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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 26, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  For today's show the Moles bring you an episode from our archive, which originally aired on July 14, 2014. Hosted by Frann Michel, the Moles explore debates over left strategies. The show includes musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music... Read more

David Korten - "Our Planetary Existential Crisis"

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Our planet and humankind are in danger. The warnings coming from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not be more unambiguous. He says we are heading towards an unlivable world. We are on a fast track to climate disaster. Major cities under water. Unprecedented he... Read more

Better (too) late than never?

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Over the past several decades, numerous target dates or time frames have been put forward as the point where we MUST start reducing or already have reduced fossil fuel emissions by X amount or face irreversible, possibly cataclysmic consequences. "By the year 2000, by 20... Read more

When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine

  A serious, but not too serious, discussion of the realities of sustainable living. bluerockstation.podbean.com Read more

The National Security Tour

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Miriam Pemberton about her new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies. Pemberton has studied the U.S. military economy and the means of shrinking it down to size for decades, first as Director of the National C... Read more

Paul Stanford, Cannabis Activist

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Times Like Now
  Paul Stanford is likely the most influential cannabis activist you've never heard of. He helped Jack Herer research and write the first edition of, The Emperor Wears No Clothes in 1985. He helped draft Oregon Ballot Measure 80, which eventually lead to Oregon legalizing... Read more

Keeping Democracy Alive

  Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen is a bi-weekly podcast that tackles a wide range of today's social, economic, and political issues. Democracy is not a spectator sport, it requires informed participating citizens. On Keeping Democracy Alive, we delve into dynamics... Read more

To decolonize is to demilitarize: think globally, act locally!

Airs at: Wed, 08/31/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Continuing with our focus on militarization, climate change and the movement for global justice, today we turn our attention to the role of the U.S. military in the Pacific Northwest. Without the United States military, this region would still be Indigenous territory as ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 29, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: The New Pink Tide in Latin America: What is it? What can it hope to accomplish? For Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond interviews Alex Diamond, a sociology grad student at UT, who’s... Read more

Inflation Reduction Act

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act— it should be called the Climate Action Act— has been characterized by reputable folks as transformative, which is not an exaggeration. But transformative to what? Will it be corporate America’s vison of the clean energy future, with continui... Read more