Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

 Even the Rain (También la lluvia) is a new Spanish film about a film-maker going to Bolivia to shoot a movie about Columbus but getting caught up with his cast in the local fight against water privatization.  Our reviewers, Wendy Webb and Jan Haaken provide us with their i... Read more

 Cornelius Cardew was an English avant-gaarde composer who turned his talents to revolutionary purposes in the 1970s.  Brad Duncan selected some tracks to play on this show and discusses Cardew's  music and place in radical politics in conversation with Bill Resnick.  The t... Read more

 Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Old Mole dealing with race and gentrification in Portland, some questions about democracy, a movie about Columbus and the private ownership of water, and the revolutionary music of British composer Cornelius Cardew.   For information ... Read more

 Portland has been becoming even whiter as people of color are displaced to the urban periphery and formerly black neighborhoods are taken over by white folks.   Why is is this happening?  Karen Gibson teaches Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State; she talks here wit... Read more

 How has democracy been understood historically, and what does it mean to us today?   What does it mean to be a (small d) democrat?   A recent volume of essays explores the concept and the politics of this idea we often take for granted -- Democracy in What State? -- and in... Read more

 What has changed in the "war on terror" as a result of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?  Dave Finkel is editor of Against the Current and writes often about the Middle East.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the killing of Bin Laden plays out i... Read more

 Denise Morris reflects on Howard Zinn's understanding of the place of history in our political lives.   Read more

 Joe Clement is today's Well-read Red, reading from Howard Zinn's  essay "Put Away the Flags," and applying its critique of American Exceptionalism to President Obama's speech announcing the killing of Osama Bid Laden.  Joe also cites Martin Luther King's speech on Vietnam.   Read more