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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear-- Bill Resnick talks with radical economist Marty Hart-Landsberg about what we need to learn from the "old" New Deal in order to fight for a Green New Deal; Clayton Morgareidge comments on importance of ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with economist Marty Hart-Landsberg about the Green New Deal and what can be learned from Roosevelt's New Deal that started, haltingly in the 1930s and gained steam after World War II.  This is the first part of a two-part interview; Part 2 will be on ... Read more

The Paris Commune of 1871 proposed that beauty must be a central value of a good society. Clayton Morgareidge explains why, and applies this lesson to a Green New Deal. Read more

“Joker” has been called a film for the far right, an ode to angry, white men, and a condemnation of American austerity under the rule of the billionaire class.  Movie Moles Victoria Saucedo and Denise Morris dig through the rubble to argue that “Joker” is in fact a cinem... Read more

Joe Clement presents a song by Leon Rosselson, "Who Reaps The Profits, Who Pays The Price". It’s a working class indictment of the capitalist imperative to turn everything – our lives and the earth – into money. It’s a beautiful and powerful call to overthrow that system... Read more

In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker review the bankruptcy case of Pacific Gas and Electric, the investor-owned utility responsible for over 1500 fires, a number of fire-related deaths, and power outages in California, and how this bankruptcy c... Read more

Thom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole including segments: Street Journalism: Bill Resnick interviews former KBOO news director Lisa Loving  on the craft and importance of local journalism. Flooding on Yankton Sioux Reservation: Desiree Hellegers and Roben White ... Read more

Old Moles Desiree Hellegers and Roben White speak by phone with Shelly Saunsoci and Holly St. Pierre about the community health impacts of months-long flooding on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and Indigenous-led efforts to collect and transport supplies f... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Lisa Loving, long time editor of the Skanner paper in Portland and recently news director at KBOO.  She's worked with many aspiring journalists on local stories, and from this experience she wrote the book Street Journalist. Bill and Lisa discuss ... Read more