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KBOO Noon News 112715

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tune in every weekday at five for more local, national and international news produced by volunteer reporters in our Portland studios. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 2, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts and we hear these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews philosopher Rebecca Gordon about Syria peace talks. Tom Becker reads about Capitalism and Sustainable Development Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Prison Reform Denise Morris and Bill Resnick expl... Read more

Rebecca Gordon on Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Rebecca Gordon on the negotiations -- including Russia and Iran -- to find a path toward stopping the killing in Syria. Will this be a model for reconstructing the middle east? Not if the U.S. continues to support Saudi Arabia and its insistence on d... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 23, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks about war in Syria and the clash of barbarisms, with Stephen Zunes Desiree Hellegers talks about the xenophobic backlash against refugees, with Kayse Jama Denise Morris reads some media commenta... Read more

Reading: We Are Living In Pitiliess Times

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads an article about the Paris attacks called "We Are Living In Pitiliess Times", by Vajay Prashad through Open Democracy. Read more

Kayse Jama on Xenophobia and the Backlash against Refugees

Airs at: Wed, 11/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a November 19 interview conducted in the offices of the Portland-based Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO), Desiree Hellegers speaks with Kayse Jama, founder and executive director of the CIO, about the xenophobic backlash in the wake of the Paris attacks.  Read more

Stephen Zunes on the Clash of Barbarisms

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the war in Syria and how it could provoke a far larger war. Stephen Zunes (from his website) is "Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as coordinator of the program in... Read more

Snowden by Ted Rall - Expanded Edition

Airs at: Thu, 10/08/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
In this expanded, web-exclusive edition of Words and Pictures, we spend an extra half-hour talking with Ted Rall about his new graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Drawing from Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well as friends, colle... Read more

The Psychology of Mass Shootings

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After a mass shooting claimed ten lives this morning at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, President Obama adressed the nation with visible frustration, saying, "[Thoughts and prayers do] not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel, and it does noth... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more