Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Dan Jaffee talks with Russell Lum about Trump's recent renegotiation of NAFTA--the 24-year old North American Free Trade Agreement--and what it means for capital, labor, and the environment. Russell Lum is Trade Justice Coordinator of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, a... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes: Steve Early on Police Reform: Bill Resnick talks with union activist Steve Early about reforming the police in Richmond, California. Hope, the Gender-variant Chicken: music from Bicycle Face's album, "Wonders of Female St... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with union activist Steve Early. They consider "police reform" within the criminal justice and class/race systems, as well as the seduction and incorporation of the police and military into anti-left and anti-democratic politics and goals. Portland Cop... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Franklin High School senior and activist Annika Mayne about Juliana vs. United States, a law suit that was supposed to begin in a US District Court on October 29th. In it, the plantiffs (young people from Oregon) charged the federal government with ... Read more

Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the 1989 weird horror film, Society. Directed by Brian Yuzna, it stars Billy Warlock as Bill Whitney, an upper-class teenager growing up in Beverly Hills, California. He feels alienated and disconnected from his family, and suffers fr... Read more

Joe Clement discusses the history and politics of W.I.T.C.H., the Women's International Conspiracy from Hell, women who use witchy anonymity to dismantle the white supremacist patricarchy. Photo by witchpdx.com. Read more

  Laurie Mercier hosts this episode, in which we hear these pieces: Bill Resnick talks to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about the torture/murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration and the n... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about the torture/murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration and the new Saudi Crown Prince, and about what might be done (and is happe... Read more

  Frann Michel reports on climate change and authoritarian states, and how both are consequences of capitalism.  You can find the text of a longer version of her remarks, with links to sources, on the Old Mole blog. Image cropped from Klimacamp 2018 - 121 - 01.06.2018 20... Read more

  Larry Bowlden reviews Tana French’s brand new mystery novel, The Witch Elm, which is anything but predictable and takes readers so far into her characters and her twisted plots that readers must wait for the ending to be finally released.     Read more