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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 26, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: “Anti-woke” legislation and the response: In at least 15 states, GOP officials have passed educational gag orders prohibiting classroom conversations about race, racism, and LGBTQ is... Read more

War and peace and real human needs

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Jeff Faux, founder of the Economic Policy Institute and author of the Servant Economy and the Global Class War, about how the gargantuan US military budget and the new Cold War are exacerbating inequalities and climate catastrophe and how the Amer... Read more

Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Throughout history, mankind has dammed rivers at the cost of wild fish, Indigenous peoples, forested land, and healthy watersheds. Adding to the havoc of today’s climate-change-induced weather extremes and water shortages, science says there’s no future for the business of ... Read more

Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos, Physicists Warn

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
  The impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated. Discuss.   https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-feasibly-descend-into-chaos-physicists-warn?fbclid=IwAR37fWuQKf0qtT-CVT1vy... Read more

Barbra Weber Reports on UN's International Plastics Treaty Negotiations in Paris

Airs at: Thu, 06/15/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa is live in the studio with Barbra Weber, a founder of Hazelnut Grove, Trash for Peace, and the Groundscore Association. Barbra just got back from Paris, France where she was part of the UN's International Plastics Treaty Negotiations. Before that, on March 1, she was i... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 19, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Juneteenth image by breefulmelange, public domain, courtesy of Pixaby: https://pixabay.com/users/breefulmelange-16833170/ Patricia Kullberg hosts this Juneteenth episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Juneteenth, George Floyd and Black Resistanc... Read more

Saber-rattling with China

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Several top military officials are predicting that mutual U.S. and China provocations by warships and fighter planes on and over the South China Sea especially near Taiwan will devolve into full scale war within the next two years. And U.S./China conflicts, now know known a... Read more

Listen to Youth

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In recent years it’s becoming more and more obvious that youth are the real leaders of the climate movement. And for good reason, because they are the ones that are going to live with the climate mess that previous generations have created. During the May Rumble on the Rive... Read more

The Global Overdose Crisis

Airs at: Wed, 05/31/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: The Global Overdose Crisis. The Seventy-Sixth World Health Assembly was held recently in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the side events at this year’s Assembly, UNAIDS and the Open Society Foundation hosted a discussion entitled “Responding to the ... Read more

Mobilized News

  A weekly series produced by Steven Jay and hosted by Jeff Van Treese, Mobilized takes a deep look at our world, the consequences of human activity on our planet, and how we can reverse and prevent existing and future crises from occurring. Mobilized reveals life on our p... Read more