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Haiti: Disaster: Capitalism

A briefer audio version of this was broadcast on the Old Mole Variety Hour January 18, 2010. The Well-read Red has been reading up on Haiti. As many in the progressive press have noted, last week's earthquake was a natural disaster made much more disastrous by the poli... Read more

Blowback: Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 BLOWBACK FOLLIES: INTERVIEW OF ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKINational Security Adviser in the Carter AdministrationQ: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to a... Read more

Our Interview with Sara Libby

Disabled? Yes and No

Hi. I am Grace Eagle Reed and I am the host for Disability Awareness. My guest and I broadcast on the 4th Monday of the month at 11am. I am 70 years old and have MS (Multiple Sclerosis). I have had MS since age 35 so have been disabled for a long time. I am a survivor in... Read more

wall-e

For The Old Mole July 14 2008, we review WALL-E, the latest Pixar animation, also brought to us by Disney. The title character is a lonely trash compactor, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth-class—the last operating robot on a desolate planet Earth, with mountains of... Read more

scope and grope

Today the well-read red is as obsessed as any rabid tea-bagger about the transportation security administration's invasive new screening procedures for airline passengers. In a weird convergence of left and right, huge numbers of Americans turn out to be averse to havi... Read more

Sarcasm versus war

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation. Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, an... Read more

Ford's Toxic Waste Dump in Indian Country

Tell the EPA: Don't let Ford use Ringwood State Park as a toxic waste dump Dear Per, For 25 years, Ford Motor Company dumped toxic waste from a nearby factory into New Jersey's Ringwood State Park. ... Read more

The Sad State Of KBOO

August 6th, 2013 (I had planned to release this earlier but the collapse of the kboo.fm website delayed my ability to post.) When application packets for the Board Of Directors were made available, it was a different KBOO. KBOO last May had a divided board a... Read more