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Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

  1. 08/25/2025

    Global Stuff on the Ongoing Bombardment and Genocide in Gaze

    This podcast of Global Stuff brings back Stephen Zunes, author and expert on International issues, especially the Middle East and Israel and Palestine. In this live interview with call-ins, recorded on August 22, 2025, Dr. Zunes updates the situation in Gaza and the mounting death toll as Israel targets health care workers, journalists, children and civilians while withholding critical food supplies and other essential aid. Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he served as founding director of the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes has served as a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, and a contributing editor of Tikkun until June 2024. From May-June, 2024, Dr. Zunes served as the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    57 min

  2. 07/25/2025

    Global Stuff on the Devastating Situation in Gaza and Israel's Continued Aggression

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Kathy Kelly, board president of World Beyond War and a longtime prominent activist for peace, about the ongoing dire situation in Gaza. Kathy has frequently visited the region. She discusses the many thousands killed, the almost total destruction of habitable structures, the extreme starvation and, despite international efforts, the inability of the global community to provide relief. They also consider the emergency conference held in mid-July, when 30 nations met in Bogota, Colombia and all attending agreed that extreme measures must be taken by the international community to end the genocide and atrocities committed by Israel. Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.  From 2009 to 2019, her activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of US military bombardment and inmates of US prisons.  Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    58 min

  3. 06/27/2025

    Global Stuff on Stopping the Far Right Indoctrination of Young Men

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Craig A. Johnson, an author who documents and helps combat today’s global fascist resurgence. He hosts the Fifteen Minutes of Fascism podcast and new book, How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, tackles a huge and urgent issue: young men seduced by today’s massive online industry of far-right propaganda.  The book is at once a practical guide for parents, teachers and concerned others on the spread of fascism and how it has become the danger it is today. This is a live show with call-ins. Craig A. Johnson teaches in the history department at the University of California Berkeley, where he received his PhD in Latin American history. His areas of focus, in addition to Latin American history, are fascism and the Catholic Church, sometimes the intersection of all three. Johnson is also an independent journalist and host of the Fifteen Minutes of Fascism podcast. How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism is his first book. Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    59 min
  4. Global Stuff on Antisemitism as a Political Tool

    05/23/2025

    Global Stuff on Antisemitism as a Political Tool

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Ian Lustick, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, on how the Trump administration is using its assertion of antisemitism on college campuses and elsewhere as a means to push its political agenda. Jimmy and Ian discuss the definition of antisemitism: “Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish).” Criticizing or questioning the actions of Israel or the US policies towards Israel, Hamas or the situation in Gaza is not antisemitism. The conversation covers the many non-Jewish actors taking on the mantle of antisemitism, such as the Rachel Project from the Heritage Foundation, as well as the assault on universities using claims of antisemitism. The podcast also updates the current situation between Israel and Gaza and whether or not a lasting ceasefire can be achieved. Ian Lustick: Dr. Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania.  He teaches Middle Eastern politics, comparative politics, and computer modeling. He is a recipient of awards from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Sciences Research Council.  Before coming to Penn he taught for fifteen years at Dartmouth College and worked for one year in the Department of State. His present research focuses on the implications of the disappearance of the option of a negotiated “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and techniques of counterfactual forecasting. He is a past president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Israel Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Among his books are Arabs in the Jewish State (1980); For the Land and the Lord (1988, 1994); Unsettled States, Disputed Lands (1993); Trapped in the War on Terror (2006); and Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality  (2019). Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    59 min
  5. Global Stuff on What’s Next for the Democratic Party

    04/25/2025

    Global Stuff on What’s Next for the Democratic Party

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Sam Rosenthal, the political director at RootsAction.org, about the petition that they are circulating to insist that the Democratic Party hold an emergency meeting to forge a forceful direction forward. Sam and Jimmy discuss many aspects of the current political atmosphere, including the regressive policies of the Democratic Party in the wake of the 2024 elections. They also talk about the numerous extreme anti-democratic and destructive actions of the Trump administration in its early days, including attacks on the judiciary, on education, and on civil rights,many of them clearly unconstitutional and/or illegal. Sam Rosenthal is the political director at RootsAction and serves on the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Electoral Committee. He was formerly a staffer at Our Revolution and lives in Washington, D.C. He previously served as the political director at Our Revolution. RootsAction is circulating a petition insisting that the Democratic Party The petition reads: “The Democratic Party has failed to confront the urgency of this perilous moment for the future of the United States, as reflected in recent public opinion polls. For the sake of the future, we insist that the Democratic National Committee should convene an emergency meeting of all its members – fully open to the public – as soon as possible. Waiting until the next regular meeting in late summer would be irresponsible and unacceptable. Business as usual must give way to truly bold action that mobilizes against the autocracy that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies are further entrenching every day. The predatory, extreme and dictatorial actions of the Trump administration call for an all-out commensurate response, which so far has been terribly lacking from the Democratic Party. It is time for the Democratic National Committee, as the organization tasked with responding to the concerns of Democrats, to heed the insights of progressive policy analysts and grassroots activists – and that should begin at this emergency meeting.” Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    1 hr

  6. 04/17/2025

    How Evil Can Recruit and Drive Group Actions

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Elizabeth Minnick about the expanded reissue edition of her book: The Evil of Banality, On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking,originally published in 2017. Her scholarship is founded in her early work as an assistant to Hannah Arendt, a transformational philosopher on the nature of evil. Jimmy and Elizabeth have an in depth, engaging discussion of how intensive evil, the abhorrent actions of one or a few individuals, differs from extensive evil, the extreme actions by a large group of people, basically the actions of a mass shooter compared to the holocaust or Rwandan genocides. The conversation covers how “normal” people and communities become involved in mass killings or other acts of violence. Elizabeth’s book also considers intensive and extensive good, how people can overcome the push to commit horrendous acts and do what’s right. This is an especially relevant conversation considering the forces at play in the country and the world today. Elizabeth Minnick Elizabeth Minnich received her doctorate from the New School under the direction of Hannah Arendt. Following twenty- five years as a Core Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Union Institute she was a professor of moral philosophy at Queens University. Minnick is a Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, DC. She is also the author of Transforming Knowledge (Temple University Press, 1990, 2005) and co-author of The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett- Koehler, 2005). She continues to work on issues of justice, equality, democracy, and education, with particular focus on inclusive, engaged scholarship, curricula, teaching, and institutional practices. Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    59 min

  7. 04/17/2025

    Israeli Destruction of Gaza and the US supply of Weapons

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Jennifer Lowenstein who lived with her parents in Israel as a child. Loewenstein is a member of the USA board of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and founder of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. Jennifer clearly describes the devastation of Gaza and the determination of its residents in the midst of the rubble. She gives a perspective on the prospects for a continuing ceasefire and a possible path to the end of the war. The discussion also covers the support that the US gives to the Netanyahu government and how this perpetuates the conflict. Jennifer Loewenstein is a journalist and activist, a member of the USA board of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and founder of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. She lived in Israel in 1963 as a child when her father played first trumpet in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She returned in 1981 as a junior in college, and later as an adult. Loewenstein has lived in Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and traveled in the Palestinian Territories, where she worked for five months in 2002 at the Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza City. She has returned to Gaza several times since then. As a local political activist, Lowenstein has helped organize demonstrations in Madison. On the day after Ariel Sharon's election as Prime Minister of Israel, she was among the organizers of an anti-Likud demonstration. She helped organize protests against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, and she occasionally makes arrangements for political activists or journalists to speak at American universities. Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

    1 hr
  8. White Supremacist Infiltration of the FBI and Law Enforcement

    02/28/2025

    White Supremacist Infiltration of the FBI and Law Enforcement

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Mike German, a former special agent with the FBI and a fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, about the issues he raises in his new book: Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within. This live interview, recorded days after the inauguration of President Trump, details the right-leaning trend of the FBI and law enforcement in general, including members of white supremacist groups and a relative acceptance of crimes committed by far right extremists while victimizing mostly peaceful actions by demonstrators on the left. With Kash Patel as the new head of the FBI, the gutting of federal agencies by Elon Musk and the general tendency of the Trump Administration to downplay hate crimes and oppose racial justice movements, this very timely show presages what is now federal policy and the even more extreme support for white supremacy that can be expected in the current political climate. Mike German is a fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in conducting the fight against terrorism. A former special agent with the FBI, his work focuses on law enforcement and intelligence oversight and reform. Before joining the Brennan Center in 2014, German served as the policy counsel for national security and privacy for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office.

    1 hr
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Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

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  • Creator
    KMUD Podcasts
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
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    © 2024
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    KMUD - Global Stuff