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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. JAN 24

    Global Stuff: Jimmy Durchslag with Norman Solomon on “The Blue Road to Trump Hell”

    On this podcast of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Norman Solomon, an author, activist and political strategist. Norman returns to discuss how we got to the current state of affairs in our nation and our government. His latest book, THE BLUE ROAD TO TRUMP HELL: How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy is a compilation of articles written over the last 10 years that traces the path to the elections of Donald Trump and how the Democrats have enabled this eventuality by failing to support Bernie Sanders and other progressive leaders within their own party who promote policies that will improve the lives of most Americans, not just the wealthy elite. Norman Solomon is IPA’s executive director (accuracy.org). He is the author of twelve books, including War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine and War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, and with Reese Ehrlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Norman is also the co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. and a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. A frequent guest on television and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent documentary Buying the War and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media Education Foundation. Solomon is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language. Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk show for over 25 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.

    58 min

  2. 12/27/2025

    Global Stuff on the 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.

    57 min

  3. 11/23/2025

    Global Stuff on Burned by Billionaires, How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and the Planet

    On this podcast episode of Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag brings back Chuck Collins, the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, to discuss his latest book: Burned by Billionaires, How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and the Planet. Chuck gives a very clear outline of the various tiers of wealth and the many ways those at the very top, that small group that controls most of the country’s wealth, impact every aspect of our daily lives. The power of their assets and their never ending push for more and more damages the climate, health care, social services, racial justice, elections and much more. Chuck emphasizes the urgent need to act now to counteract their rapaciousness and save our Democracy and the planet. Chuck Collins is a campaigner, researcher and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs, and co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of over ten nonfiction books about economic inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, affordable housing and the racial wealth divide, including Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home and Committing to the Common Good. He is co-author, with Bill Gates, Sr., of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes. Chuck lives outside Brattleboro, Vermont. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.

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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 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
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