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Old Mole Variety Hour August 4 2014`

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode. Musical selections were from: Dead Prez "Police State", Mischief Brew "Free Radical Radio Fever", Killing Capitalism with Kindness "Lost Train", and Beastie Boys "Sabotage". The following links are to the individual segments. The whole sho... Read more

Book Talk: Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Peter Frase talk about Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, originally published in 1952. The story of Player Piano is set not too long after WWII, and is about social anxieties and alienation in class society in the shadow of the machines that repl... Read more

Movie Moles: Snowpiercer

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and Iven Hale review the film, Snowpiercer, currently playing in Portland at the not-for profit Hollywood theater, and available as video-on-demand for home viewing. Loosely based on a French graphic novel of the same title, and co-written by Kelly Masterso... Read more

Beyond Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge argues for why we need to "learn to see passed liberalism" and why "we must join and form and nurture political organizations that aim at transforming the capitalist and militarist system of power, which now governs our lives." He does this after admi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This episode of the Old Mole is hosted by Frann Michel, and features discussions of uses and misuses of media representations--of Gaza (including failures of the mainstream media and the power of visual images), of public education (including misleading stories about cha... Read more

Juan Cole on Gaza

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with historian and Middle-East specialist Juan Cole about current events in Gaza. They discuss Israel's motives in launching its attack, and the history of Israel's occupation of Palestine, attacks on Hamas, and expansion of settlements in the West B... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 14 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
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This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below: Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left persp... Read more

well-read red: Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequality?

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from a recent Counterpunch article, "Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?" by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 7 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War. Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its implications for further class struggle. Cla... Read more

Well-read Red: public austerity & private profits

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, continues a theme he spoke about a few weeks ago concerning "stagnant capitalism" and connects it to a recent Jacobin article by Richard Seymour. Seymour's article critiques an article in the popular magainze, The Economist, for pander... Read more