Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Joe Clement hosts this show in which we see more  efforts to sell us on policies born of fear: the sting operation resulting in the arrest in Portland of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the so-called "Christmas Tree Bomber"; stripping us of our dignity in airports with scanners ... Read more

 Drawing on sources from the Left Press, Well-read Red Frann Michel analyzes the weird convergence of political  opposition to "enhanced screening" procedures being instituted at airports, and shows how the understandings of Left and Right differ.   The text of Frann's p... Read more

Nate Harrison narrates an impressive history of the use and dissemination of the "Amen Break," a 6-second drum solo in the middle of the Winston's 1969 hit, "Amen Brother." As the Amen Break became re-appropriated through eletronic sampling, its story stands as a testeme... Read more

Bill talks with Dr. Andrew Wilper about the relationship between poverty and healthcare, and how it even affects those with insurance. Dr. Wilper is an internist with Cambridge Health Alliance and a fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more

 Ken Ingham is a writer, and in the early '90s responded to NPR's MarketPlace Report challenge to suggest ways to kick-start the economy. Ken's brief response was about building a maintenance economy through market mechanisms. In this essay that he wrote later, he expand... Read more

 Bill Resnick Talks with Jane Slaughter, co-founder of Labor Notes a Workers Movement journal. Bill and Jane talk about the General Motors bailout, the new contracts that cut new employee wages literally in half, and the potential to create a green industry in mass-trans... Read more

Today's show, hosted by Denise Morris, features interviews about poverty & healthcare, the General Motors bailout, a commentary about building a maintenance economy, and a brief history of the world's most important 6-second drum-loop.   For information about our theme m... Read more

Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb review Cool It, a documentary about Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish economist and environmentalist.  Lomborg does not deny global warming, but urges a more measured and adaptive response to it while refuting some of the more catastrophic p... Read more

 The US government provides  spends more on subsidies for the wealthy than it does on aid to the poor, and almost as much as it spends on the the military.   This op-ed by David R. Francis, read here by Tom Becker, explains how public policy widens the growing gap betwee... Read more

  Activists in Vermont are working to get their State to enact a single-payer health plan.  Bill Resnick talks with activist Traven Leyshon, a member of the Vermont Workers' Center.  Leyshon also broadcasts on Equal Time Radio in Vermont.   Read more