Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

COVID is a social justice issue and you should be wearing a mask at activist events, even outside; Frann Michel explains.     image by Randall Munroe xkcd CC BY-NC 2.5 https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/covid_precaution_level.png music source: https://youtu.be/ltjBT_TuUVA   ... Read more

On August 2 Kansans will vote on a constitutional amendment that opens the door to laws banning abortion. Following a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that the Kansas Constitution guarantees a woman’s bodily autonomy and therefore legal abortion (although the court has let stand... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the 2021 novel by Mansi Shah, entitled The Taste of Ginger. It’s a lovely novel about an Indian family who brings their children to the US for greater opportunities, but then wants them both to successfully assimilate and yet remain true to I... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Evicted: Ever get evicted? A lot of people have, especially in a period of rents skyrocketing and people clamoring for apartments, especially in Portland because landlords have had the... Read more

July 26 is the Cuban national holiday. This July also marks the one-year anniversary of protests in Cuba against the government and its policies. On this segment of Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond looks critically at contemporary Cuba. Can we be supportive without r... Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: Inflation and its Cures: Inflation is rising. What’s the cause? What should be done? The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates, exactly the wrong cure for this inflation. Bill Res... Read more

On May 20, 2022 thousands of Portland students walked out of school to demand bold action to address the climate crisis. The student strike targeted three local "climate villains": Northwest Natural, the Portland Business Alliance, Zenith Energy, and the Oregon Department o... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole This week on the Old Mole we launch the first re-broadcast of alternative radio from Against the Grain hosted by Sasha Lilley and C.S Soong on KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkley, California. ATG is a program of ideas, in-depth... Read more

In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss the January 6th Committee's investigation of Trump and his cronies and the implications of the Committee hearings for the Left, including in assessing the impact of riveting televised January 6th hearin... Read more

A landmark study, sure to be examined by our nation’s leaders, was just published by the Marine Corps Press, that fine organization that has been keeping order around the world, from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. The study, written by military insider Eli... Read more