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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine (NY). As well as having been a regular political columnist on several national websites for over 20 years, he is the author/co-author/editor/co- OpEd News Member for 719 week(s) and 5 day(s) 605 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 174 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Tuesday, April 23, 20242024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' book, "The 15% Solution," Chapter 4 This column presents Chapter 4/Section 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022." It is from the most recent printing (the third), in 2013. The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 4, is entitled "30th Amend. to the Constitution of the United States (2002)." Series: "The 15% Solution:" A Retrospective View of U.S. History: from 2048 (5 Articles, 3354 views) 
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Friday, April 19, 2024The "Seven Magic Tricks." Hey, Don, How they Doin' for Ya Now?" In past columns (all referenced in the text below), written over several years, I have described and discussed his use of his six (then Seven) "Magic Tricks," in dealing with various issues that have risen for him. This column takes a look at how he is using them in his present predicament(s), and how indeed they are failing him.
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Monday, April 15, 20242024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 3 - The Real Drug War This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 3, is entitled "The Real Drug War." Series: "The 15% Solution:" A Retrospective View of U.S. History: from 2048 (5 Articles, 3354 views)
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Friday, April 12, 2024For the U.S., 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No." Last week I published a column entitled: "In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No." This one, also commenting on the phrase, "It's Just Like 1939," being used by a number of commentators who are dealing with the threat to U.S. Constitutional Democracy posed by the Trump/Heritage-Foundation/Project-2025, central to current Repub. doctrine. Indeed, back then, even with the Repubs., it was Right-wing, but different.
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Monday, April 8, 20242024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 2 This column presents Section 1, Chapter 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "Setting the Stage," and this Chapter, 1, is entitled "The United States in 1995: Setting the Stage for Fascism." Series: "The 15% Solution:" A Retrospective View of U.S. History: from 2048 (5 Articles, 3354 views)
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Friday, April 5, 2024"In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939'." Well, no. It is being said by certain authorities that the situation in Europe, and in the U. S., is "like 1939." This column is the first of two-parter dealing with that matter. This one is about Europe/1939, especially Eastern Europe. Indeed, what is going on there, beginning with Russia's War on Ukraine, has nothing in common with the situation in 1939. Next week we shall discuss "The U.S. in 1939." Indeed, there are similarities.
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Monday, April 1, 20242024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 1 This column presents Section 1, Chapter 1, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "Setting the Stage," and this Chapter, 1, is entitled "The United States in 1995: Setting the Stage for Fascism." Series: "The 15% Solution:" A Retrospective View of U.S. History: from 2048 (5 Articles, 3354 views)
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024Introduction to the 2024 Serialization of the third version (2013) of the 1996 book by Steven Jonas: The 15% Solution This is the introduction to a new series, that is the serialization of the third version (2013) my 1996 book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022. Series: "The 15% Solution:" A Retrospective View of U.S. History: from 2048 (5 Articles, 3354 views) 
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Thursday, March 21, 2024It Ain't Just Trump Trump is clearly a fascist threat. And, especially if Republican fair-election-cheating flourishes, he could become President once again. But Trump would not make it there on his own, no matter how historically out-sized his personality is. (And he does rank right up there with authoritarian figures he has expressed admiration for, like Hitler.) Trump still has much support in the Republican section of the ruling class.
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Friday, March 15, 2024Israeli Nationalism: Creating the New International Anti-Semitism, and (briefly) Conflating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semit The existence of Anti-Semitism, goes back to before the Common Era. It was first organized, under the "Jews Killed Christ" mythology, by St. Augustine in the 5th century. A contemporary anti-Semitic trope/myth is "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." But now a real basis for the organization of anti-Semitism has made its appearance: Israeli Nationalist One-State-Solution/Expulsionism. This column introduces this concept.
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Friday, March 8, 2024It's the Establishment Clause, Stupid! Very briefly, this column is a re-run of one of the several that I published over the years Leading uo to "Dobbs" in which I proposed that to the (very correct) "woman's right to choose" and "bodily autonomy" arguments should have been added one based on the Establihment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In this column, following a "bring-us-up-to-date" text, I re-run one of my earlier columns on that subject 
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Thursday, February 22, 2024Trump's Seven Magic Tricks Revisited, again This column is about Trump's "Seven Magic Tricks," a subject on which I have been writing since the time when he only had six. First I review the Seven and how he has used them in the past. Then I discuss how he might be able (or not) to use them this time around. And of course, as everyone knows, this time is different, because now he is enmeshed in the criminal, not the civil, law. The tricks might no longer work. We'll see. 
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Friday, February 16, 2024This is Your Heritage (Foundation) This column is about The Heritage Society that progenitor of top-of-the-line Reactionary Policy, Trump, and one of his leading campaign proposals, "Project 2025." Without the benefit of legislation passed under provisions of The Constitution, it would turn the Federal Civil Service back to what it was like before the passage of the Civil Service Act in 1883: the President's play toy. Oh yes too, they engage in much red-baiting
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Friday, February 9, 2024Trump Wins in 2020: A Fabrication (updated) This column is a re-run of one that I published in 2021, shortly after the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The history of the events that occurred from the time of the January 6 Insurrection assumed that it was successful. Since we are facing the real possibility of a second Trump term (achieved by him in one way or another), I thought that it might be useful to present this fictional history as I conceived it back then 
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Thursday, February 1, 2024Why the Current Israeli Government Will Not Negotiate Very briefly, this column reprises several columns that I have written on the subject since 2006. During that time, most of the Israeli governments have refused to countenance any kind-of "Two-State Solution," and conditions for the Palestinian (on paper citizens of the State of Israel) have steadily gotten worse. This column reprises earlier ones and adds a bit of new material at the end. Only US pressure can change things. 
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Thursday, January 25, 2024Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and Anti-Zionism This column is about the terms "Zionism," "anti-Zionism," and "anti-Semitism," how they developed historically, what the have meant at different historical times. It discusses how, in the United States at least, "anti-Semitism" and "anti-Zionism" have come to be equilibrated when in modern times at least, that equilibration is not valid. However, it has proven to be very useful politically to those forces who invented it.
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Thursday, January 18, 2024Response to a Commentary by Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center on the Gaza Conflict Earlier this month, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and global social action director at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, published an open letter commenting on whom the responsibility for the present situation in Gaza rests. It was also highly critical of the response/commentary from various world leaders on the situation. I was invited by "The G-Man" to write a response to it. Here is a modestly emended version of it.
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Friday, January 12, 2024"The Two Leading Candidates for their Party's Nomination on the Causes of the Civil War; Not This column is about causes of the Civil War. A) The institution of slavery and its continued expansion into the Western territories was the principal issue that caused the Civil War. B) Negotiations on the issues of slavery itself, and its expansion into the Western territories had been underway since the Constitutional Convention. (But of course, given what he reads, why should former Pres. Trump be expected to know this?
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Friday, January 5, 2024And Now for Something Completely Different: Dr. J's Guides for Healthy Living While I am a a regular contributor to OpEdNews.com on history and politics, for this column I am taking a very different focus. As a career Professor of Preventive Medicine I have published a number of books and numerous columns/articles on various aspects of personal health and wellness. And so, in this first column for the New Year, 2024, I am sharing with you "Dr. J.'s 20 Guides for Healthy Living," developed over time.
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Thursday, December 28, 2023A Set of SJ Tweets for the End of 2023. Happy New Year? Let's Hope So This is a set of Tweets (and yes, I still call it Twitter, not "X") of mine from this month (Dec., 2023). The majority of them concern Trump. Gee. I wonder why. Page 1 of 31 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
