Old Mole Variety Hour

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Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

The Old Mole burrows down to the roots of the great issues of our time – the struggles of ordinary people for democratic and sustainable ways of life. The Mole goes where corporate media fear to tread, supporting grassroots challenges to top-down authority and giving voice to movements that shake the foundations of an unjust society. The Moles' perspective is democratic, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist. We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater.

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Frann Michel, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement, and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.

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Terracide

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

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Terracide: the knowing destruction of the planet earth in the pursuit of profit. Tom Becker reads from Tom Engelhardt's essay on the fossil fuel industry as the biggest criminal enterprise in history. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/19/13

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge will host this show featuring a hopeful discussion the rolling and global wave of people's movements for freedom, a review of the TV series about women in prison "Orange is the New Black," more of our series on community radio with Paul Roland, and L... Read more

The Global Movement for Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

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George Katsiaficas has written widely about people's liberation movements around the world, many of them unreported in our media. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the "Eros Effect" -- the desire for freedom that constantly asserts itself in uprisings... Read more

Review: "Orange is the New Black"

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

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Movie Moles Frann Michel and Iven Hale take a critical, yet appreciative, look at "Orange is the New Black," the Netflix series that has just finished its first season. They point out its failures to fully represent prison life, while finding much to admire in the show.... Read more

Community Radio and the Rise of the Right

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

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Claire Connor has described her political journey in Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right. In Portland on a speaking tour, Old Mole contributor Paul Roland talked with her about the right wing's domination of the corporate media and the ris... Read more

Book Mole: "Private Life"

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

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Jane Smiley's 2010 novel Private Life: Marriage Can Sometimes Be the Lonliest Place takes the life of Margaret from 1883 to 1942, revealing in one "private life" the larger world in which it is lived. Larry Bowlden reviews this work of a major American writer. More of ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 19, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2013 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show featuring an unusually optimistic Bill Resnick interview about the growth of people's movements around the world, and our Movie Moles in an engaging critique of "Orange is the New Black," the TV series about a women's prison. We also ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 12, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode and we learn about the political influence of utopian and dystopian literature, the deceptions and crimes of the national security state, and what it means for anarchists to organize. To hear the show in its entirety, use the play button be... Read more

Utopia and Daily Life

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

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Utopias and dystupias are frequent themes in science fiction. Gerry Canavan is a scholar of the utopian imagination, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the interplay between politics and utopia in history and in daily life. Canavan teaches cul... Read more

Crimes of Obama and the Liberal Response

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am

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Establishment liberals have been mostly silent as President Obama has expanded the national security state for which liberals castigated his predecessor George W. Bush. In this article, published on Al Jazeera and read here by Joe Clement, Deepa Kumar demonstrates the c... Read more