Economy

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Abe dicusses the latest in the debt ceiling debacle... Farewell, American democracy. We hardly knew ye...

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Procctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation for the summer.   The triumph of the ruling class is at hand. With a vote in Washington looming, the America in which we have all grown up is primed for sacrifice on the altar of tax cuts and deficit reduction. Congressional R... Read more

Double Radical Musicologists: the music and message of the IWW

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Through-out the show we played clips from famous songs written by members of the Industrial Workers of the World who, as Utah Phillips liked to put it, stole the hymn songs because they were pretty and changed the words so they'd make more sense. In the end, our radical ... Read more

Well Read Red: structural adjustments come to the USA

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann takes on the idea that the United States is broke, reminds us of the ramification of the kind of spending-cuts being demanded in Washington, and the sort of demands we should be making for the massive wealth held by the ruling class. She suggests that resistance to... Read more

AT&T and Keeping Monopolies in Check with Labor not Market-Power

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe and Josh Eidelson discuss the nuts and bolts of the AT&T merger. Josh explains why we should have no illusions about AT&T being ideologically pro-union, but points out how opposition to the merger exclude industrial power from having a positive, responsible role in ... Read more

Marty Hart Landsberg on the "debt problem"

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Dr. Hart-Landsberg straight-forwardly explains the stakes of the federal government defaulting, the history of dealing with the debt-ceiling and how the whole issue is being used to further an ideological agenda that, he says, has been destructive of interests of the maj... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 1st

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts today's show and we hear: Bill Talks With Marty Hart-Landsberg about the debt-ceiling and the working-class. Joe talks with Josh Eidelson about the AT&T merger and why industrial labor power matters. Well Read Red, Frann Michel, talks about ... Read more

How Proposed Budget Cuts Impact Women

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Join Celeste and Cecil, and their guest, Tim Casey of the Women's Legal Education and Defense Fund, in a discussion on how the proposed federal budget cuts will impact women. Last week the New York Times reported : "President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Repu... Read more

Gerry Pollet of Heart of America NW joins Abe to discuss the latest on the Hanford nuclear site

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   Since its birth during the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has left a toxic legacy in its wake, from displaced populations to groundwater contamination to radiation in the Columbia River. Now, the U.S ... Read more

The Enemy is Washington: The Economy Crashed

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
If you want to talk about wasteful Federal spending, you're have to look at where the money actually goes. Tom Becker reads Paul Craig-Roberts' essay, "The Enemy is Washington: the economy destroyed". Read more

A Market Abolitionist Argues for Cap-&-Trade

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill and Robin Hahnel start by talking about why he opposes markets when central to economic systems, advocating participatory economic planning, even in the case of so-called market-socialism, which Bill succinctly c competetively extracting profits to work. Robin points o... Read more