Economy

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Obama and McCain on the Economy

Airs at: Sun, 06/15/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Where do John McCain and Barack Obama  stand on issues affecting jobs, health care, and income inequality?  Economist Arthur MacEwan talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick  about what's wrong with the economy, what needs to be done, and how likely the main presidential cont... Read more

Jim Hightower interview: "Jim Hightower interview"

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Jim Hightower interview What's happened to the family farm? Bankruptcies, broken hearts, families and homes destroyed, and suicides to name a few. This interview was facilitated by KBOO's Marliese Franklin, in an interview with radio personality Jim Hightower:   Read more

Carol Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Food"

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Carol Adams is the author of "Sexual Politics of Meat." draws a correlation  between meat based diet and patriarchy.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 9, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 06/08/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today's show features, for the second time, the music of Portland band Pink Martini and concludes with a discussion of the implicit politics of their work.   Also discussed on the show are world hunger and the cost of food, the relations between being queer and being an imm... Read more

Ending Hunger

Airs at: Sun, 06/08/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On a planet where two billion people are already hungry, an additional 100 million will be plunged into poverty because of the world-wide food crisis.  Deborah James, Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research, talks with Bill Resnick about the reasons for this and... Read more

Radiozine on 6/05/08

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Per Fagereng interviews John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He'll talk about his latest book, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption, an exposé of international corruption — and wha... Read more

British Media Reveals US Plan to Occupy Iraq Indefinitely

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A British newspaper revealed today that Bush is secretly brokering a deal to continue US military occupation of Iraq indefinitely. KBOO’s jacob anderson-minshall has more:   Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 2, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This program, hosted by Denise Morris, has musical breaks from Pink Martini and features a  discussion with Thomas Lauderdale, the band's co-founder.   We also hear from widely-published writer Michael T. Klare about oil and its potential to provoke wars in the future; a re... Read more

Wars for Oil?

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-known author and scholar Michael Klare talks with Bill Resnick about Oil: scarcity, increasing demand, and the arms race developing around competition for  it.  Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is locat... Read more

Joe and Abe Talk Radio - May 27

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2008 at 5:00pm
Host Joe Uris brings a variety of topics to the table today, including the controversial LNG Terminals in Oregon, the Presidential Race, and the Columbia River Crossing. Our conservative friend James is declared KBOO's official Rush [Limbaugh] Reporter, inspiring some list... Read more