Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick Hosts and we hear: Bill interviews Richard Smith on China’s growing environmental activism, but it's being suppressed by the authoritarian state and the Communist Party’s drive for growth, which could destroy the planet’s life giving ecosystems. Joe... Read more

Bill Resnick reads a Truth-Out article by Graham Peebles that puts the "spotlight on global inequality". Read more

  Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more

Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn w... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Mole, and it will be about What happened to Detroit and what could save it  Socialist gains and Capitalist panic  A review of a soon-to-be-published novel by a Portland writer about working with men on death row ... Read more

Detroit's "blight" was caused by the forces in finance, government, and bussinesses that are now planning to fix it in ways that will only make matters worse.  Writer, activist, and retired auto-worker Dianne Feeley talks with Bill Resnick about what her city needs to ma... Read more

The election of a Sociaist to the Seattle City Council and Jesse Myerson's recent article in Rolling Stone is evidence that discontent with the morass of neo-liberal capitalism is giving new life to socialist alternatives.  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge examine... Read more

Aggressive Portland employers are pushing several local unions toward a strike in the coming weeks. This is no accident. Unions nationwide are facing Wisconsin-style attacks targeting public employees, teachers, students and everyone who benefits from public services. Jo... Read more

Kshama Sawant has just been inaugurated as Seattle's first socialist city council member in a century.  This is her inauguration speech.   Read more