Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel discusses the phenomenon of "healthism," the elevation of health to an individualized and pervasive moral value, a neoliberal attitude used to rationalize withholding care from those deemed undeserving. You can read her comments and follow links to som... Read more

Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss Pink Ribbons, Inc, a documentary exposing the hypocrisy and corporate interests behind the pink ribbon campaign ostensibly in support of women with breast cancer. The film includes interviews with many smart women, including Barb... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this show focused on health care, healthism, and health care activism. Looking forward to the 4th of July, the introduction also includes a brief discussion, drawing from the work of Bill Bigelow and Ray Raphael at the Zinn Education Project, of the ... Read more

 Denise Morris and Iven Hale review Spike Lee's 1999 film, "Summer of Sam"---an anti-summer-blockbuster about a summer. Summer of Sam is a fictionalized history of the summer of 1977 when New York City was rocked by serial murders at the hand of David Burkowitz - a.k.a. ... Read more

 Tom Becker reads "Assange's right to aslyum" by Glenn Greenwald published in The Guardian Magazine. Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole. We hear about the challenge to Obamacare and the single-payer alternative, the pitfalls of mainstream unionism, a movie review of Spike Lee's 1999  "Summer of Sam", and an update on Julian Assange.   Bill Resnick talks with Gerald F... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Gerald Friedman about the political challenge to Obamacare, but also why something like Medicare-for-all is necessary for the future. He argues that our healthcare system has become financially unsustainable because of exploding administrative cos... Read more

 Joe Clement reads Doug Henwood's commentary on the changing political landscape for the labor movement and considers classic pitfalls of American unionism, namely it's focus on electoral politics and workplace contracts. Doug points out that unions typically don't make ... Read more

   Bill Resnick hosts this week's Old Mole and we hear: Bill talks with Robin Hahnel about the Greek elections and their context. Denise Morris talks with Andrew Sernatinger about the Wisconsin Recall election Larry Bowlden review Edith Wharton's "The Mother'... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with radical economists, Robin Hahnel, about the European debt-crisis, the world economy and the significance of the Greek elections. Robin also considers the Greek Left's electoral program and what it means for us in Portland, Oregon.         Robin t... Read more