War/Peace

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Old Mole Variety Hour June 20th

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts today's Old Mole Variety Hour, and we hear:     Bill and Brian Terrell talk about drone warfare. Larry Bowlden reviews "The Bad Girl" by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa Jan and Frann talk about the film, "The Beginners" Bill talks ... Read more

Matthew Fox on the Pope's War

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Matthew Fox, a Roman Catholic liberation theorlogian, was silenced by the church but he refused to stay silent. In his latest book, The Pope's War, he discusses the new Inquisition of Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Bnedict. We also talk about the suspicious death of John Paul... Read more

Mike Gravel on Government Secrecy and the Pentagon Papers

Airs at: Wed, 06/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving Today's Guest is MIKE GRAVEL, former two-term senator from Alaska, speaking on the hypocrisy of the US government's move to make the complete Pentagon Papers collection available to the public. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to t... Read more

Welcome to the Machine. The USA PATRIOT Act has been renewed for another four years.

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris.   The surveillance state ushered in under the reign of Bush the Younger was given a bipartisan imprimatur in late May when the USA PATRIOT Act was renewed for another four years. Warrantless wiretaps? You bet. Illegal searches of perso... Read more

War on Drugs: failures, misconceptions and alternatives.

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill and Sanho talk about the reasons why the war on drugs has failed to curb abuse while defying empirical evidence about usage. More importantly, Sanho points out, the Drug Warriors fails to grasp why some people use drugs and why most others don't: the lack of means to l... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 6th

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today show, hosted by Joe Clement, features discussions about the war on drugs, medicare for all, a tribute to Helen Keller, a commentary on animal resistance and a piece imploring that the Obama administration denounce its commitment to carbon fuels. For information about ... Read more

Poet Kazim Ali

Airs at: Fri, 06/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Kazim Ali -- poet, essayist and Oberlin College professor -- discusses his latest book, Fasting for Ramadan. For more information about the book, check out: http://www.tupelopress.org/books/fasting. Read more

WikiLeaks & Guantanamo; What Can We Learn?

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Guest: Andy Worthington; WikiLeaks media partner and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories Of The 774 Detainee's Locked In America's Illegal Prison. On April 24th WikiLeaks released thousands of pages of classified military documents from Guantanamo. What can we learn... Read more

Bob Chenowith, former prisoner of war in Hanoi, pt 2: Experiences in prison

Airs at: Fri, 05/20/2011 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Host Marvin Simmons of Northwest Vets for Peace interviews Bob Chenoweth who was a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five years and a member of the Peace Committee while in prison. Members of the Peace Committee were deeply affected by their combat experiences and as a result re... Read more

May 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this program with segments on the Middle East, right-wing attacks on Disability and Social Security, the IMF, and the Catholic Church's explanation of its own sins.   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also ... Read more