KMUD - Global Stuff

In this week's sports report, Ray Hamill brings us details of this week's District Little League All-Star tournaments, as well as all the latest on the Humboldt Crabs, how the Humboldt County teams fared in this week's Northern Hukmboldt Giants American Legion baseball tournament, who College of the Redwoods will honor at this summer's annual dinner and auction sports fundraiser, and why it was a...

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...

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 ru...

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...

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 suppli...

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 effor...

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 onc...

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, prejud...

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...

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...

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 ru...

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 t...

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 authoritarian...

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 Rubio as...

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 irregularitie...

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 progressi...

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 seco...

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 US polici...

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 the...

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, immig...

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 patriarchy that...

Joshua Landis is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He recently wrote the article that appeared in “Responsible Statecraft”: “US troops should have left Syria and Iraq long ago”. While Congress and the World focus on the wars between Israel and Hamas and Ukraine and Russia, less attention is focused on the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Joshua grew up i...

Abba Solomon is the author of two books on Zionism, The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel and The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein’s Speech "The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews." During this interview, recorded on November 24, 2023, Jimmy Durchslag and Abba discuss his recent article “Endangered and Dangerous Israel, Endangering Jews” and how the Israeli response to the Hama...