Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement  discuss the Coen brothers version of True Grit.  What is this film saying about the role of women in the American West?  About commerce?  About justice? Read more

 The threat of terrorist attacks  in Europe from Islamists  is not what we think.  Dan Gardner argues that "in most of Europe, there was no terrorism. And where there was terrorism, the trend line pointed down."  Tom Becker reads Gardner's piece "The Not-So-Great Islamis... Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole where the topics include the Teamsters and democracy, a local production of Harold Pinter's play about torture, a review of the Coen Brothers film True Grit, and an op-ed debunking the "menace" of Islamist terrorism in Europ... Read more

 Peter Landon has had a long career as a truck driver and Teamster union activist with TDU (Teamsters for a Democratic Union).  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about union democracy and the campaign to replace James P. Hoffa with Sandy Pope as president of... Read more

  On the next Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, hear: Bill Resnick interviews Joseph Torres about Net Neutrality and the attempt to monetize the internet. Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb review "Black Swan." Albert Einstein asks and answers "Why Socia... Read more

On today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement, we hear about net neutrality, Albert Einstein on socialism, the new movie Black Swann, and politically-charged 1990s hardcore-punk.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also fol... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Al Weinrub, who coordinates the Local Clean Energy Alliance in the Bay Area. They discuss the emerging great struggle over who will control sun and wind energy development. Clayton Morgareidge and radical ... Read more

 As the Earth's climate becomes increasingly unstable, the US government is responding with measures that reward the profit-making corporations that caused the problem.  Bill Resnick talks with Daphne Wysham from the Institute for Policy Studies about cap and trade and c... Read more

In this commentary, Frann Michel takes up what's wrong with happiness, happiness studies, and the pursuit of happiness and ends with some tips on being happy, because we all like a happy ending.   You can read this piece and find links to her sources here.    Image: “Mis... Read more

 Noah, Daisey, and Adam from the local IWW (International Workers of the World) appear with host Laurie Mercier in the KBOO studio to sing and talk about the union and about Labor Folk Night this Wednesday, December 29, at the Red and Black Cafe, 7 pm, 400 SW 12th Avenue. Read more