Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Tom Becker hosts this show which fights back against the budget cutting, service slashing attack on government services fueled by illusions of national poverty.  The show opens with a rousing speech by Michael Moore to the protesters in Madison, and follows up with an ... Read more

 This segment includes some of the music called Rembetico made by Greeks in the 1920s and 30s when they were expelled from Turkey.  Our radical musicologist Brad Duncan explains its history and some of its transgressive themes in conversation with Tom Becker.  Here are l... Read more

 Last month, Michael Moore spoke to the crowd of protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, telling them "Wisconsin is not broke!"  The Old Mole presents a quick edited version.  You can find the entire speech with video at Mike's website.   Read more

 Drastic cuts in public spending are being justified by pointing to the deficit, but why is there a deficit when there is so much wealth in the nation?   Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies explains in this conversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.   Read more

 Inspired by the Wisconsin protests, a coalition of Portland groups is organizing a march and rally this Saturday, April 16.  You can find details here and here.  In this segment, Bill Renick talks with three of the organizers: Greg Margolis from Jobs With Justice; Judy ... Read more

On next Monday's Old Mole, Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick conducts an interview. Frann Michel and Jan Haaken review HBO's "Mildred Pierce." Tom Becker reads a piece from the Left press. Joe and Wendy Webb review Zach Snyder's new film, "Sucker... Read more

Co-written and directed by Zach Snyder, known for 300 and Watchmen, Sucker Punch follows girl wrongfully committed to an asyllum with four other girls seeking freeom and blurs the violence of sexual oppression with its violent resistance. Joe Clement and Wendy Webb discu... Read more

Hasn't Marx been proven wrong countless times by ALL the economists? Isn't it the Europeans who are held back by class, while Americans transcend class? Michael Schwalbe, a sociology professor at University of North Carolina, begs to differ and explains how class-struggle ... Read more

Today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, features an interview about US intervention in Libya, reviews of Sucker Punch and Mildred Pierce, and a reading of "A Primer on Class Struggle."   Joe opens the show with a short- reading from Michael Hardt's Guardian essay "Recla... Read more

 For those of us who support the Libyan rebels as part of the broader uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East there are problems both in uncritically opposing or embracing US intervention in Gaddafi's massacre. David talks about what's at stake and what's motivatin... Read more