Journalist David Sirota tries to put us inside the heads of people who
might have reasons for planting bombs among us, in this essay read here by
the Old Mole's Tom Becker.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an
eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and
befriend Banksy, only to have the graffiti artist turn the camera back on its
owner. Movie Moles Wendy Webb and Jan Haaken di...
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Activist and author Ted Glick talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about
what can be done and what is being done to prevent our climate crisis from
turning catastrophic. There is some good news here. Ted Glick is the
policy director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Ne...
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Can the sense of solidarity and community that comes over us in response to a
flood or an earthquake be mobilized to respond to less obvious disasters --
like climate change, for example? Clayton Morgareidge looks for help in
Rebecca Solnit's book A Paradise Built in Hell...
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Remarking on Mother's Day, our Well-read Red Frann Michel considers what
mothers need from the commons -- from their fellow human beings with their
evolved hypersociality according to the slogan "One for all and all for one."
You can read Frann's remarks on her blog.
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about hope in hard times, about the
opportunities given to us by the disastrous times we live in.
This show is part of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, offering you the
opportunity to support the station that sustains the Old Mole, alon...
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Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past. Bill Resnick
talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap
for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first analy...
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Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among
volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of
production. You can read her remarks by clicking here.
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor
Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade
unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book
The Looting of America: How Wall Street's...
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Bill Black, a former bank regulator, has been writing about financial fraud
in high places at least sine the S&L scandal in the early '90s. His book
about that is The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One:
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He...
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