June 14 Old Mole Variety Hour

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Air date:

Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:00am

Social Security, Israel and Gaza, Prisons, and spilling oil in the Amazon

This edition of the Mole is hosted by Tom Becker, and its topics include the future of Social Security, Israel's impunity from the law, problems of the prison system and what can be done about them, and the havoc wreaked upon the forests and the people by Texaco-Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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1. Putting the so-called "crisis" of Social Security in perspective: Bill Resnick and Nancy Altman of Social Security Works.

2. Israel and the law: a commentary by George Bisharat read here by Tom Becker.

3. The Left and the Law: the increase of prisons and prisoners -- reform or abolition? Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken.

4. The case of Ecuador and the Oil Companies: Wendy Webb interviews film maker Joe Berlinger about his documentary Crude.