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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 27, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Gun Control Remains Elusive: Calls for legislative action in response to the endless waves of mass shootings in the US tend to target access to weapons for mentally disturbed people ... Read more

Gun Control Remains Elusive

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Calls for legislative action in response to the endless waves of mass shootings in the US tend to focus on mental health issues rather than the gun industry. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker look at the history of protections from immunity grant... Read more

Do We Have a Choice?

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Led by Governor Ronald DeSantis the Florida legislature enacted the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” that forbids teaching “the state-sanctioned racism that is critical race theory,” and subjects any accurate exploration of racial issues to harsh punishments. The Florida school system, ... Read more

Fracked Gas Industry Takes a Page from the Tobacco Industry

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Recently the city of Eugene passed an ordinance to phase out gas appliances in new homes and buildings. This action follows similar ordinaces in cities around the country. But the fracked gas industry is not taking these moves lying down. Last November, NW Natural hired Dr.... Read more

FBI up to its old tricks, with guest Trevor Aaronson

Airs at: Wed, 02/22/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Trevor Aaronson, is the host of the "Alphabet Boys" podcast, which " reveals the secret investigations of the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies." Aaronson was on Democracy Now recently, talking about the first episode of the podcast, about t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 20, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On this episode of The Old Mole we rebroadcast Du Bois on Race and Class hosted by CS Soong for Against the Grain. ATG is a syndicated radio program about progressive and radical theory and activism on KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley Ca. Originally aired on February 14, ... Read more

The Compassion Club Model

Airs at: Wed, 02/15/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Compassion Clubs and Safe Supply – part two of our conversation with Eris Nyx from the Drug User Liberation Front in Vancouver, BC. Read more

Nightmare on the River

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When you drive along Highway 30 through the industrial area of NW Portland, you witness an amazing contradiction. On the west side of the highway is Forest Park, Portland's premiere urban wilderness area. But on the east of the highway you see potential doom. That six mile ... Read more

Unlocking The Gates

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline: Unlocking the Gates – a conversation with Doctor Heather Palis, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, at the BC Centre for Disease Control, and BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, ... Read more

Two Topics: 1) How Real Is Our Democracy? 2) Who is This Ruben Gallego

Airs at: Thu, 02/09/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Keeping Democracy Alive
  Is the United States a merely a procedural, but not a substantive democracy? On part one, Franklin and Marshall history professor Van Gosse asks: What are the factors that makes us lack a more actual democracy? And on part two, The Nation's national affairs correspondent... Read more