Economy

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Well-read Red: Class War, Bourgeois Strategy, and Obamacare

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge brings us the Well-read Red. Today he considers resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the strategically mysterious though potentially disastrous empowerment of the radical right by capitalists. Read more

John James on hospital errors, profit-driven healthcare, and the 100,000s of deaths they cause

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with government toxicologist, John James, and author of A Sea of Broken Hearts, which tells the story of how his son died due to a hospital error. The event made James interested in hospital errors and ultimately in advocating against the way the profit m... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 14th

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which is about a third shorter than usual because of membership drive. We have taken the pitching segments out, but we encourage you to click the "donate today" button in the upper right hand corner and become a member today if you are not al... Read more

Our Unequal Society

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sam Pizzigati is a labor journalist, the author of The Rich Don't Always Win, and editor of Too Much, a weekly newsletter about excess and inequality. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the latest reports on income inequality -- like the fact that a fa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 30 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole that, in addition to a discussion about the Syrian civil war and other mid-east conflicts, converges on a theme of social democracy under attack and the political stakes in its being defunded. Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing a... Read more

Food Stamps and Class Politics

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a short commentary about food stamps in terms of class warfare, and to that end as supporting the working-classes' capacity to organize and be organized to radical ends. Read more

Obamacare from a Radical Universal Healthcare Perspective

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Universal Healthcare advocate, Chris Lowe, about Obamacare. Jan questions Chris about how to understand what's worthwhile and regressive in Obamacare from the perspective of those of us who believe healthcare should be universal. They talk about social... Read more

WRR: Public Pensions vs. Public Education - a forced choice?

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red, this time focusing on pension-raiding under neoliberalism and the PERS system in Oregon, which Governor Kitzhaber has advocated cutting in order to make up for education cuts. In Frann's words: let's pit old people against young peo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 23 September 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this show, which features Bill Resnick talking with Barbara Harvey about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to end the Israeli occupation of PalestineMovie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discussing the documentary Free Angela and All Political P... Read more

Radical Musicology: Brad Duncan on three songs about economics

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with radical musicologist Brad Duncan about three songs he selected for the 9/23/13 Old Mole Variety Hour:The Mekons' post-punk response to neoliberalism, TINA (There is no alternative)James Talley's country plaint about economic hard times, Are they going... Read more