Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Bill and Robin Hahnel start by talking about why he opposes markets when central to economic systems, advocating participatory economic planning, even in the case of so-called market-socialism, which Bill succinctly c competetively extracting profits to work. Robin point... Read more

Laurie Mercier will host this show which includes these topics: Wisconsin activist Andrew Sernatinger discusses the ongoing struggles to preserve union representation and collective bargaining there in the aftermath of last Spring's big uprising; Teamster Sandy ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Sernatinger, a baker, activist, and labor-organizer in Madison, Wisconsin about the class struggle there.  What is left out of the mainstream conversations is progressive taxation, while Democrats appear on the side of unions mostly for the... Read more

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