Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Denise Morris (pictured here) hosts this show focusing on prisons, healthcare reform, and labor issues;  and featuring music from Tom Waits's CD Blood Money. For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can follow us on Twitter, and ... Read more

  Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about the role of that publication in putting the movement back in the labor movement, and about the role of labor in the fight for healtcare reform.    Read more

 Drawing on David Sirota's article "The me-first, screw-everyone-else crowd" in Salon.com, Bill Resnick examines the reasons ordinary folk (those showing up to drown out meetings about healthcare reform) might have for hating taxes.   Read more

  Tom Becker (pictured here) hosts this show dealing with racism, the WTO, anti-tax protests at healthcare reform meetings, and mountain top removal coal mining.   It features music from Woodstock as we approach the 40th anniversary of that historic festival.     For inf... Read more

 Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris discuss the documentary Burning Our Future: Coal in America, a film about fighting mountain-top removal mining in West Virginia.  It will be out soon on DVD from Iron Weed Films.  For more on these horrendous mining operations,... Read more

 Ten years after the Seattle anti-WTO protests, actions are being planned for this November and December.  Tom Becker reads David Korten's piece from Yes Magazine about the need for ongoing protests against Wall Street's strangle-hold on the Earth.  For more information ... Read more

 What is keeping racial minorities down after the Civil Rights victories of the last century and in the administration of the first black President?  The Old Mole's  Bill Resnick talks with Tom Sugrue about the many forms of oppression and discrimination that remain with... 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 Fa... Read more

 What is going on in Honduras, following the ouster of  its democratically elected President?  How are the US and other Latin American governments reacting? The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Lynn Holland, who teaches at the University of Denver and writes for Foreig... Read more

 The terms of debate over healthcare reform have been badly distorted by the media.  Anthony Dimaggio clarifies the issues in a recent piece in Counterpunch, "Health Care, Media and the Case for Socialized Medicine."  Tom Becker summarizes and reads excerpts from the art... Read more