KMUD - Global Stuff

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 face
of increasing external pressures. Planned Parenthood of Northern
California is the umbrella organization for 20 counties in the state. In
this episode, I speak with Gilda Gonzales, President and CEO of Planned
Parenthood Northern California, and Anna Meldrum, Interim Regional
Center Director for the northern region. Together they supervise 18
health clinics in 20 northern California counties. They join me to discuss
the services they provide, who is eligible, how their work has adapted
since the Supreme Court decision and how they see reproductive rights
issues unfolding in the months ahead, including the potential impact on
the upcoming crucial fall elections.

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.

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 Secretary of State, Pete
Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National
Intelligence, John Ratcliff as CIA Director and others. As a leader in
Women against Military Madness she also talks about the
organization’s involvement in bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Special Agent (ret.) Coleen Rowley served in the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for 24 years, during which time she worked in several
offices, including those in Nebraska, Mississippi, New York, France and
Montreal.
She also served as the Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who taught
Constitutional Law and law enforcement ethics to FBI agents and other
law enforcement agencies. She then became a whistleblower about the
FBI’s pre 9-11 failures, testifying to the Joint Intelligence Committee
Inquiry, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Inspector General Staff
of the Department of Justice. She was named, along with two other
corporate whistleblowers, as Time Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the
Year. In an early March 2003 memorandum, she warned FBI Director

Robert Mueller about the Bush Administration’s deceptive plan to
launch war on Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the 9-11
attacks.
She holds a B.A. in French from Wartburg College and a law degree
from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and
CNN.com. In 2002, she received the Sam Adams Award – given annually
to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and
ethics.
She is a long-time member of Women Against Military Madness and
Veterans for Peace and is most recently affiliated with the Eisenhower
Media Network
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.

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.

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.

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 rule by the al-Assad family
brings major changes to the region with impact throughout the region
and the world. Among the issues discussed are the involvement of
Israel, the Biden administration’s continued support for Israel’s ongoing
military actions, the involvement of US weapons manufacturers, the
ongoing conflict in Gaza, the history of US support for repressive
regimes and related issues.

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.