Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Densie Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Biden American Jobs Plan. Bill Resnick interviews John Cavanagh, director of the large and influential Institute for Policy Studies for 20 years. A Washington insider, Cavanagh wrote 12 important books and... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews John Cavanagh, director of the large and influential Institute for Policy Studies for 20 years. A Washington insider, Cavanagh wrote 12 important books and also worked in the trenches of the environmental and poor peoples’ movements. John and Bill... Read more

  In the final segment of a 3 part interview, Luisa Martinez and Dr. Mitch Green return to the way economists frame the economic problem: that of understanding the dynamics of a social provisioning process. We discuss what the Heterodox school of Economics has to say about... Read more

  Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare workers. Sharon Grant looks at Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare workers. Sharon was a longtime public employee with Multnomah County and worked on vaccine hesitancy community campaigns for the health department.  Read more

Image by Fred Murphy Patricia Kullberg hosts today's episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Tipping Points: Bill Resnick interviews Shannon Osaka, an environmental journalist with the web magazine Grist, and coauthor of "Points of No Return." This... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Shannon Osaka, an environmental journalist with the web magazine Grist, and coauthor of "Points of No Return." This e-book focuses on “climate tipping points, elements of the Earth system in which small changes in global temperature can kick off rein... Read more

The second of a three-part interview by Luisa Martinez with heterodox economist Mitch Green, PhD. In the first segment they discussed the idea that money is not scarce, because it is a social relationship and an institution. They reviewed an element of heterodox economic th... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the novel, The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter, son of a union organizer and meticulous historian of the IWW in the northwest U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s. specifically of Spokane, WA, gives us a  glimpse of the terrible campaigns... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with Wael Elsady, an activist and leader in the Palestinian human rights and liberation movements in Portland. They discuss the long term origins and recent trigger for the Palestinian uprising within the green line, the occupied territories, and Gaza. T... Read more

Bill Resnick and Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for President in the last election, discuss the Biden administration’s proposed American Jobs Plan. Announced with great fanfare at a cost of $2 trillion plus, the annual outlay would actually represent less than one... Read more