Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 A Rally against the privatization of Portland city services and the farming out of  jobs to private companies will be held on Wednesday, September 29, 4 pm at Chapman Square, SW 4th and Main.  Wesley Buchholtz, shop steward for Local 43 and member of the bargaining coun... Read more

 Joanna Trollope's novel Next of  Kin is a family drama set on a small farm facing the challenges of surviving in a world dominated by agribusiness.  Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden describes it as one of those rare books that "provide an oasis of hope and solace even while ... Read more

 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program deals with Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens, how oppression drives the oppressor mad, a rally in Portland against the privatization of city jobs and services, and a novel by British writer Joanna Trollope.   For inform... Read more

 Lawrence Davidson, historian of the Middle East, talks with Bill Resnick about the expulsion of a Bedouin community from the ancestral village in Israel, about the plight of Arabs within Israel, and how occupation corrupts and drives made the oppressors, and what can be... Read more

 Illustrating the point made in Bill Resnick's interview with Lawrence Davidson that the oppressor is driven mad by his role as oppressor, Clayton Morgareidge reads from George Orwell's account of how he lost his freedom when he served as a British colonial policeman in ... Read more

 Jan Haaken talks with Mike Snedecker, an appellate lawyer, in another installment of the Left and the Law. Today they discuss violence near the Mexican border and portrayals of this violence in the United States as simply a Mexican problem. Fueling the violence are U.S.... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Koyla Abramsky about the social forces shaping the development of new energy resources and the direction that collective action vs. corporate interests can take this development. Kolya is a former secretariat of the World Wind Energy Institute. He ... Read more

 Well Read Red, Tom Becker, draws on two articles* to connect the ideology of economic growth with growing poverty/unemployment and growing concentration of wealth. *Dave Lindorf's "Obama's Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little To Do With Jobs or Reducing Poverty" *Dav... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts today's show which looks at  legal complicity in the drug-war, de-centralized energy production, why the rich are faring so well during the crisis, and the new Michael Cera film, "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World." Below are links to individual segments (fo... Read more

 Steven Hill, in a conversation with Bill Resnick, demolishes the myth of Europe as sclerotic and failing; it is a dynamic society responding better than the US to global warming and challenging economic times.  It's social welfare programs are not alternatives to work, ... Read more