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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- OpEdNews Member for 819 week(s) and 1 day(s) 702 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 195 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Friday, March 20, 2026Causes of War: Historical Historically, wars between various elements of human societies have been caused by conflicts over resources, territory, influence-and-control, and similar elements. The hypothesis stated here is that the Trump-War-on-Iran, at least at it beginnings, was caused by something completely different, in one word, "Epstein." Briefly reviewed are the causes of major wars in Europe and North America over the past millennium or so.
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Friday, March 13, 2026Is Trump Trumped? Well, Maybe As is VERY well-known Trump politically has had Nine Lives. He has survived, a list of which 1-2 would have brought to the end any other political career. But he has been super-useful to the currently dominant wing of the U.S. Ruling Class, which, as in P2025, wants to destroy U.S. tri-partite Const. Democracy, replacing it with a form of fascism. This col. reviews why Trump's usefulness to them may well have come to an end.
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Friday, March 6, 2026A Series of 'Comments' Made on the Steve Schmidt Substack, in Feb. 2026 Being a set of Comments, only slightly edited, that I posted on Steve Schmidt's Substack in February (and one in March).
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Thursday, February 26, 2026The State of the Nation: Feb. 25, 2026 This column is framed by 2 "Yogi-isms:" "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." And, "It's never over 'til it's over." One begins the essay, the other ends it. In between is summary of what I often write about, the threat to U.S. Const. Democracy posed by TrumpRepubloFascism. At the end, it posits the end for Const. Democracy will be reached, as is well-known, if the TRFs are successful in fixing the 2026 mid-terms.
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Saturday, February 21, 2026On the Ten Commandments: A Revisit This column is a re-publication of a earlier column. It concerns an effort being undertaken in Texas by the National School Chaplains Association to require the posting of the Ten Commandments (version chosen by them) in every classroom in the Texas public Schools. The column considers both the Constitutional and origin/textual issues on the table. They are being vigorously opposed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
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Thursday, February 5, 2026A Series of Comments on Steve Schmidt Substacks The column presents a series of Comments that I made on the uniformly both historically-spot-on and thought-provoking columns that the well-known political commentator (and former Republican) Steve Schmidt, posts regularly on his Substack. They were posted during the period from Jan. 11, 2026 through Feb. 4, 2026.
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Thursday, January 29, 2026Once again: Dealing with the Oncoming TrumpRepubloFascist Train of Horror Very briefly, this column is about where I think we are in the ongoing battle against the implementation of the TrumpRepubloFascist (TRF) plan to destroy U.S. Constitutional Democracy, replacing it with a 21st century fascism. It reviews briefly the role of the horrid events in Minneapolis both in pushing forward the TRF counter-revolution, and in further bringing together and consolidating the national resistance to it.
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Monday, January 19, 2026Some Thoughts on Why the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was Assassinated, when he was Assassinated This is a column that I have published several times over the years, virtually without any changes. Given that Trump has, since the last election, become openly racist --- as in, for example, removing this day as the National Holiday that was established in 1983 during the first Reagan/Administration(! no integrationist he!) --- I thought that it would be useful to revisit those reasons-for-assassination once again.
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Friday, January 16, 2026Is the United States Facing a Second Civil War?" Briefly, this column presents a brief consideration of some of the aspects of current TrumpRepubloFascist policy, and the reactions, so far, to them, that will determine whether or not our nation descends into a Second Civil War.
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Friday, January 9, 2026Some Short 'Comments' Made on a Variety of Events, in Late 2025 This column consists of a series of Comments that I made on Steve Schmidt's Substack grea(veschmidt.substack.com/) in late 2025. In part, they provide a summary of my perspective on what our nation faces as we head into Year 2 of what I call the "TrumpRepubloFascist" Presidency (click here.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025Happy New Year: from Your President in Christ, Donald J. Trump As far as we know, Donald Trump is a non-religious person. But, as I have noted more than once, the Republican Party is moving further to the Christian Religious Right, and Trump is going right along with it. This column once again presents Vance's openly Christo-religious remarks at the Kirk funeral, cites the Christian Xmas-time greetings posted on Fed. websites, and presents again the fictional ACNP Hague-inaugural address
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Friday, December 19, 2025Trump Derangement Syndrome: What it Is and What it Is Not Since somebody (dunno who, for sure), during the 2016 Presidential Campaign made up the term for the substance-challenged Trump to use to respond to any challenges/criticisms, "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has been the all-purpose slogan to be used, in the place of any kind of policy/substance debate, by Trump and all of his alter-egos and other defenders. This column discusses how it has been used, and still is being used.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025Trump (and Hegseth too), Narco terrorism, and Dealing with Drugs and Drug Use Trump's attacks on small boats on the Caribbean are supposed to part of some "War on Drugs." The column deals with some of the myths surrounding the use of what I call the "Recreational Mood-Altering Drugs," e.g., that supply creates demand when historical experience shows that it is precisely the other way 'round. The column also deals with the way Trump is dealing with the matter, which can be defined only as piracy.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025The Order Trump Dreams of Being Able to Enforce This is the latest of my ongoing (since 2015) Trump and fascism series, in general, and in particular, the latest very well-known episode in it, concerning Trump's charge that certain ex-military-national-security members of Congress are violating the law by telling members of the military that they are obligated not to follow illegal orders. This is yet another example of Trump's/P2025 drive towards fascism.
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Friday, November 21, 2025How Trump can be Beaten (and it aint with The Files) In an anon. email an "Author Unknown" posted a long list of Trump mis-deeds. I, and many other commentators, have been (quite correctly) writing about "Trump and the Epstein files," which might, if the truth were revealed, mark the end of him, politically. Excerpts from the list reminded me in detail of the damage that Trump has done to our nation, and if he and his movement are to be defeated, this is what must be focused on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Page 1 of 26 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
