Old Mole Variety Hour November 23rd 2015

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Air date: 
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Middle East, Syria, ISIS, Barbarisms, Paris attacks, Xenophobia, islamophobia, Bernie Sanders, Socia


Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes
  • Bill Resnick and Stephen Zunes discuss Syria and the Clash of Barbarisms, now intensifying, and how it can be avoided. Stephen Zunes Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. An international relations scholar, Zunes specializes in Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. http://stephenzunes.org/
  • Denise Morris Looks at media commentary following Bernie Sanders recent speech on Socialism. 
  • Desiree Hellegers interviews Kayse Jama, founder and executive director of the Portland-based Center for Intercultural Organizing, about the xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the Paris attacks.
  • Tom Becker presents the Article We are in Pitiless Times written by VIJAY PRASHAD For Open Democracy a “independent, public interest, not-for-profit; a counter to the corporate media” Vijay Prashad, teaches at Trinity College, is the author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South and editor of Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation – both from Verso Books. From The article “After Paris, macho language about “pitiless war” defines the contours of leadership. Little else is on offer. It is red meat to our emotions.” 
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