Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 In his new book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, Max Blumenthal reports on and analyzes the pathological culture of the Christian Right and how they have taken over the party.  Here he talks with Bill Resnick about what he discovered an... Read more

 We live in an age of resistance,  of non-compliance with authority.   So says  Daniel Drache, author of Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen.   Here he talks with the Old Mole Bill Resnick about the many manifestations of this independent minde... Read more

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

What did President Obama accomplish last week?  What did he not do, and why?  What do we need to do to get what we hoped he would do?  Bill Resnick lays it out.    Read more

 This program is hosted by Clayton Morgareidge (pictured here) and deals with several areas of popular resistance to domination -- in political uprisings around the world, in courtrooms demanding restitution for medical errors, in demands for healthcare for immigrants,  ... 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