Economy

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WRR: Education In The Age of Neo-Liberalism

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on education in the age of neoliberalism. She outlines the historical transfers of power and responsibility for public education that have deformed the public university into a crass commercial project. From there she interrogates how thi... Read more

KBOO Receives Grant to Investigate ALEC Ties to Oregon Legislation

KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM has been awarded a five thousand dollar grant from the Fund For Investigative Journalism (FIJ) to conduct an investigation of Oregon legislation which has been influenced or created by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  With this... Read more

The NSA is an Apparatus of Class War

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads three articles on the national security state. The first by Gleen Greenwald appears in Common Dreams. The second, by Tom Dispatch, appears in Portside. The final one by Noam Chomsky appears in Salon. The collectively make the point that the nationa... Read more

Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome, Neoliberalism & Toxic Individualism

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads Chris Masiano's incisive take on the toxic individualism of neoliberalism and how it undermines our collective sensibilities. Published first in Jacobin as Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul, then in Salon as Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 20 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill talk with Richard Smith about Chinese pollution and the challenges for their environmental movement Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about five radical reforms he proposed this month in Rollingstone Magazine ... Read more

WRR: Spotlight on Global Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick reads a Truth-Out article by Graham Peebles that puts the "spotlight on global inequality". Read more

Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Richard Smith on Chinese Environmentalism and Environmental Crises

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the havoc that Chinese development has wreaked on the people and environment within Chinese borders, and what that means in the context of global capitalism and increasingly global ecological crises. Read more

Executive Branch Tries to Fast-Track TPP Through Congress

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Rachel Bennett spoke to Alisa Simmons, Field Director for Public Citizen's World Trade Watch, about President Obama's attempts to fast-track approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress, despite the dearth of even sure Democratic support for the proced... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more