Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick concludes his 3 part interview with China expert Richard Smith. They discuss China's overproduction and its impacts on the planet. You can find Part 1 of the interview here, and Part 2 here. Power plant in Tianjin, China  Photo by Shubert Ciencia   Read more

Following the recent death of friend and comrade Tod Sloan, The Old Mole looks back at the contributions Tod made to Social Justice organizing through his work and practice in Critical Psychology. Tod Sloan was a frequent contributor to The Old Mole on the Psychology and Po... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole, and we hear just two segments: 1. Bill Resnick finishes his three-part interview with China expert Richard Smith focusing this time on how China's economy means ever-increasing CO2. 2. Old Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris reca... Read more

In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the current situation of asylum seekers on the US/Mexico border, and a set-back last week for the Trump administration in their attempts to block migrants at the Southern border and to defy US law on t... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes: Overproduction and Overdevelopment in China: Bill Resnick and Richard Smith talk about China's over-productive economy Ecopoetry: Frann Michel comments on the political significance of poetry and shares some poetry about clim... Read more

The Burgerville Workers Union has won another election. Joe shares a report about that victory and the long list of retaliation and union-busting workers have faced for asking for a union at BurgerVille. Hear why workers still say boycott Burgerville! [Image Credit: Albert... Read more

In the second of a three part interview, Bill Resnick and China watcher Richard Smith discuss whether China's growth model (state capitalism and a welfarist police state to discipline labor) can maintain its remarkable challenge to U.S. global supremacy. For more on China,... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain. Although the book centers around two families and is in many ways a love story, its underlying theme is the eugenics program that was employed in North Carolina from 1929–1975 and led to the sterilization... Read more

Frann Michel shares poetry about climate change, some of which can be found at the Multnomah County Library as well as on line.  She reads these poems: Jackie Kay, “Extinction” Craig Santos Perez, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)”  Matthew O... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode which includes: Is China Destined to Become the New World Hegemon? An interview with China Scholar Richard Smith on how China became a world economic and political power. Speaking Truth about the Dead: How to talk truthfully about the recently... Read more