Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Bill Resnick talks to Carla Frisch who worked for ten years in the U.S. Dept. of Energy before going to the Rocky Mountain Institute to help cities develop and implement radical climate action plans. They discuss the Biden/Harris Plan, which is the most sweeping action p... Read more

  Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Puzzle Women, by Anna Ellory. A mother attempts again and again to save herself and her two children from her abusive husband, running finally from West Gemany to East Germany before the fall of the wall. She sends notes from the past ... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg speaks with Dr. Anushka Shenoy, a physician-in-training in psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University and a leader of the newly established OHSU House Officers Union. They discuss the punishing working conditions of physicians-in-training (also kno... Read more

  Sharon Grant, a community health educator for Multnomah County Health Dept, reads from an article printed in the Middletown Press (CT) on June 21, 2020, titled "Racial unrest, disease, depression: 1919 versus 2020." The article draws parallels to the social. political an... Read more

Norm Diamond and Patricia Kullberg discuss the role of ordinary citizens in mounting successful challenges to the junk science deployed by fossil fuel corporations to promote their climate-killing mega-projects in the Pacific Northwest. Patricia Kullberg is an activist and ... Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:   World Trade Organization: Norm Diamond reflects on the mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle twenty-one years ago today.   Citizen Scientists: Norm Diamond... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:    Rebuilding the Left in the US: Bill Resnick interviews Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder/editor of Jacobin, about what the left can do to push the Biden Administration over the next year to address working peo... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts the show today, which includes the following segments: What is to be Done? Bill Resnick speaks with David Dayen, the editor of the  American Prospect, a bi-monthly magazine on U.S. Politics.  They discuss the many opportunities President-elect Bide... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Now What? Bill Resnick interviews John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. They discuss what a Biden Administration might do on the great issues of our day if mightily ... Read more

Norm Diamond hosts this episode of Old Mole which includes the following segments: How to Stop an Autocrat: Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes about stopping ambitious or desperate autocrats and dictators from stealing elections. They discuss how civil resistance throug... Read more