Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Destiny Houston about the Inaugurate Justice Rally, March and Caravan that will be held on Wednesday, January 20th at Irving Park in Portland, 4-7 pm. Houston is an organizer with Kid-Centered March for Black Lives and is a member of the Defend Demo... Read more

Sky Wilson interviews Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party about the role of the radical Black tradition in our world today. This interview was produced by Old Mole Desiree hellegers. Sky Wilson is new to KBOO and the Old Mole. Origina... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments:   After the Coup: Bill Resnick speaks with Norm Solomon about the attempted coup by Trump and his supporters and what opportunities the Biden administration will have following the ... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with Norm Solomon about the attempted coup by Trump and his supporters and what opportunities the Biden administration will have following the Georgia senate victories. Norman Solomon is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His book... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Mandy Smithberger, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, about the recent congressional approval of the largest military budget in US history and how to shrink the Pentagon. Smithberger also works with the Center for Defense Informatio... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Winona LaDuke about the fight against Enbridge Energy's Line 3 in Minnesota, a pipeline project that would expand the flow of highly toxic tar sands oil through critical waterways and lands in this region. LaDuke is Executive Director of Honor the E... Read more

Today’s show is hosted by Norm Diamond and includes the following segments: In Memoriam: Denise Morris introduces this interview from the Old Mole archive in which Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about the 2008 crisis of capitalism and what opportunities for socialism... Read more

As part of our continuing series Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond looks at the world-wide trend toward increasing authoritarianism in the institutions of the State. Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny and some of the work of Pippa Norris on cultural backlash provide insig... Read more

In this first of a two part interview, Bill Resnick speaks with Al Weinrub who wrote the policy paper “Community Power: Decentralized Community Energy in California.” Weinrub makes the case that for humanity to survive global warming we need to move away from expensive a... Read more

In this interview from the Old Mole archive, Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about the 2008 crisis of capitalism and what opportunities for socialism could be found. Leo Panitch was a Marxist political scientist at York University and the author of many books and art... Read more