Economy

Book Talk: Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Peter Frase talk about Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, originally published in 1952. The story of Player Piano is set not too long after WWII, and is about social anxieties and alienation in class society in the shadow of the machines that replace... Read more

Movie Moles: Snowpiercer

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and Iven Hale review the film, Snowpiercer, currently playing in Portland at the not-for profit Hollywood theater, and available as video-on-demand for home viewing. Loosely based on a French graphic novel of the same title, and co-written by Kelly Masterson a... Read more

Beyond Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge argues for why we need to "learn to see passed liberalism" and why "we must join and form and nurture political organizations that aim at transforming the capitalist and militarist system of power, which now governs our lives." He does this after admitti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This episode of the Old Mole is hosted by Frann Michel, and features discussions of uses and misuses of media representations--of Gaza (including failures of the mainstream media and the power of visual images), of public education (including misleading stories about charte... Read more

Juan Cole on Gaza

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with historian and Middle-East specialist Juan Cole about current events in Gaza. They discuss Israel's motives in launching its attack, and the history of Israel's occupation of Palestine, attacks on Hamas, and expansion of settlements in the West Bank... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 14 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below: Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left perspec... Read more

well-read red: Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequality?

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads from a recent Counterpunch article, "Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?" by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 7 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Peter Hart about his writing on media revisionism, scapegoating, and the Iraq War. Bill Resnick and Arun Gupta discuss the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and its implications for further class struggle. Clayt... Read more

Well-read Red: public austerity & private profits

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, continues a theme he spoke about a few weeks ago concerning "stagnant capitalism" and connects it to a recent Jacobin article by Richard Seymour. Seymour's article critiques an article in the popular magainze, The Economist, for pandering... Read more

The $15 Minimum Wage And The Fight Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how the $15 minimum wage ordinance that was recently passed by the City Council in Seattle came to be. Arun points out how people are agitated by the bank-bailouts, the role played by Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant's electio... Read more