Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Anna Balzer writes about the Middle East on her website and is part of the Palestine Solidarity Movement.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what Palestinians are up against and how they are organizing.  Their efforts include calls for divestment fro... Read more

The rich claim their private wealth is under assault in proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy to pay for improved healthcare.  But do they really own their wealth?    Clayton Morgareidge explains why they don't and how taxes and justice are related.  To read his rem... 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 contribut... Read more

   A world in which people are divided by walls but their labor and imaginations are globally linked -- that's the dark vision of Alex Rivera's film Sleep Dealer,  opening on Friday, 7/24 at the Hollywood Theater in Portland.  Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel ... Read more

 The Old Mole's  Laurie Mercier exposes the lies and half-truths that have been passing for news coverage on the military coup in Honduras.  She cites this article by Stephen Zunes, as well as this report by Sandra Cuffe, the website of School of the Americas Watch, and ... Read more

  Hosted by Laurie Mercier (pictured here) and featuring music by activist folk-singer Anne Feeney, this program discusses what Obama's experience as a community organizer  might mean for him as President; the role of science in the law; Hurt Locker, the movie about defu... Read more

 Barack Obama is the first US president to have been a community organizer.  What does this suggest about how he tries to govern and how successful he might be?   Geoffrey Kurtz has written about this, and here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about his observat... Read more

 The Hurt Locker follows a US military bomb squad in Iraq as they face harrowing situations.  Our Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss how the film works to position its viewers on the side of the US occupation, and they ask Can there really be an anti-war fil... Read more

 What is the role of science in sending people to prison?  What if the science is bunk? Attorney Mike Snedeker talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about how science can lead to justice and injustice in the wake of the recent Supreme Court Decision calling for the cross-... Read more

  Tom Becker (pictured here) is our host as we hear about the history of gangs, the movie version of John Dillinger (Public Enemies), the political agitation that founded the US of A,  and the power grab built into the House-passed energy bill.  Tom also plays selections... Read more