Pilotless aircraft -- drones -- controlled by "pilots" in California are dropping bombs on targets in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. What's the impact on the ground? On the operators? Kathy Kelley of Voices for Creative Nonviloence talks with Bill Resnick. Kelley was among the 14 people recently arrested, protesting at Creech Airforce Base.
A good society taxes its wealthiest members to invest in infrastructure and services for all. At least that was the consensus fifty years ago, but now the wealthy pay lower taxes than the rest of us.
Chuck Collins from the Institute of Policy Studies talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what our society needs and how to pay for it. Collins is the author of the pamphlet Reversing the Great Tax Shift: Seven Steps to Finance Our Economic Recovery Fairly, available here.
Gobi Rahimi is a director and producer of films and music videos, and was a friend and colleague of Tupac Shakur. He is author of Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Shakur in Pictures and Words . Here he talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about Tupac's life and music.
This show features music by and an interview about Tupac Shakur. Also discussed are: reclaiming the consensus that the richest folks should pay the most for the government services everyone needs; how details of the Easter story (crucifixion and resurrection) run parallel to much earlier myths; and protesting the drones operated from California to rain destruction in the middle east.
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