Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Larry Bowlden warns us away from the best-selling novel by Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife, and corrects the mistaken idea that he never reviews books he doesn't like.  You can read more of his reviews here. Read more

 Nationally known journalist Arum Gupta has visited over 30 Occupy sites in more than 20 states around the country, and he reports here in conversation with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier where the movement stands and where it may be headed.  Gupta is a founding editor of th... Read more

 A few weeks ago, British public employees mounted the biggest general strike  since the 1920s.  Why have we seen nothing like that from unions in the US?  Joe Clement introduces and then comments on what labor journalist Mike Elk had to say about this question.  Read more

The system that puts food on our tables is broken and corrupt.  The Food Chain Workers’ Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food.  In this conversation with director Joann Lo,... Read more

On the eve of the Great Port Shutdown, Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with local activist and organizer Dustin Hawk about why the Occupy folks plan to close down the Port of Portland.   Read more

 Everyone has seen the 1946 Christmas classic Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, but have you ever really thought about it?  What is its message about banking, money, property, and community?  Our Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken will get... Read more

 Atheists are among the least trusted groups in the US, according to a recent study, and in this essay "Why Are  People Still Afraid of Atheism" Tom Jacobs explores the reasons why.  The Old Mole's Tom Becker reads it for us.   Read more

Jim Cook is engaged in a struggle to save the U.S. Postal Service from a crisis that may bring it down and leave all our mail in the hands of private corporations.  Here he talks with Bill Resnick about why the crisis is a fake and what needs to be done about it.  Jim is Pr... Read more

 Bill Resnick is our host today with live coverage of the West Coast port shutdowns.  Bill talks with activists on the scene here in Portland and in Oakland.  Also on the show, the Movie Moles take us back in time to the politics of It's A Wonderful Life, Tom Becker reads a... Read more

In the midst of the successful closures of the Ports of Oakland and Portland, Bill Resnick talks live with two activists on the scene -- Betty Olson Jones, an Oakland public school teacher, and Dustin Hawk in Portland. Read more