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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 13, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Left and the Law: Since spring of 2025, it has...
Attack on Higher Ed
Desiree Hellegers reads from her July 3 commentary in Counterpunch magazine “Academic Gaslighting and Administrative Bloat Be Gone!” about u...
The Left and the Law
Since spring of 2025, it has seemed that the pro-Palestine protests on campuses across the country had been resoundingly defeated. The large...
Old Mole Variety Hour for July 6, 2026
Sugar may seem like a natural, almost eternal substance, cultivated over thousands of years. But it was remade by capitalism and turned into...
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 29, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Trillions for the Military-Industrial-Congressi...
Trump’s New Ally in Colombia
In an extremely close race, hard right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella was just elected as Colombia’s new president. Norm Diamond speaks...
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 22, 2026
AI, the Media, and the Billionaire Class The Trump administration has exposed the enormous power, as well as astounding wealth, of the billi...
The Hidden History of Juneteenth
This week marks the celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery, a federal holiday known as Juneteenth. Trump would ra...
Queer Pride, the Quiet (Trans) and the Loud (Drag)
This Pride Month, it is important to march in solidarity with a movement that carries liberatory potential for all of us. At the same time,...
The World Cup
Desiree Hellegers talks with Jules Boykoff, Professor of Politics and Government, prolific writer and commentator, and former professional s...
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Hidden History of Juneteenth: This week mar...
PSU Laboring for Education and Academic Freedom
Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Professor of English at Portland State University and president of the PSU American Associ...
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 8, 2026
Frann Michel hosts this episode which includes these segments: PSU: Laboring for Education and Freedom Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knigh...
Left and the Law: Meta Indecencies
In their Left & the Law segment this month, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up two recent civil suits against Meta and discuss the legal s...
Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2026
Jon Nelson hosts this rebroadcast from Against the Grain. Capitalism has generated vast amounts of wealth by spreading around the world. But...
Movie Mole: The Voice of Hind Rajab
Frann Michel reviews the docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) about the Red Crescent response during the January 2024 killing of Hind Ra...
Old Mole Variety Hour for May 25, 2026
Desiree Hellegers hosts this Memorial Day episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour, which features the following segments: The Voice of Hind Raj...
Matt Witt Reviews The Soldier's House by Helen Benedict
The Soldier’s House: Oregon writer and photographer Matt Witt, author of the book, Make Holidays Your Own, reviews a new novel, The Soldier’...
Silent Voices
Silent Voices: Playwright Donna Hayes, whose 17-year-old grandson Quanice “Moose” Hayes was killed by Portland police in 2017, and her colla...