Old Mole Variety Hour

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the

following segments: 

Pax Silica: For the global economy to function and allow corporate profiteers

to continue making money, there needs to be an unfettered flow of raw

materials and energy. Tha...

For the global economy to function and allow corporate profiteers to continue

making money, there needs to be an unfettered flow of raw materials and

energy. That’s been thedriving force behind a US led multi-national

initiative called Pax Silica, to make sure that the g...

We feature excerpts from a March 2026 talk by the Portland-based West

Bisayana Filipino-American hip-hop artist Talilo Marfil as part of WSU

Vancouver's DocArts Series. A creative producer, and youth advocate, whose

music blends traditional hip-hop with Filipino cultural...

In Magellan, the latest feature by Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz, Gael García

Bernal plays the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, 

famous for his project of circumnavigating the globe.  This gorgeous film

rejects the conventions of mainstream commercia...

Elites, especially in tech, in recent years have overtly espoused the

repugnant idea that extreme social inequality is not only inevitable but

desirable. Acclaimed historian Kim Phillips-Fein argues that there is a long

US tradition promoting wealth inequality that ha...

Artemesia reports on the historical loss of sea otters from the Oregon coast

and how the indigenous-founded Elakha Alliance  is working to return sea

otters to habitats they once called home.

 

image: Elakha logo design by Ken and Dave Hatch, showing a sea otter in

...

Big business and other moneyed interests have been funding anti-progressive

campaigns in Portland this election season, and journalist Jeremiah Hayden

has been reporting on it for the Portland Mercury, in articles like the

recent "Money Talks. It Also Lies" and "Follo...

Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: 

Money in Portland Politics:  Big business and other moneyed interests have

been funding anti-progressive campaigns in Portland this election season, and

journalist Jeremiah Hayden has been reporting on it for the P...

Your Two Cents: Laurie Mercier speaks with Devin Ruiz of the Next Up Action

Fund and Jim Labbe from Participatory Budgeting Oregon about the Your 2

Cents Ballot Measure 26-267 on this month’s ballot for Portland voters.

They discuss the principles of participatory budget...

As public anxieties mount over AI and the data centers built to power this

technology, Democrats have put forward proposals for new laws to regulate the

industry. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker look

at existing federal regulatory agencies t...