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Richard D. Wolff, a radical economist who writes  and speaks frequently on the economic crisis, argues that the Left will soon have the opportunity to organize around popular dissatisfaction with the economy once the Tea Party loses support from the big business and the ... Read more

Sandy Pope, a long-time member and leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), is  in a two-way race with James Hoffa for President of the Teamsters Union.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what she would do for the Teamsters and the  Labor Mov... Read more

 Why is food not reaching hungry people?  What could  be done about it?  For some clear answers to these questions, Bill Resnick talks with Christina Schiavone, Director of the Global Movements Project at WHY .  For more information on this topic, Schiavone recommends Fo... Read more

 In 2002, David Scheweickart, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University, published a small and very readable book called After Capitalism.   It was a thorough critique of capitalism as a system for organizing our productive labor and the wealth it produces, and also... Read more

What are the political possibilities made available by the fact that we are now all cyborgs -- hybrids of the organic and the machine?  Well-read Red Frann Michel reads from Donna Harraway's  classic socialist-feminist article "A Cyborg Manifesto."    If you search for t... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole which deals with food and world hunger, a book about a future after capitalism, labor and the left in the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, and the political horizons for cyborgs.   For information about our theme music an... Read more

 "What could a telecom merger mean for economic democracy?" asks  Josh Eidelson in an article published in Dissent.  AT&T is merging with T-Mobile.  Is that a bad thing because it limits competition in a communications industry?  Or a good thing because AT&T is a union s... Read more

On the next Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Jane Collins, a professor of sociology and women studies at University of Wisconsin. They discuss welfare since Bill Clinton's famous "reform" act of 1996 and working in the low-wage market.... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear:   1. Bill Resnick conclude his talk with Thomas Doyle about Church Sex-Abuse and revolutionizing the Church. 2. Bill talks with Jane Collins about welfare and the working-poor. 3. Joe talks with Jessica Chanay about the threat facing food-stam... Read more

Last week Bill and Tom talked about sex-abuse in the Church, resistance to dealing with it by leadership. When Bill asks Tom what he'd do if he was Pope, Tom says he'd get rid of the monarchial form of the Church. Tom describes the way that the monarchies of the past con... Read more