Economy

 
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Unions After JANUS: learning from Wisconsin teachers

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson, who taught 5th grade for 30  years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bob led the teachers union to increased militancy and collective action after the rabidly conservative Wisconsin legislature enacted set of union busting laws that included ... Read more

Trump and Global Trade Theatrics

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with cconomist Jack Rasmus about Trump's trade theatrics, it's stated and real goals, and how the overall Trump program could crash and burn in economic crisis. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 25, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Denise Morris hosts this episode of The Old Mole which includes: Trump and Global Trade: In a 2 part interview, Bill Resnick talks with Economist Jack Rasmus about Trump's trade theatrics, it's stated and real goals, and how the overall Trump program could crash a... Read more

Your Home, Your Right or My Business?

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week, Making Contact looks at California's fight over rent control. The stage is set for a political battle between two polar worldviews. Is housing a human right, or is real estate property an investment commodity? And where on that continuum is California's com... Read more

Inequality, Social Dysfunction and Misery

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article in CounterPunch by Graham Peebles entitled Inequality Social Dysfunction and Misery which explores the debilitating consequences of extreme wealth inequality on the well-being of society in general, not only on the poor and disenfranchise... Read more

Unprecedented Crime: Peter Carter and Climate Science Denial

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Peter Carter is founder of the Climate Emergency Institute.  He has served as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s fifth climate change assessment in 2014. He has also presented on the implications of global climate change on food... Read more

1% for Clean Energy

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Joe welcomes promoters of the Clean Energy Fund to KBOO to discuss the proposed 1% tax on large corporations.  Call in and join the conversation at (503) 231-8187. Read more

Capitalist Agriculture or Ecological Civilization

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks to Fred Magdoff, a soil scientist, on the multiple problems of capitalist agriculture and also the solutions, ecological agriculture and the sweeping changes necessary, sometimes called ecological civilization. Magdoff has written Building Soils for... Read more

Civilization and Our Discontents

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a piece called "Civilization and Our Discontents," Clayton Morgareidge shows that the glories of Civilization have always required the coerced labor of forgotten masses, and the same is true of the comforts of modern life: they are manufactured by the poor for the enj... Read more

The Need to Work Less

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article by David Spencer, entitled “The Need to Work Less is a Matter of Life and Death,” about the impossible demands on workers’ time extracted by the capitalist economy. David Spencer is a Professor of Economics and Political Economy at  Unive... Read more