Thom Becker

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Thom Becker

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 18, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Today on the Old Mole: Bill Resnick interviews Dena Floberg of Free Press on Net Neutrality.  Denise Morris reviews an article by Paul Street entitled What's Not Happening with Mr. Jones (the newly elected senator from Alabama).  Tom Becker reads excerpts from The U.S. Is... Read more

Net Neutrality

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Dena Floberg on how to regain rules that require openness to all who wish to offer their ideas, to maintain free speech protections for what now has become our most important public space, the Worldwide Web, AKA the Internet. Dena Floberg is an an... Read more

What's Not Happening With Mr. Jones

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Denise Morris reviews an article in Counterpunch by Paul Street: What's Not Happening with Mr. Jones. Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the recent Alabamian senatorial race. As Street argues, it’s not much of a victory.   Graphic by Jake Mapping2015 via Wikimedia Commons Read more

The US is not a Democracy, It Never Was

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Tom Becker shares exceprts from  The US is Not a Democracy, It Never Was by Gabriel Rockhill, philosopher, activist and professor at Villanova University.   Graphic by CityGypsy11 Read more

Sexual Harrassment and the #MeToo Campaign

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about feminist politics, sexual harassment and the #MeToo campaign. They take up different feminist positions on the problem of harassment and how to respond to the issue as a symptom of this historical period.  Gentile is Professor of... Read more

The Republican Tax Bill

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with economist John Miller about the tax bill the Republican's are pushing in the Senate. Will it boost the economy? No, says Miller.   John Miller is a professor of economics at Wheaton College and is a writer and editor at Dollars & Sense. ... Read more

Trump at the Border

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Mike Snedeker of the Old Mole’s Left and the Law Series interviews Jim Smith, founder of the first immigration law clinic in the country at UC Davis. He now litigates on behalf of Central American refugees who will be killed if sent back to where they came from. They dis... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 27, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Tom Becker hosts this week's issue of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. John Miller of Dollars & Sense discusses the Republican tax plan with Bill Resnick; 2. Desiree Hellegers and Frann Michel explain the budget battle at Washingto State University; 3. Attorneys Mike Snede... Read more

Pursuit of Happiness

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Is happiness, the pursuit of which is enshrined as an inalienable human right in the Declaration of Independence, truly possible as the general human condition? Or is the quest for happiness merely a never ending cycle of desire, possible temporary fulfillment followe... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 16, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Thom Becker hosts this episode, which features these segments: Bill Resnick interviews Bayla Ostrach about Catalonian independence from Spain  Movie Moles review Reds (1981) about the October 1917 Revolution Thom shares comments on Climate Change and Capitalism Listen... Read more