Award winning writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper team up to breathe new
life into the 1980's film franchise The Toxic Avenger. Based on the
satirical movies, animated series, and stage play, The Toxic Avenger blasts
into the 21st century, armed only with his tut...
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Nydia Caballero, union electrician, and Geovanny Tolentino, union teacher,
discuss what's behind Trump's mass deportation campaign, popular resistance
and the role of labor unions in this fight.
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the
following segments:
International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East: In the leadup to a
United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a
two-state solution, the Trump a...
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Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new
era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He
argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted
their potential, they pose numerous threats t...
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Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer
Prize for her political cartoons. Recently, she left the Washington Post
after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires
bowing down to Trump. Now Ann is at the center...
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The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and
historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very
place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall
that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ...
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This program originally aired on May 26, 2025
On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public
hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith
Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit
Zen...
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The Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686) would create a funding system
where social media mega-companies pay local media outlets for the content
they use. The hope is that systems like this will slow the downward spiral of
local newsrooms. The guests are, in the fir...
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In recognition of the recent passing of media scholar and progressive
journalist Robert McChesney (1952-2025), we share archive audio of McChesney
talking in 2013 with Bill Resnick about his still-timely book Digital
Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet ...
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On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public
hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith
Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit
Zenith needs to expand its dangerous fuel facility in No...
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