Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
 |
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 801 week(s) and 4 day(s) 688 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 194 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
Articles Listed By Date
List By Popularity Page 1 of 28 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All
(1 comments) SHARE
Friday, November 14, 2025After the Shutdown: A Selection of SJ Comments This is a collection of various comments that I made following the re-convening of the House, the passage in it of the "Release The Epstein Files" res., the publication of the extensive set of Epstein emails collected by the victims' org. and organized and released through the offices of Rep. Ro Khanna, the End of the Shutdown, which I see as a good thing on balance, and the progression of the anti-Trump movement, in strength.
SHARE
Wednesday, November 12, 2025A Guest Column by my Friend, Dr. Donald Ardell: A Commentary on Trump In my space today I am publishing a post-election commentary by my dear and long-time friend, Dr. Donald Ardell, creator of the first modern concept of Wellness, back in the 1970s, which more recently he has developed and refined into REAL Wellness. In this column, I am presenting Don's observations on the recent elections, which I think are particularly perceptive. Next week there will be an essay from Don on REAL Wellness.
SHARE
Tuesday, November 4, 2025What Trump-Venezuela is Really About (In my opinion it's Not About Invasion) This column presents an alternative view on a Trump invasion of Venezuela: there won't be any. The whole operation, including the use of piracy on the high seas --- is constructed as a distraction from Trump's single most pressing problem right now: the release, or not, of the "Epstein files." He is using a classic Trump formulation in order to do this: Distort, Attack (but in this case, not Venezuela), Bluff, Distract.
SHARE
Saturday, November 1, 2025A Commentary on RFKJs Program to Make America Healthy Again (with an addendum on the fentanyl problem) This column first reviews the observations on the state of health and health-care services in the United States as briefly summarized by a supporter of the health and health-care policies of Sec. HHS, RFKJr. Then, from my perspective as career, well-published, health and health care policy analyst, it reviews briefly what might be done programmatically to deal with the issues summarized in the introduction to the column.
(2 comments) SHARE
Friday, October 24, 2025The Talented Mr. Trump: Where He Came from and Where He is Planning to take the Nation This column presents (yet again) a review of where Trump came from, and a brief listing of where he and his colleagues, supporters, and contributors want to take the nation, especially in implementing their prime goal, which is the destruction of U.S. Constitutional democracy, replacing it with a unitary system (formerly called Monarchy) and for the past century or so called Fascism Sadly, it's an going theme with Trump/P2025.
SHARE
Friday, October 10, 2025Kirk, Vance, Trump, and the American Christian Nation Party At the funeral of Charlie Kirk, several of the speakers made reference to the connection between the deceased, and the Republican Party, to God and Christianity. That text made me think of the fictional inaugural address I created in my 1996 book "The 15% Solution" for a then-future Republican President announcing the conversion of the Party to the American Christian Nation. After a brief introduction, I present that Address.
SHARE
Wednesday, October 1, 2025The Coming of the Second Civil War In this column I consider the thought that a Second Civil War is upon us. (Not violent, yet, of course.) It is between the Constitutionalist forces a US/Trump/P2025 form of Authoritarianism. I speculate that just as the First Civil War can be considered to have begun not with firing on Fort Sumter, but rather with South Carolina's secession so can the Second be considered to have begun with Trump's "invade the cities" speech.
(2 comments) SHARE
Friday, September 26, 2025Trump Tries to Trump Comey, but Possibly Trumps Himself --- Out the Door? This column reviews, from a column that I posted just before the 2016 election, the role that James Comey played in possibly swinging that election to Trump. It then reviews why, despite that very important fact, Trump fired Comey in May, 2017. It then examines what we know, to date, about the "Comey Indictment." Finally, it speculates as to why the Controlling Elites may be conspiring to usher Trump out of the White House.
(1 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, September 23, 2025The Significance of Kyle Rittenhouse, an Invited Guest at the Kirk Funeral This column is about one Kyle Rittenhouse who, in the course of a demonstration in Kenosha, WI on behalf of the memory of George Floyd and in protest against police brutality shot and killed two (white) pro-civil rights demonstrators. He was subsequently acquitted of any crime(s) at trial. He has become something of a hero to sectors of the US Republican-Right, and was seated as a guest of honor at the Charlie Kirk funeral.
(1 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, September 16, 2025The Kirk Assassination: Trump's Reichstag Fire This column compares how the Nazi Party used the "Reichstag Fire" (which they secretly set) to help usher the Hitler dictatorship through the German Parliament (the Reichstag), with how the TrumpRepubloFascists are preparing, if they can, to use the Charlie Kirk Assassination in a similar way. If you are not with us on this one, then you are a "Leftist Conspiracist" and will be dealt with accordingly.
SHARE
Thursday, September 11, 2025On 9/11: A Revisit, to The 28 Pages Controversy This column is a re-run of a column that I first posted some years ago, on the "what really happened" controversy, that has simmered from the time from almost immediately after the occurrence of the tragedy itself. I have re-posted it previously. The questions that it raises about the incomplete release of the Report of the 9/11 Joint Congressional Inquiry still remain. And so, it seems to me that this re-revisit is indicated.
SHARE
Thursday, September 4, 2025A Series of Three Comments, on Different Subjects: Babbit, RFKJ, and Trump-and-the-Epstein Files The 1st section is on the full-honors military funeral being provided to one Ashly Babbitt: how this retired military enlisted person comes to be given such an honor and under whose command she might have been. The 2nd is on what changes to the US health care delivery system RFKJ might be contemplating beyond sharply limiting vaccine availability. The 3rd deals with Trump's "Democrat Hoax" line used in re the "Epstein matter.
(1 comments) SHARE
Friday, August 29, 2025The Separation of Powers As the TrumpRepubloFascists/P2025 try to establish a form of fascist government in our nation, it becomes clear that a central element of their attack is the tri-partite U.S. government structure, with a separation of powers. This what must destroyed, if any of their larger goals are to be met. This column examines that central feature of the Constitution and how the TrumpRepubloFascists are indeed maneuvering to destroy it.
SHARE
Friday, August 22, 2025The Lost Cause: a Column Revisited Given President Trump's references to the "slavery wasn't so bad" dictum that has been common in U.S. politics, on and off, since 1877, and his attempts to enter that dictum into, for example, discussion of the role of the Smithsonian Institution, I thought to revisit a column that I wrote on "The Lost Cause" theme that dates from the 1890s. As is well-known, Heather Cox Richardson has done major work in this arena.
SHARE
Thursday, August 14, 2025Is Trump's "Munich" coming Up? The possibly-historically-famous meeting between the Presidents Trump and Putin is scheduled to take place tomorrow (August 15, 2025) almost 77 years to the day after the famous "Munich" meeting at which the British Prime Minister Chamberlain gave to Hitler's govt. a chunk of Western Czechoslovakia over which he had no sovereignty. This col. discusses why and how that happened, and what sort-of-historical parallel might occur.
SHARE
Friday, August 8, 2025Trump's 7 Magic Tricks: A Review; Plus a Note on the 25th Amendment I have been writing on what I have called "Trump's Six Magic Tricks" (now 7) for quite some time now. Trump is getting into all sorts of trouble over a variety of issues, ranging from extraditions, to tariffs, to inflation, to "Epstein." If you watch closely, you can see the Magic Tricks list on full display (as reviewed in this column). I also briefly deal with a possible "25th Amendment Situation," in re that VP mtg. on 8/6. ![Digital Reproduction of the Know-Nothing Party Flag. A perfect symbol to hang for the Repubs., no[[?], say in the Alitos' back-yard?, From WikimediaPhotos](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg/250px-Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg "Digital Reproduction of the Know-Nothing Party Flag. A perfect symbol to hang for the Repubs., no[[?], say in the Alitos' back-yard?, From WikimediaPhotos")
(2 comments) SHARE
Saturday, July 19, 2025The Republican Party: Xenophobia has been in its Blood, Since its Beginnings Trump's Threat to U.S. Const. Democracy has always been headlined by the doctrine of "Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia." At the outset of his, and P2025's, Program to Destroy U.S. Constitutional Democracy, he has been using rampant xenophobia, led in the field by ICE. As I have written in earlier columns, xenophobia was present in Party doctrine from its beginning in 1854. When indicated I will re-run a column. And do so here.
SHARE
Monday, July 7, 2025A Date that Shall Live in Infamy, plus some other Notes on TRF (1) This column reviews two "dates that shall live infamy" on which negotiations to find a peaceful solution to outstanding problems were suddenly ended by surprise attacks, and 2) the implementation of two major Republican policies: a broad-based attack on the poor, by ending major Fed. programs, and the massive strengthening of a Federal agency that combines functions similar to those of the Nazi "Brown Shirts" and the Gestapo.
SHARE
Friday, June 20, 2025TrumpRepubloFascism is Here: How Long Will It Stay? It depends TrumpRepubloFascism, to which for quite some time I have been referring to as an oncoming freight train, has now arrived on Track I. A very significant question is for how long it can be estimated that it will remain in the station, spreading its powers across the nation and beyond. One answer to that question may be found in the experiences of 20th-century fascist powers and whether or not they engaged in foreign wars.
(1 comments) SHARE
Thursday, June 12, 2025Trump 'Dictator for a Day?' Well, not Just One, Exactly This column re-visits one that I published on Trump and Hannity back in 2023, about Trump and the concept of "Dictator-for-a-Day. Hannity tried hard to get Trump to disavow any notion of becoming a dictator, even for one day. He did not succeed. We are now seeing the Trump-dictatorship in real time. This columns reviews the that interview and then briefly reviews the dictator-like politics that Trump is enacting, now. Page 1 of 28 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
