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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

 

Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

The Old Mole burrows down to the roots of the great issues of our time – the struggles of ordinary people for democratic and sustainable ways of life.  The Mole goes where corporate media fear to tread, supporting grassroots challenges to top-down authority and giving voice to movements that shake the foundations of an unjust society.  The Moles' perspective is democratic, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist.  We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater. 

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Frann Michel, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement,  and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton  

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.
 

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A Maintenance vs. Manufacturing Economy

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Ken Ingham is a writer, and in the early '90s responded to NPR's MarketPlace Report challenge to suggest ways to kick-start the economy. Ken's brief response was about building a maintenance economy through market mechanisms. In this essay that he wrote later, he expand... Read more

GM's Bailout

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick Talks with Jane Slaughter, co-founder of Labor Notes a Workers Movement journal. Bill and Jane talk about the General Motors bailout, the new contracts that cut new employee wages literally in half, and the potential to create a green industry in mass-trans... Read more

Movie Moles: "Cool It"

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb review Cool It, a documentary about Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish economist and environmentalist.  Lomborg does not deny global warming, but urges a more measured and adaptive response to it while refuting some of the more catastrophic p... Read more

Welfare for the Well-off

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The US government provides  spends more on subsidies for the wealthy than it does on aid to the poor, and almost as much as it spends on the the military.   This op-ed by David R. Francis, read here by Tom Becker, explains how public policy widens the growing gap betwee... Read more

Single Payer in Vermont

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Activists in Vermont are working to get their State to enact a single-payer health plan.  Bill Resnick talks with activist Traven Leyshon, a member of the Vermont Workers' Center.  Leyshon also broadcasts on Equal Time Radio in Vermont.   Read more

November 15 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this program about government aid to the wealthy, including the Obama Deficit Commission proposals; working for a single payer health program in Vermont; and a "cooler" approach to climate change as seen in a new documentary about Bjørn Lomborg.   For ... Read more

Deficit Reduction on Our Backs

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Sam Pizzigati analyzes the Obama Commission Report on the Deficit in this  conversation with the Old Mole's Bill  Resnick.  Pizzigati is the editor of Too Much, a newsletter on inequality and excess, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.    Read more

Well Read Red: Post-Election Shakedown

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well Read Red Frann Michel reflects on the recent elections, voters' motivations, and surveys the broad response by progressives and leftists in the media. Read her essay HERE, which is chock-full of links. Read more

Left and the Law: Fort Hood Shooting

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about the army psychiatrist, Nidal Malik Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people and injured many more at Fort Hood last year. They consider him as both a victim of and collaborator in the Army's insensitivity toward mental illness. Read more

Political Suicide and the Progressive Dilemma

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill comments on the accusations that Democrats went too far left in the last two years, and suggests that a major component of their losses in the last election was a looming threat by businesses to set up shop elsewhere. We are told to lay of the Democrats for not com... Read more