Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 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 f... 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 ... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this show about corrupt banking, political protests, and the human psyche, with musical breaks about the 17th Century Diggers (or Levelers), who were the Moles of their time.  The songs are "The World Turned Upside" Down by Leon Rosselson (sung here by... Read more

 Well-read Red Frann Michel combs the left press for analysis of the John Stewart - Stephen Colbert rallies over the weekend, and the reasons why protests in the streets are much more effective than even the protesters suppose.  You can read this piece here.   Read more

 Ian McEwan's 1992 novel Black Dogs shows us a split in the human psyche embodied in two very different people living in the aftermath of World War II amidst postwar hopes for socialism.  Larry Bowlden explains why this book is worth reading.  More of Larry's reviews. Read more

 The French working class has been in the news for massive protests of austerity moves to limit their pensions, but the issues are much more profound.  Economist Professor Richard Wolff has been studying France for many years, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill R... Read more

Today's Well-read Red Joe Clement comments on and reads from a piece by Greg Moses, "A Public Option for Jobs."  There are needs to be met and people without work: why can't these two things fit together?  This piece appeared on Counterpunch. Read more

 With new information out about Portland police behavior in the James Chasse case, Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams.  Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue and the founder of Rose City Copwatch.   Read more

 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program features the French national anthem La Marseillaise which celebrates the victory of the people over the aristocracy in the revolution of 1789.  Against this background, Bill interviews economist Richard Wolff about the class struggle... Read more

Out in the Silence is the true story of a small American town confronting a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper.  Movie Mole Wendy Webb interviews the directors Dean Hamer and Joseph Wilson.  Read Wendy Webb's movie ... Read more