Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it will include: A report on student resistance to austerity measures in Greece; A look back at "The Spook Who Sat At the Door," a 1973 satirical film about black revolution; Commentary on the bour... Read more

 As the Supreme Court takes up "Obamacare," Andrew Riley of the Center for Intercultural Organizing talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what that law does and fail to do to improve access to health care.  They also take up Governor Kitzhaber's program for Oregon... Read more

 Eric Mankowski, Professor of Psychology at Portland State, was in Athens at the height of student protests last fall against government austerity measures that are destroying jobs and educational opportunities.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about the hig... Read more

In these times of renewed efforts to build communities of protest, Frann Michel looks back to a film about serious revolution -- "The Spook Who Sat By the Door." Made in 1973, it imagines a black revolution led by a former CIA agent. You can read this review here, where ... Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole which features discussions of healthcare reform, protests in Greece, a film about black revolution, and a commentary on the invisibility of poverty. To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To hear individu... Read more

 Why is it so easy to forget, or deny, that a hundred million Americans are poor or near-poor?  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge suggests it's because our consumer culture represents us all as willing and able buyers of commodities.   You can read this commentary ... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which will include -- Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the role of psychology in the military; Jan is is the director of Mind Zone, a film about the work of psychologists with troops in Afghanistan.  Jan was recent... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with local activist Michael Moore (not the documentary film-maker) about Governor Kitzhaber's new healthcare plan, community care organizations (CCOs) and the on-going struggle for single-payer or something like it. Michael Moore works with Sisters of... Read more

Tom Becker reads Valerie Tarico's Alter-Net article "15 Ways the Bible is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women". Tarico examines over a dozen ways that the Bible subtends a misogynistic and patriarchical rationale that conservatives are using to fue... Read more

 Larry Bowlden, our Book Mole, reviews Penelope Lively's new book, "How It All Began.". Larry focuses on the web of causation triggered by a chance mugging of one of the characters and the way these developments eschew any independent force or directive guiding our lives... Read more