Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Jim Wallis about progressive developments in ChristianityJan Haaken talks with Ricardo Ainslee about the Drug War in MexicoTom Becker reads a Black Agenda Report article about humanitarian invervention in ... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Ricardo Ainslee about his new book, "The Fight to Save Juarez: life in the heart of Mexico's drug war". They discuss the contents of the book, which focuses on the city of Juarez in the state of Chihuahua.  Ricardo elaborates the local politics of t... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Labor Day Old Mole and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with Kristin Swenson about "the neoliberal family" rise of so-called "lifestyle drugs", like Ritalin and anti-depressants, and the origins of many of the ailments they seek to cover-up in capitalist... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Kristin Swenson about lifestyle drugs and the neoliberal family.Joe summarizes and reads from David Graeber's "On The Phenomena of BS Jobs"Frann Michel brings us a Well-read Red about labor ... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Kristen Swenson about prescription drugs that target mental and other ailments, but reduce our understanding of them to mere chemical imbalances. They tackle the fact that people actually suffer, but that sometimes these drugs are pushed in a way ... Read more

Joe Clement summarizes and otherwise reads from David Graeber's article "On the Phenomenon of BS Jobs". A more user-friendly version can be found at LibCom.com Read more

Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red. She muses on the dire state of labor, and by the end focuses on the need to challenge not just injustice in the wage-system, but to decouple income from jobs and overthrow the wage-system as such. Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss the trial and conviction of Chelsea Manning, but also the related case of Major Hassan, who went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood. They focus on the issue/question of psychological stability in the military and the ways this has shap... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this show featuring Bill Resnick interviewing Max Richtman about the need to defend and extend both Social Security and Medicare; our Movie Moles reviewing Fruitvale Station; Clayton Morgareidge presenting an argument from David Graeber about how deeply ... Read more