Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 The US government provides  spends more on subsidies for the wealthy than it does on aid to the poor, and almost as much as it spends on the the military.   This op-ed by David R. Francis, read here by Tom Becker, explains how public policy widens the growing gap between t... Read more

  Activists in Vermont are working to get their State to enact a single-payer health plan.  Bill Resnick talks with activist Traven Leyshon, a member of the Vermont Workers' Center.  Leyshon also broadcasts on Equal Time Radio in Vermont.   Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this program about government aid to the wealthy, including the Obama Deficit Commission proposals; working for a single payer health program in Vermont; and a "cooler" approach to climate change as seen in a new documentary about Bjørn Lomborg.   For inf... Read more

 Sam Pizzigati analyzes the Obama Commission Report on the Deficit in this  conversation with the Old Mole's Bill  Resnick.  Pizzigati is the editor of Too Much, a newsletter on inequality and excess, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.    Read more

 Bill comments on the accusations that Democrats went too far left in the last two years, and suggests that a major component of their losses in the last election was a looming threat by businesses to set up shop elsewhere. We are told to lay of the Democrats for not commit... Read more

 Today's Old Mole, hosted by Bill Resnick, is almost all about the elections. It features interviews about election psychology, organizing for a free society, and how competition ties the hands of progressive city politics. We also hear two commentaries about the elections.... Read more

Well Read Red Frann Michel reflects on the recent elections, voters' motivations, and surveys the broad response by progressives and leftists in the media. Read her essay HERE, which is chock-full of links. Read more

 Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about the army psychiatrist, Nidal Malik Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people and injured many more at Fort Hood last year. They consider him as both a victim of and collaborator in the Army's insensitivity toward mental illness. Read more

 Today's Movie Moles are Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick, and they continue the theme of Bill's interview with Bill Black about criminal banking as they discuss Inside Job, a documentary by Charles Ferguson that exhibits the short-sightedness, stupidity, and criminality of fina... Read more

 Bill Black is a former bank regulator who speaks and writes widely on banking and finance.  In this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick, he makes clear just how corrupt the whole banking industry is.  We, that is our government, do not root out the felons in the sys... Read more