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 Ge...
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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 ...
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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 analy...
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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
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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
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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. He ...
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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 discus...
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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 Snedeke...
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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 followed b...
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Thom Becker offers a reading from Nikos Kazantzakis about the 1917 Bolshevik
revolution.
Then Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the 1981 film
Reds, directed by Warren Beatty, which focuses on the story of American
journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant as ...
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