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We discuss The Debt Ceiling Debacle and a recent Advance in Women's Health Legislation

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on Summer Vacation. Even in these days of shadow, we manage somehow to lurch toward enlightenment. Amid the unfolding debt debacle -- and the first-ever downgrade of U.S. credit -- the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced that al... Read more

The Propagandizing of America, Guest; Frances Fox Piven

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
A Murdoch owned newspaper in London has been forced to close in a scandal of dirty tricks and bribery. It was on another Murdoch outlet that Glen Beck was allowed to unleash a firestorm of hate mail, death threats, and dirty tricks against professor Frances Fox Piven. Th... Read more

Presswatch 7/14/2011

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell discusses Fukushima as well as the raising of the US debt limit. Read more

Buenos Aires: PressWatch/Theresa #6 & #7, to Aug 2

August 1 Winter weather finally arrived in time for the elections.  (Macri won the mayoral race in Buenos Aires, which is supposed to mean that people approve of his replacement of Federal cops with municipal ones...I think.)  They shut down a lot of government function... Read more

Abe dicusses the latest in the debt ceiling debacle... Farewell, American democracy. We hardly knew ye...

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Procctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation for the summer.   The triumph of the ruling class is at hand. With a vote in Washington looming, the America in which we have all grown up is primed for sacrifice on the altar of tax cuts and deficit reduction. Congressional R... Read more

Double Radical Musicologists: the music and message of the IWW

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Through-out the show we played clips from famous songs written by members of the Industrial Workers of the World who, as Utah Phillips liked to put it, stole the hymn songs because they were pretty and changed the words so they'd make more sense. In the end, our radical ... Read more

Well Read Red: structural adjustments come to the USA

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann takes on the idea that the United States is broke, reminds us of the ramification of the kind of spending-cuts being demanded in Washington, and the sort of demands we should be making for the massive wealth held by the ruling class. She suggests that resistance to... Read more

AT&T and Keeping Monopolies in Check with Labor not Market-Power

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe and Josh Eidelson discuss the nuts and bolts of the AT&T merger. Josh explains why we should have no illusions about AT&T being ideologically pro-union, but points out how opposition to the merger exclude industrial power from having a positive, responsible role in ... Read more

Marty Hart Landsberg on the "debt problem"

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Dr. Hart-Landsberg straight-forwardly explains the stakes of the federal government defaulting, the history of dealing with the debt-ceiling and how the whole issue is being used to further an ideological agenda that, he says, has been destructive of interests of the maj... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 1st

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts today's show and we hear: Bill Talks With Marty Hart-Landsberg about the debt-ceiling and the working-class. Joe talks with Josh Eidelson about the AT&T merger and why industrial labor power matters. Well Read Red, Frann Michel, talks about ... Read more