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Rent speculation and the selling (off) of Portland

Airs at: Wed, 01/23/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Looking at Portland’s economy as a microcosm of speculative capitalism is a great way to examine the extractive mechanisms of the real estate market. The most recent boom/bust cycle has completely divorced land value from land taxes and rental rates, and the rich seem... Read more

Movie Moles: Roma

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and new Movie Mole, Victoria Saucedo review Roma. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Roma has been at the center of much discussion and debate for it's fictionalized portrayal of Cuaron's middle class childhood with his mother and nanny at the center of the films sto... Read more

Green New Deal: a Green Party vision

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, New York gubinatorial candidate for the Green party, about the renewed political agitation for a Green New Deal within and without the party. Read more

White Supremacy and Capitalism: twin evils

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared the trifecta of racism, militarism and capitalism as the great problem facing humanity. Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge considers two of those, capitalism and racism, and how as dominant power structures they came to be through each other Read more

Capital Abandons Ship

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What if much of what we now call ‘neo-liberalism’ – deregulation, inequality, and massive transfers of wealth to the wealthy—is  really the result of the corporate elites having fully accepted the reality of catastrophic climate decades ago? Clayton Morgareidge explores thi... Read more

The Dream of Revolution: Robin Kelley

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In some ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered twice. First by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis and then by killing his revolutionary message. Today, King is largely remembered with special holiday sales. His vision of radical revolution muted. He posed a special t... Read more

Climate Change and System Change

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement reflects on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report saying we have a little over a decade to dramatically change every part of society to constrain global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade. Will a Green New Deal make a difference? Only, Joe argue... Read more

How Fascism Works: Jason Stanley

Airs at: Tue, 01/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
​ What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the ... Read more

Rebel in the Ranks: A Conversation with Brad Gregory

Airs at: Sun, 12/30/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Martin Luther may very well turn over in his grave if he was able to see what happened to what he started 500 years ago. The Reformation. Studying its effects is not just for religious people. According to Notre Dame Professor of European History, Brad Gregory, the very ... Read more

Whale Songs for Winter

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
UPDATE: The full show track is up on the episode page (with a little tagged from the previous show...scroll ahead a couple minutes) as well as the transcription of the narration and interview for those that would like it. I'm working on the finishing touches of the full con... Read more