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Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Kristin Swenson about lifestyle drugs and the neoliberal family.Joe summarizes and reads from David Graeber's "On The Phenomena of BS Jobs"Frann Michel brings us a Well-read Red about labor and... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from an... Read more

Terracide

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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

Bribery a k a Lobbying: Clayton Morgareidge on David Graeber on capitalist democracy

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads from and comments on David Graeber's The Democracy Project, which argues that our whole political system functions by bribery, and that the corruption of government entails the corruption of language through euphemism. For instance, rape, torture, ... Read more

Max Richtman on defending and extending Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare , who clarifies that Social Security is an earned benefit, and the program is not broke or breaking. The current program can continue paying full benefits for... Read more

A discussion of the US/Egypt relationship

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Robert Naiman is policy director of Just Foreign Policy, a non profit that works to improve US foreign relations.  He's the author of the article "If We Cut Aid to Egypt, Would We Die?"  Don Merrill talks with Mr. Naiman about the unfolding situation in Egypt and the compli... Read more

News You're Not Supposed to Know

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
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Presswatch

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell discuss abortion, abortion protesting and aborthion rights Read more

South African politics and the legacy of the war against apartheid

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Alan Wieder talk about South African politics and his recent tour there promoting his book "Ruth First and Joe Slovo: the war against apartheid". Jan asks Alan how he took it upon himself to tell the story of a contested history of political struggle. He talk... Read more

Jeff Shantz on Especifismo and Anarchist Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about anarchist organizing, particularly Especifismo in South America. He explains the origins of anarchist organizing and "platformism", relating those to innovations brought by the especifista, namely social insertion. Jeff Shantz is a p... Read more