Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 How has industrial farming produced the conditions for new diseases like the current  outbreak swine flu?  Rob Wallace writes the blog Farming Pathogens, and in this conversation with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken, he explains how cities of pigs and cities of poultry create... Read more

 Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Laws  of Harmony, a novel by Judith Ryan Hendricks about the hazards of growing up on a 1970s hippie commune.   Read more

 Do concentration camps exist right here in the Pacific Northwest? Luz María Gordillo and Laura Philpott talk with Rosa Linda Guillen about the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids and detention of migrant workers, and their impact on workers' families. Rosa L... Read more

 Casey Neill's music is about anti-war and anti-globalization issues. Bill Resnick talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about how Casey Neill sets political protest action to music. Read more

 This program hosted by Bill Resnick deals with the incarceration of immigrants, prosecuting those responsible for torture, the secular resistance in Iraq, and organizing Trimet riders, and features the music of Casey Neill. To hear the entire program, click on the arrow... Read more

 Who represents the interests of Trimet riders? The Portland Transit Riders Union, that's who! Bill Resnick speaks with Alexandria Bradbury about this grass roots organization's efforts to contest cuts to Trimet service. Read more

 Should former members of the Bush Administration be prosecuted for war crimes in connection with authorizing torture? Bill Resnick reads from Steve Weissman's article, in truthout. Read more

 There is a secular (non-sectarian) resistance gong on in Iraq. The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with New York radio producer Bill Weinberg about acknowledging and allying with the Iraqi civil resistance. Weinberg is the National Co-chair of the National Organization fo... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts on this Monday after tax day. The moles discuss who controls the wealth and how it can be redistributed more fairly to insure participatory democracy and social justice.  Along with reviews and commentaries they’ll speak with Jo Comerford, Execut... Read more

Who knows what (a real, democratic) socialism will be like?  No one.   But it can at least be imagined in various ways, and that is what some science fiction writers do, as Old Mole Frann Michel explains.  Read her remarks and follow links to her many sources here.  Read more