KMUD - Global Stuff
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.
Episodes
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 th...
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...
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 w...
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 civilia...
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 st...
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 Y...
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...
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 ...
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 hav...
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...
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 ...
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 Dec. 27, 2024,
Dr. Zunes discusses the recent overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime
in Syria by the rebel fundamentalist Hayat Tahir al Sham (HTS) group.
The end of the over 50 year authorita...
This podcast of Global Stuff features a discussion with Colleen Rowley,
retired FBI agent, about the background and potential actions by
Trump’s initial cabinet appointees, especially in the area of security and
intelligence. In this live interview with call-ins, recorded on Nov. 22,
2024, Colleen, explains the very real threats to the rights and security of
Americans represented by Marco Rub...
This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on October 25, 2024. In the first half,
host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Teddy Wilson, a journalist, researcher, and
consultant on the U.S. radical right. Teddy exposes the America First Legal
Foundation’s plans to undermine the election if Trump loses. AFLF advances a
legal theory that would allow judges to throw out results over “failures or
irregula...
This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on September 23, 2024. Jimmy talks
with Robert Creamer, longtime activist and political organizer, about his latest
book: Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success. Robert takes
his several decades’ long experience in running successful election campaigns to
outline a clear, precise, time-tested methodology for how to motivate pro...
This podcast of Global Stuff features two guests. In the first half, Jeff
Cohen, media critic, writer and journalism professor who led the
Rootsaction.org campaign, “Don’t Run Joe” to convince Joe Biden to
drop out of the presidential race, discusses the impact of his exit. He
also provides a perspective on the challenges facing Kamela Harris and
the dynamics of the upcoming election. In the ...
This podcast of Global Stuff brings back Stephen Zunes, author and expert on International issues, especially the Middle East and Israel and Palestine. Dr. Zunes discusses the situation in Gaza and how Biden’s policies continue to support Israel’s ongoing military actions. He also considers how Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race and the ascendency of Kamala Harris might affect...
This podcast of Global Stuff features two guests, recorded live on April
26, 2024. Planned Parenthood’s mission has always been to protect
health care, education, and reproductive freedom. They have
continued to provide quality services even when faced with ongoing
threats and challenges. Since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision, their
work has never been more vital, or more determined, even in...
This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded live on May 24, 2024. Jimmy
talks with Ken Grossinger about his latest book: Art Works: How
Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together (July 2023,
New Press). The book describes the multiple ways in which artists and
activists and artists have collaborated in the past and continue to do so
today to support actions for racial justice, ...
Michael Zweig is the emeritus professor of economics and founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a lifelong activist and advocate for building a country that quote “treats its workers with respect, opposes war, conserves a healthy natural environment, and defeats the many forms of white supremacy and patria...
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