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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective

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News, Views, Reviews, and Interviews

Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

The Old Mole burrows down to the roots of the great issues of our time – the struggles of ordinary people for democratic and sustainable ways of life. The Mole goes where corporate media fear to tread, supporting grassroots challenges to top-down authority and giving voice to movements that shake the foundations of an unjust society. The Moles' perspective is democratic, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist. We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater.

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement, and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.

You can leave comments for the Moles at oldmolevarietyhour @ gmail.com or by clicking on the comment section for any of our audio pieces.

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Organic Agriculture Can Feed The World

Airs at: Mon, 08/23/2010 at 12:00am

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Bill interviews Catherine Badgley about her research into the comparative outputs of organic and conventional agriculture. In an article she wrote with seven other colleagues, "Organic Agriculture and the Global Food Supply," she makes the case for organic agriculture feedi... Read more

Net Neutrality

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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The open roads on the Internet are in danger of being commandeered by the major media companies. Here Craig Aaron from the Free Press talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about Net Neutrality and the latest maneuvering by Google. Verizon, and the FCC. You can make your v... Read more

Native Perspectives on Sustainability

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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Dave Hall, environmental activist and PSU teacher, talks with Jan Haaken about his project, Native Perspectives on Sustainability. His earlier interview on this topic is here. Dave and Jan discuss how indigenous leaders understand the concepts and practices that can kee... Read more

Surviving the Politics of Terror

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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Psychoanalyst Nancy Hollander is the author of Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas, and she talks here with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about what psychanalysts in Latin America and the US are doing to help people understand how their personal p... Read more

The Scary Social Security Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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Once again, false predictions are being made about the "crisis" in funding our universal retirement program -- Social Security. Tom Becker reads from two pieces (here and here) by Dave Lindorff published in Counterpunch and The Smirking Chimp. Read more

The Military as a Jobs Program

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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"America's biggest -- and only major -- jobs program is the U.S. military....This is nuts," argues Robert Reich in this piece, read here by Joe Clement. Read more

August 16 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this program dealing with the fight to protect net neutrality from the big media corporations; understanding personal traumas in the context of the politics of terror; the fake crisis in Social Security; Native American thinking about sustainability; and t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 9th (incomplete)

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2010 at 12:00am

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The theme of today's show - hosted by Bill Resnick (on the left) - could aptly be called "South of the Border." Virtually all of the show turns its eyes to South American politics, but also the harsh realities of humanitarian aid. It features South American rebel-music by... Read more

No More Deaths!

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2010 at 12:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith. Sophie works with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization that tries to make sure no one dies in the deserts of the Mexican-American border, and stands by the motto: humanitarian aid is never a crime. She recounts her own experience i... Read more

Rise of South American Left Governments

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2010 at 12:00am

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Bill talks with Mark Weisbrot about radical South American politics and the new film he co-wrote with Oliver Stone, South of the Border. Mark has us look to South American populism, the empowerment of working-people over the claims of Capital and strengthening of the State ... Read more

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