Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

In the first of a three part interview Bill Resnick interviews China scholar Richard Smith on how China became a world economic and political power, able to challenge U.S. world supremacy, and thus fulfill its historical destiny as they see it--to lead the world.  For more,... Read more

Dismayed by the bipartisan praise for George HW Bush following his death on November 30th, Denise Morris weighs the moral imperative not to speak ill of the dead against the importance and responsibility to speak the truth about the deeds of powerful public figures. For mor... Read more

On October 28, the extreme right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro was elected as Brazil's next President.  Bolsonaro has praised Brazil's 20-year military dictatorship and threatened his political opponents with jail or exile.  Dan Jaffee speaks with Dr. Flavia Braga Vieira a... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher about a Green New Deal, a mobilization of U.S. resources, as in World War II, to show the way to stop global heating. A proposal for just that has been submitted to the U.S. Congress by a group of newly elected legislators, vastly rais... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge lays out the enormous changes demanded by a Green New Deal, and argues that the movement  behind a Green New Deal has to be anti-capitalist. You can read this commentary here. Photo Credit: The Clarion Read more

On Weds December 12th The Hollywood Theater will screen Todd Haynes 2015 film "Carol" in 35mm. Presented for the holiday season as part of the Hollywood Theaters’ once monthly Queer Commons Film Festival, Carol stars Cate Blanchet and Rooney Mara and tells the story of a fo... Read more

In this Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker (pictured here in the studio) take up asylum politics and a California federal judge's ruling last month blocking the Trump administration's proclomation that people who crossed the border between official porta... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: 1. Bill Resnick and Jeremy Brecher discuss the proposal sponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a Green New Deal. 2. Clayton Morgareidge shows how a Green New Deal would run against the g... Read more

  Laurie Mercier hosts this episode and we hear these segments:   Bill Resnick talks with Johanna Bozuma about making PG&E in CA a publically-owned and responsibly-run utility. Laurie talks with Margot Black of Portland Tenants’ United and with Mercy Strongheart with the... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Johanna Bozuwa, Research Associate at the Democracy Collaborative, about how public ownership of electric utilities can help avert climate catastrophe and promote energy democracy, and how the California wildfires and PG&E’s culpability have incre... Read more