Economy

Bill Resnick on the late Pete Seeger

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick offers some brief comments about Pete Seeger, addressing his past involvement with the Communist Party, but also his break from it and other advocacy. He points in the direction of worthwhile reads that go into more detail. Read more

Who Needs the Minimum Wage?

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Geoff McDonald and Peter Oxforn about the wage system. Geoff recently wrote an article for CounterPunch urging more critical questions about the wage system than exist in the minimum wage debate. This discussion builds on those arguments and takes iss... Read more

WRR: Education In The Age of Neo-Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on education in the age of neoliberalism. She outlines the historical transfers of power and responsibility for public education that have deformed the public university into a crass commercial project. From there she interrogates how thi... Read more

KBOO Receives Grant to Investigate ALEC Ties to Oregon Legislation

KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM has been awarded a five thousand dollar grant from the Fund For Investigative Journalism (FIJ) to conduct an investigation of Oregon legislation which has been influenced or created by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). With this... Read more

The NSA is an Apparatus of Class War

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads three articles on the national security state. The first by Gleen Greenwald appears in Common Dreams. The second, by Tom Dispatch, appears in Portside. The final one by Noam Chomsky appears in Salon. The collectively make the point that the nationa... Read more

Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome, Neoliberalism & Toxic Individualism

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads Chris Masiano's incisive take on the toxic individualism of neoliberalism and how it undermines our collective sensibilities. Published first in Jacobin as Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul, then in Salon as Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 20 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine ... Read more

WRR: Spotlight on Global Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick reads a Truth-Out article by Graham Peebles that puts the "spotlight on global inequality". Read more

Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Richard Smith on Chinese Environmentalism and Environmental Crises

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more