Reviews Maggie O'Farrell's "The Hand That First Held Mine". Joe Clement and Donald Joughin review Captain America. Tom reads Paul... Read more