Economy

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Monopoly, Neoliberalism and the Economic Game

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red Clayton Morgaredige contrasts the boardgame monopoly and the game of really existing American capitalism. There are a couple of ways Monopology is not like capitalism: everyone starts out with the same resources and success is largely determined by strategy... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts   Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures".   Well-... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 21 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised).  Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new boo... Read more

Columbis Day Well-read Red: Frann Michel on repression and resistance in indigenous history

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red in honor of Indigenous People's Day. Being the Federal holiday known as "Columbus Day", she offers timely reflections on the repressed history of colonialism in the New World and mounting challenges from within education and organ... Read more

Well-read Red: Class War, Bourgeois Strategy, and Obamacare

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge brings us the Well-read Red. Today he considers resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the strategically mysterious though potentially disastrous empowerment of the radical right by capitalists. Read more

John James on hospital errors, profit-driven healthcare, and the 100,000s of deaths they cause

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with government toxicologist, John James, and author of A Sea of Broken Hearts, which tells the story of how his son died due to a hospital error. The event made James interested in hospital errors and ultimately in advocating against the way the profi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 14th

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which is about a third shorter than usual because of membership drive. We have taken the pitching segments out, but we encourage you to click the "donate today" button in the upper right hand corner and become a member today if you are not... Read more

Our Unequal Society

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sam Pizzigati is a labor journalist, the author of The Rich Don't Always Win, and editor of Too Much, a weekly newsletter about excess and inequality. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the latest reports on income inequality -- like the fact that a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 30 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole that, in addition to a discussion about the Syrian civil war and other mid-east conflicts, converges on a theme of social democracy under attack and the political stakes in its being defunded. Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensin... Read more

Food Stamps and Class Politics

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a short commentary about food stamps in terms of class warfare, and to that end as supporting the working-classes' capacity to organize and be organized to radical ends. Read more