Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 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

  Today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement shown to the left, features an ongoing discussion about the Egyptian revolution, a review of the film Biutiful, an article about the revolutionary arab spirit, and the almost forgotten women of blues and the jazz historian who re... Read more

 The women we heard on the show and linked below were all but lost until Rosetta Reitz, a feminist and jazz historian, started the record-label Rosetta Records. Brad talks about how the self-image of Blues as a male-dominated genre was shook up in 1979 when Rosetta re-re... 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

After the uprisings in Tunis and then Egypt, many commentators were hesitant to embrace the as democratic. In The Guardian, Slavoj Zizek calls out this hesitation and the sometimes racist rationale that backs it up as hypocrisy. What's going on in Egypt IS democracy, as ... Read more