Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show featuring revolutionary music from Chile, the musical and political history of the Allende years in Chile, the struggle for carbon-free and democratic control of energy, and the impact of wealth on school closures.   To hear the whole... Read more

On the Old Mole for Monday March 10th, hosted  by Tom Becker: - A Bill Resnick interview on why high stakes testing is being used to destroy U.S. education, and how we can build really engaging stimulating schools in which kids not only learn facts but learn how to think a... Read more

Tom Becker reads a CounterPunch article by Geoffrey MacDonald, "The Revolving Door of Unemployment". MacDonald argues against the fallicious logic that tries to solve problems created by economic growth, like stagnating wages and unemployment, with MORE economic growth. ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with local education activist Hyung Nam about high stakes testing in US schools. Hyung talks about how he was threatened with firing from Wilson High School for asking critical questions about high stakes testing, but also for raising other critical qu... Read more

Bill Resnick offers a news analysis on the political crisis in the Ukraine and its reverberation in world politics. Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker bring another installment of the Left and the Law. Today they focus on legislation in Texas that allows innocent people to get their convictions overturned. In particular, drawing on a case of purported child-abuse, it allows defendants to c... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about the situation in Venuzeula and Ukraine and the US's role in supporting right-wing groups to destablize the regions and in others. Movie Moles, Denise Morris and Frann Michel, ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about recent upheavals in Ukraine and especially in Venezuela, where the right-wing protesters lack the leverage to oust the recently elected government.   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research i... Read more

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the 2009 documentary Orgasm, Inc, on attempts to medicalize women's sexuality. The film is available at the Multnomah County Library. More information here. Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Madeline Burrows about her one-woman performance coming to Portland March 5 & 6. The product of two years of immersive research, MOM BABY GOD follows Jessica Beth Giffords, a peppy, Justin Bieber-obsessed 15-year-old and zealous anti-abortion video ... Read more