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

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

 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

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

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

 The working class  is missing from popular TV shows, as this analysis by Josh Eidelson shows.  Josh's funny and biting piece, published on the Dissent website and on his blog, is read here by the Old Mole's Joe Clement.  It's called "Welcome to TV-Ville, Population: Ric... Read more

  Laurie Mercier is our host today for this program about labor and politics. We hear about the continuing struggle of progressives in Wisconsin to resist attacks on labor by Republicans and to overcome the temerity of Democrats.  We hear from Sandy Pope running against ... Read more