Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  On the next Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, hear: Bill Resnick interviews Joseph Torres about Net Neutrality and the attempt to monetize the internet. Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb review "Black Swan." Albert Einstein asks and answers "Why Socia... Read more

On today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, we hear about net neutrality, Albert Einstein on socialism, the new movie Black Swann, and politically-charged 1990s hardcore-punk.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also fol... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Al Weinrub, who coordinates the Local Clean Energy Alliance in the Bay Area. They discuss the emerging great struggle over who will control sun and wind energy development. Clayton Morgareidge and radical ... Read more

 As the Earth's climate becomes increasingly unstable, the US government is responding with measures that reward the profit-making corporations that caused the problem.  Bill Resnick talks with Daphne Wysham from the Institute for Policy Studies about cap and trade and c... Read more

In this commentary, Frann Michel takes up what's wrong with happiness, happiness studies, and the pursuit of happiness and ends with some tips on being happy, because we all like a happy ending.   You can read this piece and find links to her sources here.    Image: “Mis... Read more

 Noah, Daisey, and Adam from the local IWW (International Workers of the World) appear with host Laurie Mercier in the KBOO studio to sing and talk about the union and about Labor Folk Night this Wednesday, December 29, at the Red and Black Cafe, 7 pm, 400 SW 12th Avenue. Read more

 Laurie Mercier hosts this show featuring live music from Wobble Wobble, singers of labor songs.  Also on the program,  Bill Resnick talks with climate expert Daphne Wysham about responses to climate change that enrich the poluters and Frann Michel explores the ups and d... Read more

The Most Dangerous Man in America is a documentary directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.  It explains what the Pentagon Papers were, traces how Daniel Ellsberg came to release them, and considers some of the consequences. The story resonates with the current Wik... Read more

How does the State create the fear needed to justify its extreme security measures, and what does it cost us? Clayton Morgareidge comments on and reads from Tom Engelhardt's piece "The National Security State Cops a Feel" from the website of the American Empire Project. ... Read more

 What it means to be a war reporter is one central theme in Pat Barker's  2003 novel Double Vision, reviewed here by Larry Bowlden.  More of  Larry's reviews can be found here.   Read more