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Bill Resnick interviews Jacob Devaney about Idle No More, started by four indigenous Canadian women in resistance to government and corporate attempts to take land and rights from first nations people to pursue tar sands exploitation and other planet-destroying project... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode exploring education, environmental news, the monstrosity of capitalism, gun violence, and Idle No More. You can contact the moles at oldmolevarietyhour < at > gmail.com, follow us on Facebook, and find out more about the show on our main p... Read more

  Iven Hale hosts the last Old Mole of 2012! We hear: Bill talks with James Livingston, a historian who's latest book "Against Thift" argues why consumer culture is good for America. Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Jan Haaken, review two films about fracking. One a... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this last show closing out 2012.  We hear an upbeat assessment of socialism's unheralded (by the left)  successes over the long haul; a review of the great short story writer Alice Munro's latest collection; and a discussion of two movies about frackin... Read more

 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss two movies about fracking.  One is the new Gus Van Sant film starring Matt Damon "Promised Land."  The other is a documentary Gasland by Josh Fox. You can watch "Gasland" on line.    Read more

 Historian James Livingston has recently argued that the left has actually won a great deal in the US.  He talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the many ways in which the US can be regarded as "socialist".   Read more

 Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Alice Munro's latest collection of short stories Dear Life about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.  Munro, Larry says, is not merely the greatest living author of short stories, but simply the best living writer.  More of La... Read more

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 Alan Wieder comments on connection between the Sandy Hook shootings and drone-warfare. He considers the lamentations Americans and its leaders especially offer when certain American children are murdered in the context of drone-warfare and their otherwise disregard for ... Read more

Tom Becker reads George Monbiot's essay, republished on Alternet, about the insanity of waste hidden in consumerism and the political barriers to questioning it. Monbiot considers how so many trinkets, disposable goods, planned and perceived obsolesence, are forced upon ... Read more