Jan Haaken talks with attorney and author Grace Nosek about her Ava of the
Gaia trilogy--a hopeful climate fantasy series featuring a young female
heroine. Nosek is a founding member of the University of British Columbia
Climate Hub and carries out research on how to confro...
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Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated
Christmas story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Originally aired on NBC in
1964, the GE-sponsored classic tells the story of two misfits and their
eventual acceptance by Santa and his elves. But a dee...
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Laurie Mercier hosts the Episode of the Old Mole which includes:
Ecological Revolution: John Foster teaches at the University of Oregon,
writes a lot including The Robbery of Nature and the Return of Nature. He
edits the journal Monthly Review, making it into a go to sou...
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Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made
against great odds because the film makers were black listed by the Hollywood
establishment. According to Wikipedia,
The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and
polit...
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Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Jan Haaken discuss the classic 1954 film made
against great odds because the film makers were black-listed by the Hollywood
establishment. According to Wikipedia,
The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and
polit...
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Host Norm Diamond talks with historian Raymond Caballero about
Caballero's new book McCarthyism vs Clinton Jencks, as well as more about
"Salt of the Earth," the film reviewed in the previous segment of today's
show. Clinton Jencks was a decorated war hero who adopted as hi...
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Laurie Mercier hosts this Old Mole, which includes:
Brian Willson: Nicaragua and the Lies They Tell Us: Laurie speaks to S. Brian
Willson about his antiwar activism, his recent book Don’t Thank Me for My
Service, and his recent reporting on the attempted US coup in Nicaragu...
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Clayton Morgareidge shows how some philosophers reduce the world to the
totality of facts and regard all feelings as subjective with nothing to say
about reality. Capital goes even further, reducing all value to the value of
money.
You can read this commentary here. Howev...
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Host Laurie Mercier talks with S. Brian Willson about his antiwar activism,
his recent book Don’t Thank Me for My Service, and his recent reporting on
the attempted US coup in Nicaragua.
Willson is co-editor of the 2019 Alliance for Global Justice
publication, Live from Ni...
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Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the HBO
miniseries Chernobyl and some responses to it. While there has
been widespread praise for the aesthetics and emotional impact of the
drama, and many appreciate its allegorical message about climate
catastrophe, ...
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