Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

KBOO alum Norman Solomon talks with Bill Resnick about US militarism (especially now the continued NATO encirclement of Russia), who it benefits, and how it can be stopped.   Solomon is the author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State Read more

When God Was a Rabbit, by Sarah Winman, is a refreshing view of life through the eyes of a ten year old girl , innocently irreverent and certainly wise beyond her (our) years. Read it for joy. Read more

Clayton Morgareidge reads excerpts from Jane McAlevey’s piece on the Jacobin Magazine website, “Organizing to Win a Green New Deal.” It shows how the role of labor is essential to the climate struggle. Jane McAlvey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor moveme... Read more

All of written human history and the rise of civilization has taken place within the Holocene Age, which commenced at the end of the last ice age. It was an age of relatively stable climate and comparatively little geological upheaval. Geological scientists are now sugge... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks to Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at University of California Santa Cruz, and author of many books, including the recent The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. They discuss the US r... Read more

Tom Becker hosts today's program which includes: Reform and Revolution: An interview with Michael Hirsh on reform vs. revolution Labor and the Green New Deal: A reading from the Jacobin website entitled "Organizing to Win a Green New Deal." The Anthropocene: A reading f... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with labor journalist Michael Hirsch about working within reform movements toward revolutionary ends. Hirsch writes about labor and politics and is a member of the editorial board of New Politics.   Graphic courtesy of Nation of Change. Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with John Talberth of the Center for Sustainable Economy about saving forests, reclaiming forests, and stopping cataclysmic global warming.  Talberth has spent years mapping the remaining extent of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest and Southw... Read more

  resources:  Self-care checklist Mental Health Resources Scroll down for audio & text I’ve been thinking lately of our current era as the not-so-great depression.  The one back in the 1930s?  That was Great. That was a Great Depression. And there were great protests,... Read more

  Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker  consider the Mueller Report and provide a midterm assessment of Trump and the courts. (Spoiler alert! He has been doing very badly, but appointing lots of judges.) Public domain official portrait of DJT via wikimedia and photoshop.   Read more