This program aired originally on June 2, 2025
In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the
oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need
to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international ...
Read more
This program aired originally on May 12, 2025
While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a
warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning
historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries ...
Read more
This program aired originally on January 27, 2025
As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we
can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon
emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving cl...
Read more
Award winning writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper team up to breathe new
life into the 1980's film franchise The Toxic Avenger. Based on the
satirical movies, animated series, and stage play, The Toxic Avenger blasts
into the 21st century, armed only with his tut...
Read more
Nydia Caballero, union electrician, and Geovanny Tolentino, union teacher,
discuss what's behind Trump's mass deportation campaign, popular resistance
and the role of labor unions in this fight.
Read more
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the
following segments:
International Law and Lawlessness in the Middle East: In the leadup to a
United Nations conference in New York City to discuss Palestine and a
two-state solution, the Trump a...
Read more
Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new
era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He
argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted
their potential, they pose numerous threats t...
Read more
Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer
Prize for her political cartoons. Recently, she left the Washington Post
after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires
bowing down to Trump. Now Ann is at the center...
Read more
The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and
historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very
place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall
that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ...
Read more
This program originally aired on May 26, 2025
On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public
hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith
Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit
Zen...
Read more
