Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 "Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail"-- by not demanding singlepayer health insurance?  This is  the question Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR and director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, asks in a recent column.  He  expands on his views ... Read more

   The famous African-American women's singing ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock is featured on this show, and in this segment Bill Resnick talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about their roots in the civil rights struggles of the 60s and other liberation movements ... Read more

 Hosted by Bill Resnick (pictured here), this program deals with the coup in Honduras, healthcare reform, and the music of Sweet Honey in the Rock.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can follow us on Twitter, and see us on Face... Read more

 Oren Langelle,  co-director  of the Global Justice Ecology Project, attended an international conference in Bonn that is preparing for later meetings on a new, post-Kyoto, treaty on combatting climate change.  Unfortunately all the usual suspects were in charge.  Here  he ... Read more

    Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Nina de Gramont's collection of short stories that, in spite of the title, are really about women, men, and cats, in that order.   Read more

 The Old Mole's  Denise  Morris talks with two  leading lights of Bitch Magazine -- Julie Falk, executive director, and Andi Zeisler, co-founder and editor.  Bitch is "a feminist response to pop culture"-- both critical and appreciative.  They discuss the history and the ro... Read more

 The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has been fighting for its right to represent healthcare workers in California, against the massive Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  Tom Becker talks with NUHW's vice-president John Borsos about the issues.  You ... Read more

  Do we or don't we have the right to talk back--even to be irate--to an officer of the law?  Bill Resnick comments on this un-remarked issue in the case of  Henry Louis  Gates's arrest in his own home in Cambridge.   Read more

This edition of the Old Mole is hosted by Tom Becker (pictured here), and its topics include the global politics of climate change, the history and role of Bitch Magazine, the right to be irate when being arrested, healthcare workers' fight for their own union, and a set of... Read more

 In this illuminating commentary, Bill Resnick explains the real reasons why the Democrats won't legislate real reform.  Case in point: their failure to include the card-check provision in the Employee Free Choice Act.  The problem is much deeper than  campaign contribution... Read more