Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about hope in hard times, about the
opportunities given to us by the disastrous times we live in.
This show is part of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, offering you the
opportunity to support the station that sustains the Old Mole, alon...
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Activist and author Ted Glick talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about
what can be done and what is being done to prevent our climate crisis from
turning catastrophic. There is some good news here. Ted Glick is the
policy director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Ne...
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Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among
volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of
production. You can read her remarks by clicking here.
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor
Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade
unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book
The Looting of America: How Wall Street's...
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Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past. Bill Resnick
talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap
for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first analy...
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Bill Black, a former bank regulator, has been writing about financial fraud
in high places at least sine the S&L scandal in the early '90s. His book
about that is The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One:
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He...
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is the
title of a new book by longtime civil rights advocate and litigator,
Michelle Alexander. In this episode of the Old Mole's The Left and the Law,
attorney Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken sum up and discu...
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Is Goldman Sachs "little better than a criminal enterprise that earns its
billions by bilking the market, the government, and even its own clients in a
bewildering variety of complex financial scams"? Or is "Goldman guilty of
[nothing] except being "too smart" and really,...
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Novelist Ian McEwan is able "to display clearly how brilliant
accomplishment in one area of a life can be, and very often is, combined with
absurd ineptness (or worse) in other areas." Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden
discusses McEwan's new novel Solar about a man whose person...
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Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes
unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being
black. We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the
snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry; a...
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