Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Kevin Dugan start a series of conversations about political education, introducing the union acronym AEIOU - agitate, educate, inoculate, organize, and union. Here they expand on these five concepts and explain how you can use them to educate your friends an... Read more

Why isn’t the climate crisis big news on the main stream news media? Why does our government remain blasé in the face of this crisis?  How can they largely continue to ignore the biggest threat to humanity of our time, or of any  time? Tom Becker shares an article entitled ... Read more

Our Left and the Law team, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker, give us an update on the Juliana vs United States government case--the civil lawsuit filed by 17 young people in Oregon against the US government. The case argues that government inaction on the climate crisis is depr... Read more

  Densie Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Fake News: the PERS Crisis: Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than Social Security when the... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than Social Security when they retire. Mark Brenner, PhD, is an economist, journalist, labor activist and career instructor at... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowldon reviews Pulitzer Prize-winner author Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland, which explores the immigrant experience in the U.S. Read more

Desiree Hellegers interviews Ophelia Noble, founder and Executive Director of the Vancouver-based Noble Foundation, and an organizer with Southwest Washington Communities United for Change, about the Vancouver Police Department’s escalating use of lethal force against peopl... Read more

Denise Morris reads Howard Zinn’s reflection on Memorial Day during the Bush/Cheney era.   Photo credit: Abid Katib / Getty Images News / Getty Images / Universal Images Group Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Mole, and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, about John Bolton’s dangerous aggression toward Iran and obsession with regime change around the world. ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, about John Bolton’s dangerous aggression toward Iran and obsession with regime change around the world, and how to mobilize to prevent war. Feffer's latest article ... Read more