Economy

Old Mole Variety Hour March 11th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear about Hugo Chavez and Venuzuela, the new drug-war action film Snitch, wage-slavery and republican visions of liberty, and space warfare.Bill Resnick talks with Michael Fox about Hugo Chavez and what's next for Veneuzalans.Jan Haake... Read more

Hugo Chavez is Dead! Long Live The Revolution!

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with Michael Fox, a freelance journalist and documentary film-maker, about the death of Hugo Chavez and the future of popular movements and socialism in Venezuela. They consider the charges of authoritarianism, on the one hand, and the vibrancy of Venezue... Read more

A Republican Critique of Wage-Slavery?

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am

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Today words like "republican" or "independence" or "liberty" are likely to conjure ideas about the freedom of business, right to work laws, and the aggrandizement of owner-entrepreneurs. Joe Clement interviews Alex Gourevitch's about his recent article for Jacobin Magazine ... Read more

Illahee 2013 Lecture Series: Broadcast in its entirety on KBOO!

KBOO Community Radio is proud to broadcast all 2013 Illahee lectures. Who influences, controls, and owns other key aspects of our lives: what we eat, the information we access, the environment, our own finances, and our politicians? In short, who owns us? And what can we ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 25, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am

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Alan Wieder hosts this episode, featuring music from David Rovics as well as an interview with him, a discussion of the economics and politics of mass incarceration, a review of a recent comic novel, and a commentary on the ideology of austerity. Bill Resnick talks with D... Read more

Well-Read Red: Austerity is About Ideology, Not Economics

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker shares Alex Himmelfarb's essay about The Trouble with Austerity: Cutting Is More About Ideology than Economics. Read more

David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am

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Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enhanci... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 18th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale hosts this President's Day episode. Please note that an unforseen glitch in the recording clipped the first 30 or so seconds from the beginning. Once it can be recovered it will be re-inserted. All that was lost was the intro-music and some of Iven's opening rem... Read more

Movie Mole: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement talks with Jason Read about psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fiennes philosophical documentary: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. This is the second film Zizek and Fiennes have made together, the first being The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Both f... Read more

Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am

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Alan Wieder talks with Marcia Meyers, founder of Rethinking Psychiatry. They discuss the organization and it's mission to educate people about the diversity of ways to deal with emotional disturbances, as well as interrogate the money-making and exploitive motivations behin... Read more