Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Drastic cuts in public spending are being justified by pointing to the deficit, but why is there a deficit when there is so much wealth in the nation?   Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies explains in this conversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.   Read more

On next Monday's Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick conducts an interview. Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review HBO's "Mildred Pierce." Tom Becker reads a piece from the Left press. Joe and Wendy Webb review Zach Snyder's new film, "Sucker... Read more

Co-written and directed by Zach Snyder, known for 300 and Watchmen, Sucker Punch follows girl wrongfully committed to an asyllum with four other girls seeking freeom and blurs the violence of sexual oppression with its violent resistance. Joe Clement and Wendy Webb discuss ... Read more

Hasn't Marx been proven wrong countless times by ALL the economists? Isn't it the Europeans who are held back by class, while Americans transcend class? Michael Schwalbe, a sociology professor at University of North Carolina, begs to differ and explains how class-struggle ST... Read more

Today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, features an interview about US intervention in Libya, reviews of Sucker Punch and Mildred Pierce, and a reading of "A Primer on Class Struggle."   Joe opens the show with a short- reading from Michael Hardt's Guardian essay "Reclaimi... Read more

 For those of us who support the Libyan rebels as part of the broader uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East there are problems both in uncritically opposing or embracing US intervention in Gaddafi's massacre. David talks about what's at stake and what's motivating t... Read more

 Mildred Pierce was a 1941 novel by James M Cain set in 1930 America and follows Mildred Pierce's struggle to support her family when she kicks out her cheating, unemployed husband. The 1945 movie-version adds a noir murder-mystery to the story, while this newer one, direct... Read more

 Today's Old Mole, hosted by Bill Resnick, looks at the politics of energy, worker activism in Wisconsin, Christy Moore's music and a book-review of "Out Stealing Horses."    For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also follow us... Read more

Larry describes a father's tumultous inner-life hiding in the slow story-telling of "Out Stealing Horses," written by Norweigan author Per Petterson.   You can find the text to this and other reviews at Larry's blog.   Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which looks into-- Nuclear power and the disaster in Japan (a Bill Resnick interview) The new Vietnamese action movie Clash (Our Movie Moles report) Why full employment is never on the table (by Well-read Red C... Read more