Economy

Peter Bratsis on consumerism, liberal individualism and democracy

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Peter Bratsis about human nature and the challenge of forging a democratic ethos in a climate of consumerism and triumphant individualism. Peter Bratsis teaches political science at City University of New York and is the author of Everyday Life and t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 5th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and hear:Bill Resnick talks with Peter Bratsis about human nature caught between self-interest and democracyIven Hale reflects on the origins and legacy of political slogan "the personal is political."Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Especifi... Read more

Nuclear Issues in our Nuclear Age

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosted by Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey.Today's Guests are Artists Kerry Davis, Anna Daedalus, and Yukiyo Kawano, along with Activist, Chuck Johnson. Kerry, Anna, and Yukiyo are artists and will talk about their exhibit at the Nikkei Legacy Center and Chuck Johnson will ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour features Bill Resnick interviewing Chris Toensing about the ouster of the Morsi government in Egypt; Joe Clement talking with Adam and Daisy about starting a workers' cooperative pub in Portland; Larry Bowld... Read more

Yasmin Nair on ENDA

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds of trans* presentation it would protect. Nair... Read more

Chris Toensing on Egypt's Democratic Coup

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Chris Toensing of the Middle East Report talks with Bill Resnick about the recent overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government elected a year ago in Egypt. Arguing that Morsi's government continued a number of Mubarak's neoliberal economic policies that are repressive to ... Read more

Exclusive 2013 KBOO content available only on this flash drive:

All audio from the July 19th All-day South of the Equator Special including:Bill McKibben’s July 17th talk in Vancouver, WAKambali Museveli - Friends of the CongoFred Pearce speaking on land grabs in AfricaEduardo Galleano, author of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centur... Read more

OSPIRG's Christine Meiffren talks about Oregon Law to Ban Offshore Tax Havens

Airs at: Fri, 06/28/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

In June Oregon passed a law banning companies from using offshore tax havens. KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with OSPIRG representative Christine Meiffren about the implications of this decision for Oregonians, and for the United States. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 1st 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with UO sociologist and editor of Monthly review, John Bellamy Foster, about leftist strategy in the context of ecological crisesCara Dugas reviews "Blacking Up: hip-hop's remixing of race and identity", a docu... Read more

What's Wrong with Liberalism?

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement introduces two songs that aired back to back, both of which are in a tradition of protest music that take issue with liberals for their complicity in imperialism and capitalism. They were Phil Och's Love Me I'm A Liberal (1966) and Mischief Brew's Free Radical R... Read more