Economy

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"Winners Take All": provocative new book by Anand Giridharadas

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2018

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes these segments In the second of a two part interview, Bill Resnick Talks with Heather Gautney author of the book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement.  Gautney is... Read more

The View from Base Camp

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    One Portland organization is using a little known environmental law to fight logging around Mt. Hood. Earlier this month, 175 volunteers with the non-profit Bark camped out in the newest proposed timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest as part of their annual Summer B... Read more

Keynesian Vs. Marxian and Neoclassical Economics: Richard D. Wolff

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week's special edition of Economic Update deals with Keynesian economics as a theory that clashes with both the mainstream economics ("neoclassical") that celebrates private capitalism and with critical theories such as Marxian economics that are opposed to capitali... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 10, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with author and activist Heather Gautney about the future of the Sanders campaign. 2. The Left & the Law team, Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss laws regulating sex on the internet and... Read more

Soulless Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge exlains why there's no point in appealing to the conscience of capitalists and the politicians that support them: They are slaves to a soul-less system: capital, whose only need is profit. You can read this piece here.  Image: economicshelp.org Read more

Van Jones in Portland

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  “Van Jones’ voice has become an integral part of our national political debate. He is one of the most provocative and interesting political figures in the country.”—Bernie Sanders, U.S. senator, Vermont As part of KBOO's Fall Membership Drive News and Public Affairs Day ... Read more

RALPH NADER! Citizen Action: It's Easier than We Think, Pt 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Overcoming adversity alone is a tough road to hoe but when you act with others it’s not as difficult. There is nothing like solidarity. There’s unity and strength in numbers. Most movements have very modest beginnings. Take women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a ha... Read more

"America: The Farewell Tour," live with Chris Hedges

Airs at: Wed, 09/12/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    "America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope ... Read more

Multnomah Neighborhood Appeals Middle Housing Policy

Produced for:  Evening News
  Oregon Law requires that municipalities maintain a comprehensive plan to manage growth. In Portland, this is called the Comprehensive or ‘Comp’ plan, and our most recent version took effect earlier this year. Now the Multnomah Neighborhood association is taking the city... Read more