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Book Mole: Monsters of the Market

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reviews David McNally's Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism. You can find a sightly longer text version of the review here. Read more

New Documents Show that the FBI Organized the Occupy Evictions in October, 2011

Airs at: Fri, 12/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 According to new documents obtained under the freedom of information act, the Federal government actively coordinated the Occupy evictions across the county in the fall of 2011. These new documents, obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice, seem to ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 24th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
           Tom Becker hosts today's Christmas Eve episode. We hear about the Chinese labor movement, the hypocrisy of Obama's mourning at Newtown, the Portland Solidarity Network, and the limits of consumer culture.   Bill Resnick interviews Eli Friedman about the Ch... Read more

Well-read Red: pathological consumption

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads George Monbiot's essay, republished on Alternet, about the insanity of waste hidden in consumerism and the political barriers to questioning it. Monbiot considers how so many trinkets, disposable goods, planned and perceived obsolesence, are forced upon ... Read more

Eli Friedman on the Chinese Labor Movement

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with Eli Friedman about the Chinese labor movement. He challenges the idea that they are "stealing our jobs" and in conscious comeptition with American workers. They talk about the strike-waves that the Chinese State refer to as "mass incidents". Ther... Read more

Interview with Senator Jeff Merkley

Airs at: Fri, 12/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
 KBOO News Director Jenka Soderberg speaks with Oregon Senator in the US Congress Jeff Merkley on the issues of 'talking filibusters', the fiscal cliff and U.S. aid to Israel. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 17, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page.  Frann Michel commen... Read more

comments on young white men with guns

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

Spokane Residents Protest Coal Export Terminal

Airs at: Wed, 12/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Close to a thousand activists opposing coal exports turned out at a public hearing in Spokane yesterday to voice concerns to the Army Corps of Engineers. Another public hearing in Boardman Oregon last night brought in over two hundred coal opponents. The... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 3rd 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am
Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:     Bill Resnick talk with Chris Toensing about the future of Palestine Alan Weider comments on Obama's neoliberal "deformist" education policies Joe Clement interviews Kathi Weeks about her book on "The P... Read more