Economy

Well-read Red: Trans-Pacific Partnership

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, points out that there are a lot of things that won't get discussed in the presidential debates because both of the major candidates actually agree on them. After a litany of silent pacts, including Iran, campaign contributions, ignoring global w... Read more

Peter Rachleff, labor historian, on NFL Referee Lockout

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Peter Rachleff discuss the NFL referee lockout and dispute over pensions vs. 401K. Peter explains the difference between pensions and 401K plans, the missed opportunity to speak out the working-class, connecting workplace with consumer-activism. Peter Rac... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 1st 2012

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2012 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole and we hear about the NFL referee lockout, the Trans Pacific Partnership, and organizing the working-class against imperial war. Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Peter Rachleff about the NFL referee lockout. Frann Mic... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 24 September 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode and reads a selection from the work of Chris Hedges about the implications of environmental and economic collapse. Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau of Why Hunger? about how neoliberalism contributes to hunger and organic agric... Read more

Global Collapse, American Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads from an essay on the collapse of the environment and economy by Chris Hedges, Why the Revolution must Start in America. Read more

Hunger and Agroecology

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, Outreach and Partnerships Coordinator for the Global Movements Program of Why Hunger?. They discuss how the problem of hunger is affected by long-standing issues of commodity speculation, demand for biofuels, so-called fre... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale hosts this show and we hear about the Chicago Teachers Strike, Cuban reform and policies, a book review of Barbara King Solver's "Lacuna" and a movie-review of Branded. Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about top-down and bottom-up socialism in Cuba ... Read more

Movie Moles: Branded

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the conspiratorial and at times surreal science fiction film, Branded, written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Alexsandr Dulerayn. Set in mostly present day post-soviet Russia, Branded is about how Misha Galkin (played by Ed Stoppard)... Read more

Well-read Red: Chicago Teachers Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

With a brief introduction by Iven Hale, Well-read Red Frann Michel offers an array of analyses about the real stakes of the Chicago Teacher's Strike. She presents arguments that defend the teachers union as fighting a rank-and-file organized campaign against neoliberal edu... Read more

Sam Farber: finding socialism from below in Cuba

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about Cuba and assessing its achievements, failures and status as a socialist country. Samuel Farber is a native of Cuba and a scholar about Cuba's history and politics. He's teaches at Brooklyn College in New York and is the author of ... Read more