Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Today's Old Mole, hosted by  Tom Becker on left, features interviews about the protests in Wisconsin, the complexity of deficits, the experience of race through sports culture and liberation rap growing out of the Egyptian revolution.   For information about our theme m... Read more

 Philosopher and social critic Slavoj Žižek has been following events in Egypt with an eye to their historical signficance.  In this commentary, read by the Old Mole's Joe Clement, Žižek analyzes the Egyptian revolution's commitment to universal democratic values and soc... Read more

What are the prospects for realizing the goals of the Egyptian revolutionaries as the military takes over?  What will the people need to do to make sure the old order is not re-established with only cosmetic changes?   Stephen Zunes has published widely on the Middle Eas... Read more

 Further analysis of the role of the Egyptian Army in the ongoing revolutionary changes in Egypt, from the blog Lenin's Tomb, read here by Joe Clement.   Read more

 Four hundred people attended the first ever Oregon Single Payer Conference last Saturday.   Dr. Margaret Flowers from PNHP was one of the keynote speakers.  Here is the audio from an interview with her at the conference.  You can see it here.    Read more

 Oregonians, like some folks in Califonia, are planning to go beyond the limited healthcare reform passed last year by Congress -- all the way to a single payer plan for our state.  Bill Resnick talks with Peter Shapiro of the Oregon Single Payer Campaign about the campa... Read more

A 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles, established after the riots of 1992, under threat from developers: that's the situation described in the documentary film The Garden, reviewed here by Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken.      Read more

  The Moles continue to follow the Egyptian revolution on this show, hosted by Bill Resnick.  Bill talks with  Middle-Eastern expert Prof. Stephen Zunes about the prospects for democratic change, and Joe Clement reads two pieces about the significance of events in Egypt.... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts on Monday the 7th and we'll hear: Bill Resnick continues last week's talk with  Bashir Abu-Manneh about  the popular forces contesting for power in Egypt; the US effort to maintain "stability"; the way US elites understand "democracy" and ... Read more

 Bill and Bashir pick up from last week's discussion and talk about how the surrounding region and global community is reacting to the Egyptian uprising. Bashir Abu-Manneh is an Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. He focuses on global literature, Palastinian... Read more