Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Occupy movement, how race figures into the economic crisis,  mobilizing in the black community and what the Occupy movement could learn from their history of organizing against the 1%.   Malik Mia is an airplane mechanic, but al... Read more

Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Jan Haaken, talk about the new drama-documentary "The Iron Lady", which looks at the life and political career of Margaret Thatcher (played by Meryl Streep) through her own nostalgic memories. They talk about her status as a powerful women again... Read more

Tom Becker reads the State of the Dream 2012 report from United For a Fair Economy: "The report examines trends across a variety of indicators including income, wealth, education, employment, health and incarceration. It finds that when the U.S. becomes a minority-majority ... Read more

Denise Morris host and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Rob Ritchie of Fair Vote Monday, starting out with Iowa's recent straw vote, how flawed it was as a democratic exercise, and how it would have been more meaningful if it had been done under a "ranked choice" ... Read more

How fair and democratic are "winner-take-all" elections?   Rob Ritchie is the director of Fair Vote, and in this conversation he and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick discuss how most elections work against third-party candidates and how elections could be get more voices into th... Read more

Mainstream gay organizations and the liberal media have spent millions campaigning for the end to "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the policy that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the US military.  Is that where the GLBT movement should be spending its money?  Deni... Read more

 Brad Manning, a young, gay soldier imprisoned and accused of giving classified information to Wikileaks, has been abandoned by the mainstream GLBT movement.  Why?  Is it because he shows exactly why the military is not a place gays should be trying to get equal access to? ... Read more

 Israel wants a war, but not with Iran, for that would lead to disaster.  It would rather fight the Palestinians in Gaza -- again -- but Hamas is depriving the Israelis of good reasons.  Uri Avnery explains how Hamas has stolen a war in this  blog post, read here by the Old... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole which focuses on how to make elections more democratic, the campaign for gays in the military, and Israel's plans for war.   Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ... Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about the music and future of Occupy. As the cold months drive people indoors, the music helps keep the movement alive, but also as Brad points out by the end the re-surgence in small-scale printing and ... Read more