Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Doctors and hospitals make mistakes: how do patients get  compensated?  In their ongoing series The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and Old Mole Jan Haaken puncture the myths about tort reform and malpractice suits  that Republicans claim are  driving up medical... Read more

Mexican immigrants, whether documented or not, contribute mightily to the North American economy.  So why don't they deserve healthcare like anyone else?   Tom Becker makes the case, with help from an editorial by Alvaro Huerta published in CounterPunch: In Defense of th... Read more

  Military recruiters invading the lives of high school students; the glorification of war on our movie screens -- Clayton Morgareidge reviews some of the ways war is being given a safer image,  drawing on articles by Danny Weil in CounterPunch, David Goodman in Mother J... Read more

 Hosted by Tom Becker, this show deals with the connection between healthcare and democracy,zombie Nazis in the snow, and the massacre of miners Pennsylvania back in 1897.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can follow us on... Read more

 Bill Resnick explains why democracy is  at the heart of every progressive reform, and how the right reform of healthcare would increase  democratic possibilities everywhere. Read more

 Dr. Mary O'Brien is co-editor of Ten Excellent Reasons for National Health Care.  Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what's wrong, from a doctor's point of view, with our current system of private, for-profit medicine and insurance, and how a good hea... Read more

 Zombie Nazis!  How much more evil can you imagine in one movie?  Our Movie Moles, Frann Michel and Denise Morris tell us what there  is to like in this beautiful, bloody, comedic slasher movie, "Dead Snow," now playing at the Hollywood Theater in Portland.   Read more

 Tom Becker reviews the Lattimer Massacre of 1897 in which 25 striking miners were killed by a sherrif’s posse, and reflects on what it means today for the labor movement.   Read more

Old Mole Bill Resnick offers a Labor Day message in honor of those who do the work. Read more

 Progressives are feeling let down by what looks like President Obama's failure to push for the changes we believe in.  But what can a President do?What are the forces he or she has to work with to stay in office, to remain credible?  Bill Resnick opens our eyes to them.... Read more