Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, comments on the spectacle of electoral politics, the presidency itself, and how voting is over-rated as a form of social action when so much that matters is decided, when addressed at all, by other means and to other ends. The presidentia... Read more

Tom Becker reads "War By Drones and Special Forces: inviting the big pay-back", by Dave Lindorff. In it Dave argues that drone technology has made it easier to swallow the prospect for war, while unwittingly giving other countries not only the incentive, but a renewed tacti... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with PC Peri about the history of the 22nd Annual Cascade Festival of African Films, how the films are selected, the importance of the (neither cynical nor romantic) view of African life they bring to audiences and what's left in the last two weeks of its r... Read more

 Tom Becker hosts today Old Mole and we hear about the war drums being beat over Iran, the kabuki theatrics of electoral politics, a cold war waged with drones, and about the African Film Festival.  Thanks to all you folks who called in to support KBOO and the Old Mole!  If... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge will host this show, which includes -- Bill Resnick talks with Gar Alperowitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism, about the emerging democratic institutions, like worker-owned businesses, that could point the way to a more democratic and egalitari... Read more

 Noam Chomsky said of America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperowitz that it provides "concrete and feasible ways to reverse the ominous course of the past several decades and to open the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy that can satisfy human needs, not l... Read more

 Politicians have been turning more public services over to profit-making corporations.  In this conversation with Joe Clement, journalist Mike Konczal goes into the dangers of privatization for democracy.  Konczal is the author of "The Privatization Trap" recently publishe... Read more

Well-read Red Frann Michel locates the recent news about the Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood in the "larger wave of neoliberalism."  You can read her comments with links to her soures here.     Read more

  Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this show has good news and bad news from the economic justice front.  The good news: according to Gar Alperowitz, more people than ever are working for and being served by non-capitalistic enterprises, from worker-owned coops to publically ... Read more

Iven Hale reviews Colson Whitehead's 1999 novel, "The Intuitionist." Set in a big city during a period of racial integration,Whitehead and Iven both explore the racial implications of the elevator as a metaphor for "social-uplift", the black female protagonist who is the fi... Read more