Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Well-read Red Frann Michel combs the left press for analysis of the John Stewart - Stephen Colbert rallies over the weekend, and the reasons why protests in the streets are much more effective than even the protesters suppose.  You can read this piece here.   Read more

 Ian McEwan's 1992 novel Black Dogs shows us a split in the human psyche embodied in two very different people living in the aftermath of World War II amidst postwar hopes for socialism.  Larry Bowlden explains why this book is worth reading.  More of Larry's reviews. Read more

 The French working class has been in the news for massive protests of austerity moves to limit their pensions, but the issues are much more profound.  Economist Professor Richard Wolff has been studying France for many years, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill R... Read more

Today's Well-read Red Joe Clement comments on and reads from a piece by Greg Moses, "A Public Option for Jobs."  There are needs to be met and people without work: why can't these two things fit together?  This piece appeared on Counterpunch. Read more

 With new information out about Portland police behavior in the James Chasse case, Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams.  Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue and the founder of Rose City Copwatch.   Read more

 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program features the French national anthem La Marseillaise which celebrates the victory of the people over the aristocracy in the revolution of 1789.  Against this background, Bill interviews economist Richard Wolff about the class struggle... Read more

Out in the Silence is the true story of a small American town confronting a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper.  Movie Mole Wendy Webb interviews the directors Dean Hamer and Joseph Wilson.  Read Wendy Webb's movie ... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Rob Ritchie of fair vote about the problems with winner-take-all elections and already existing alternatives like proportional representation, but also Instant Run-off Voting.   Rob Ritchie is the executive director of FairVote. Here's a descriptio... Read more

 Tom Becker reads from Paul Krugman's October 14th Op-Ed in the New York Times, "The Mortgage Morass," which reflects on a wave of potentially illegal home-seizures and how this takes us back to "the days when noblemen felt free to take whatever they wanted, knowing that... Read more

  Today's Old Mole - hosted by Tom Becker - features conversations about alternative electoral systems emerging in the US; the relationship between domestic violence and economic hardship; voter-owned elections; and horror stories of defrauded home-owners. Below are link... Read more