Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Helen Keller is a beloved bleeding-heart symbol of personal perseverance, an "unmitigated American folk-hero" even, but what we hardly hear in school is that she persevered against capitalism and in solidarity with the radical left movements of her time. This short essay... Read more

 Vermont has become the first state to enact a law leading to a single payer health care system.   Vermont activist Traven talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what the law says, what kind of organizing led to the success, and the obstacles  that still remain.   Read more

 In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge draws on Slavoj Žižek's book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce to argue that the Left must go further left:  A liberalism tethered to capitalism is tied to a sinking ship that will take us all down.     Read more

 The Indigo Girls (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) made their first album in 1989, and ever since they have been recording and touring, combining performance with political activism.  In this segment, we hear excerpts of several songs and then our radical musicologist Brad Du... Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole featuring the music of the Indigo Girls and discussions of the Vermont single payer health program just enacted, the troubles with liberalism, and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.     For information ab... Read more

 Distracted by the sexual scandal involving its recently resigned leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn we may be distracted by the world-wide damage done by the IMF (International Monetary Fund).   Tom Becker reads this piece from Alertnet by Nomi Prins, the title of which sums... Read more

 The Catholic Church commissioned a study to determine the cause of sexual abuse by priests of children and concluded that the 1960s and the sexual revolution are to blame.  Our Old Moles Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick discuss the issue.   Read more

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 al... 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... Read more

 Stephen Zunes talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick as they review the democratic uprisings in the Middle East and US foreign policy in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.  Zunes teaches at San Francisco State University and writes for Foreign Policy in Focus ... Read more