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Hey sports fans! The Olympics, and other sports, are good things!

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on Vacation.   As longtime listeners know, Abe sometimes waxes poetic about soccer. And when he does, he gets a generous helping of grief from listeners. But in the midst of theOlympic Games -- and after one of the greatest soccer matc... Read more

Movie Moles: Heist - who stole the American Dream?

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel and Hyung Name review "Heist: who stole the American Dream." Directed Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Tom Hartman, based in part on the book "The Global Class-War: how Amerian's bi-partisan elite lost our future and what it'll take to win." H... Read more

Well-read Red: Do They Owe Us A Living? 'Course they do, 'course they do!

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads Peter Frase's case against the assumption of wage-labor in both capitalism and market-socialist visions of a fucture economy. Frase argues for a universal basic income, explaining why it would more directly address the problems with wage-labor, make it mor... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 6th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
New Mole, Iven Hale, hosts today's show. We hear about the Arab Spring, the politics of work and basic income, and a movie review of "Heist".   Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing about the the Arab Spring. Joe Clement reads a blog-post by sociologist Peter Fras... Read more

Heist and other movies about the financial crisis

On the 6 August 2012 Old Mole Variety Hour, Hyung Nam and I discuss Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, a documentary directed by Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Thom Hartmann, and based in part on the book The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan ... Read more

Syria

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng talks about Syria and takes listener calls Read more

David McNally on Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with David McNally about his book Global Slump, which analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. McNally argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole per... Read more

Cameron Whitten Ends Hunger Strike

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Housing Rights activist and Former Mayoral Candidate Cameron Whitten announced the end to his hunger strike today, after fifty-five days of abstaining from solid foods. The strike will officially end tomorrow morning at ten o’clock, when he will hold a press con... Read more

Movie Moles on The Dark Knight Rises

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Dark Knight Ruses: Joe Clement and Iven Hale discuss the failure of Christopher Nolan's latest Batman film to live up to the rumors about its representation of the Occupy Movement, and how the film instead rationalizes a police state, and bears closer comparison to ... Read more

Jules Boykoff on Corporatizing the Olympics

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Jules Boykoff, a former Olympic athlete, current Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific University, and author of the forthcoming book Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Press).... Read more