Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick continues his conversation with political scientist Stephen Zunes about Iran and its relations with the USA. Among his other accomplishments, Zunes is a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus.  You can find the first part of this conversation at t... Read more

  Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss the wave of progressives running for District Attorney across the US, including Tiffany Caban in New York,  the change this wave marks from the usual alliance of DAs with policing, and the overreach of a New Orleans DA who is now bein... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers hosts a roundtable on what’s been happening at St Francis Dining Hall in Southeast Portland, with concerned long-term members of the St. Francis community Joe Rastatter, Dianna Schaffer, Albert Alter, and Melinda Pittman.   Lisa Loving also recently sp... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes on the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran, comparing Iran’s politics to Saudi Arabia, our “great ally”. Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as coordinat... Read more

Tom Becker reads an essay by Tom Engelhardt entitled "We're Not the Good Guys." Engelhardt highlights the hypocrisy of the U.S. Military, the U.S. Government and the news media in there portrayal of the U.S. military's mission as a benevolent-counter force to the aggression... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole  Tom Becker reads an essay by Tom Engelhardt entitled "We're Not the Good Guys."  Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes on the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran. Joe Clement and MK talk about artificial scarcity as the h... Read more

Joe Clement talks with MK, local socialist and housing rights data activist sometimes heard on Wednesday Talk Radio, about artificial scarcity, capitalist over-production, market myths, and other false narratives regarding the housing system. What will it take for us to see... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this Old Mole, which includes: Brian Willson: Nicaragua and the Lies They Tell Us: Laurie speaks to S. Brian Willson about his antiwar activism, his recent book Don’t Thank Me for My Service, and his recent reporting on the attempted US coup in Nicaragu... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge shows how some philosophers reduce the world to the totality of facts and regard all feelings as subjective with nothing to say about reality. Capital goes even further, reducing all value to the value of money.  You can read this commentary here. Howev... Read more

Host Laurie Mercier talks with S. Brian Willson about his antiwar activism, his recent book Don’t Thank Me for My Service, and his recent reporting on the attempted US coup in Nicaragua. Willson is co-editor of the 2019 Alliance for Global Justice publication, Live from Ni... Read more