Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

How could the production and distribution of energy be cleaner and more subject to local control?  Energy expert Al Weinrub talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how locally and cleanly produced electricity, not requiring fossil fuels, could engage local communiti... Read more

In a recent blog post, Franvarian explores the stereotypes within the LGBT community that lead to misplaced and oppressive assumptions about femmes and to "femmephobia".  Old Mole Iven Hale reads it for us.   Photo credit: http://geeksdreamgirl.com/ Read more

Since mere protest has not led to real action on climate change, a growing movement for stronger measures calls for civil disobedience.  Tom Becker reads from Jeremy Brecher's piece "Climate Protection: The New Insurgency" published in Foreign Policy in Focus.   (Photo: ... Read more

The solution to poverty and inequality is widely assumed to be jobs: more jobs with better pay.  But capital is committed to increased productivity -- more profits with less labor.  The more capital succeeds, the fewer jobs.  But ultimately, profit is value captured from... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole full of ideas that rock the dominant paradigm:  climate insurgency, decentralized and democratic energy, a critique of femmephobia, and the end of work and capitalism.   To hear the whole show with musical breaks, use the play ... Read more

Bill Resnick Continues his disscusion about post Apartheid South Africa with historian and activist John Saul in part 2 of an interview originally aired on December 9th. They discuss the response of poor blacks as they struggle against the consolidation of corporate powe... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Derek Hook, psychoanalyst and author most recently of (Post)Apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation.  They discuss experiences of time and transformation, Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, the limits ... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Derek Hook, psychoanalyst and author most recently of (Post)Apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation.  They discuss experiences of time and transformation, Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, the limits of... Read more

In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism.  Why?  South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa. ... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole, featuring two discussions of the situation and the prospects for change in post-apartheid South Africa, Jesus as a radical, and Capitalism and the environmental crisis.   To hear the whole show, including music, use the play b... Read more