Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Are mass protests and elections enough to block the slide toward authoritarianism? Labor scholar and organizer Eric Blanc argues that neither will suffice without exerting leverage on the key pillars of Trump’s support. He discusses how a multi-level campaign against ... Read more

    In their Left & the Law segment this month, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker survey the ravaged terrain of international, national and local law under Trump 2.0. They take up areas where the courts have blocked the Trump regime's use of the National Guard and where pop... Read more

  Laurie Mercier speaks with Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about recent protests in Iran, the continuing US/Israel genocide in Gaza, and US imperialism/colonialism.    Links:   “Iran’s ... Read more

  Lawless America: Iran, Gaza, US Colonialism, Law under Trump, Frann Michel hosts:  Zunes on Iran, Gaza, Colonialism:  Laurie Mercier speaks with Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about rece... Read more

  The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have been the first to condemn the state terror campaign currently inflicted on our immigrant communities. Surely he would ha... Read more

When "Superman", the latest film adaptation of our iconic superhero, was released earlier this year, right-wing commentators maligned it for being too politicized. In response, Andrew Slack and Jose Antonio Vargas published a piece, which appeared in the Hollywood Report... Read more

Luisa Martinez speaks with immigration lawyer and activist Daniel Kanstroom about the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents of current US immigration policy, the racialization of immigration enforcement, and immigration policy through the lense... Read more

  Nuclear deceptions, domestic terrorism, and the poetry of the long struggle: Frann Michel hosts this episode featuring these segments:  Nuclear Bamboozles:   While the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 provided increased federal funding for n... Read more

  Criticizing Capitalism : Since the global financial crisis, and even more over the last five years, capitalism’s popularity has fallen, while the fortunes of the capitalist class have risen steeply. Polls show that a majority of people under forty, of any political af... Read more

Earlier this year, as discussed on a previous episode of the Old Mole, the Welcome Home Coalition, in partnership with Sisters of the Road, released their report, Finding Home: Lasting Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise, which surveyed and consulted those with lived... Read more