Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 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

 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

 Portland has been becoming even whiter as people of color are displaced to the urban periphery and formerly black neighborhoods are taken over by white folks.   Why is is this happening?  Karen Gibson teaches Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State; she talks here ... Read more

 How has democracy been understood historically, and what does it mean to us today?   What does it mean to be a (small d) democrat?   A recent volume of essays explores the concept and the politics of this idea we often take for granted -- Democracy in What State? -- and... Read more

 Even the Rain (También la lluvia) is a new Spanish film about a film-maker going to Bolivia to shoot a movie about Columbus but getting caught up with his cast in the local fight against water privatization.  Our reviewers, Wendy Webb and Jan Haaken provide us with thei... Read more

 Cornelius Cardew was an English avant-gaarde composer who turned his talents to revolutionary purposes in the 1970s.  Brad Duncan selected some tracks to play on this show and discusses Cardew's  music and place in radical politics in conversation with Bill Resnick.  Th... Read more

 Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Old Mole dealing with race and gentrification in Portland, some questions about democracy, a movie about Columbus and the private ownership of water, and the revolutionary music of British composer Cornelius Cardew.   For informati... Read more

 What has changed in the "war on terror" as a result of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?  Dave Finkel is editor of Against the Current and writes often about the Middle East.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the killing of Bin Laden plays ou... Read more