Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:
Media Watch: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? US Guardian correspondent and activist Rebecca Solnit argues that the corporate media is hellbent on fashioning the Democratic Party and its candidate Joe Biden into a loser, with potentially disastrous consequences for the future of democracy in this country. Our Well Read Red Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts from Solnit’s opinion piece published July 6, 2024 in The Guardian. Solnit is the author of many books including Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Her full article can be read at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit
War and Climate Change: Laurie Mercier speaks with Neta C Crawford about militarism and climate crisis. Crawford is the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the University of Oxford and is co-founder and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University She is author of numerous publications including the recent The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions (MIT Press) and Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars.
Summer Olympics: Desiree Hellegers speaks with Jules Boykoff, who writes copiously about the Olympic Games as a celebration of capitalism. They discuss the upcoming summer games beginning in Paris this month.
(in my sleep i dreamed this poem )
Someone I loved once gave me
A box full of darkness
It took me years to understand,
That this, too, was a gift.
—Mary Oliver
Oliver's poem is an apt description of the 2019 dark and brooding memoir by Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game; My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, reviewed by Book Mole, Larry Bowlden.
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