Frann Michel hosts the show which includes:
Media Landscape: Frann Michel reflects on the state of contemporary media.
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State: Bill
Resnick interviews Norman Solomon about the US warfare state of today.
When God ...
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Bill Resnick’s guest on today’s Old Mole is Norman Solomon, and it’s
worth reflecting on the value of Solomon’s work in the current media
landscape.
Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting (FAIR), which produces the rad...
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KBOO alum Norman Solomon talks with Bill Resnick about US militarism
(especially now the continued NATO encirclement of Russia), who it benefits,
and how it can be stopped.
Solomon is the author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with
America’s Warfare State
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When God Was a Rabbit, by Sarah Winman, is a refreshing view of life through
the eyes of a ten year old girl , innocently irreverent and certainly wise
beyond her (our) years. Read it for joy.
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resources:
Self-care checklist
Mental Health Resources
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I’ve been thinking lately of our current era as the not-so-great
depression. The one back in the 1930s? That was Great. That was a Great
Depression. And there were great protests, l...
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(Frann Michel for the Old Mole Variety Hour March 11, 2019; School Strike
image by Leonhard Lenz [CC0])
Young climate activists have called for a one-day school strike on March
15th. Earth Strike, as it’s also called, is expected to be the largest yet
of these events...
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Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the 2015 Broadway musical, Hamilton. One
of the most popular cultural phenomena of the last few years, they
interrogate its universal praise. They consider the problems with its Great
Man of history take on American history, how Hamilton'...
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Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments:
Bill Resnick talks with Alex Zielinski, news editor of the Portland Mercury,
about Portland policing.
Desiree Hellegers reports with audio from last month’s community info
session on Portland’s involvement in the Joi...
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Dan Jaffee speaks with Alejandro Queral, Executive Director of the Oregon
Center for Public Policy, about the legacy of fiscal austerity in Oregon, and
the possibilities for raising substantial new corporate tax revenue in the
2019 state legislative session.
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Bill Resnick talks with labor lawyer Jay Youngdahl about his article on
"Bolstering Retirement Security" in the Fall 2018 issue of New Labor Forum.
They discuss the loss of defined benefit pensions and the need to keep
defending Social Security.
public domain image f...
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