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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 837 week(s) and 5 day(s) 718 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 195 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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The 'Seven Magic Tricks, Revisited' (Again) This column is about a topic that, for good reason, is receiving alot of attention in the Fair-Elections/Anti-TrumpRepubloFascism (TRF) media. Why are the TRFs planning to undermine the fairness of the 2026 mid-terms. Why? As is well-known, according to the polls, if the current indicators hold, the TRFs are in for a whupping. This column is about how they will be using Trump's Seven Magic Tricks in their "undermining" attempt
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The TrumpRepubloFascists' Version of "Grand Theft Auto:" "Grand Theft Elections'" This column presents a brief review of the major achievements/objectives of the TrumpRepubloFascist government. It also focuses on the upcoming Cong. elections, why the TRF's (obviously) fear their potential results, and discusses briefly what they are planning to do subvert them. It is also predicts that Trump will either overtly or overtly announce his plans in his 7/16/26 speech, which may be broadcast nationally on TV.
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A Guest Column: "Today's Republican Party" This week's column is written by long-time friend and colleague, Donald Ardell, Ph.D. Among other things, Don has the been promoter and (much) further developer, both nationally and internationally, of the concept of and program for "High Level Wellness," originally conceived by Dr. Halbert Dunn about 60 years ago. Don also has a keen interest in U.S. politics and history. Here I present a recent column of his, most apropos.
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The TrumpRepubloFascists and the Supreme Court" Trump, and his handlers for the installation of P2025/TrumpRepubloFascism and the destruction of U.S. Constitutional Democracy with its central feature of the Separation of Powers, know well that a) Trump has terrible approval ratings, b) that certain Repub. Senators/Reps. who should be comfortably ahead are not, and c) the Supreme Court is not always on their side. This column reviews these several factors and their history.
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"Disclosure Day" and What our Species Might Learn from an Arrival of Extra-Terrestrials* Steven Spielberg, a most remarkable 80, has a new movie. "Disclosure Day." It returns to a theme that he dealt with in one of his early movies, E.T. This time the plot revolves around the attempts of "authorities" to keep the secret. My theme here revolves around one dealt with in an earlier column on the "self-destructive species," and the implication that such an arrival might save us from that otherwise inevitable outcome.
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The Desecration of the House (plus a Prescript on Trump's 'Iran Deal') This column is about the Desecration of the White House that Trump visited upon it by hosting the UFC "Cage Matches" in and at it. In this column I symbolically compare that desecration with the Desecration-of-the-Constitution that the P2025-TrumpRepubloFascist forces have been carrying out since Day 1 of the Second Trump Presidency. There is also a prescript which offers an explanation for why Trump caved on the War-on-Iran.
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The Star-Spangled Banner and what it Truly Stands For This column is a partial re-run of a column that I published in 2017, on Trump, an NFL quarterback named Colin Kaepernick, the U.S. Flag and our National Anthem. It deals with what Trump has made 6-14-26 into --- the excrescence appearing on the White House lawn. Thus, for this year it is a date that shall live in infamy (along with December 7, 1941). And it explains both the positives and negatives of our National Anthem.
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Trump and Project 2025 (Plus a few thoughts on his state of health) In my view, which I have held and written about in this space for quite some time now, a) P2025 and what it proposes to do (major elements of which Trump is already implementing, e.g., declaring war without getting a resolution from Congress, Art2) presents the most serious danger-to-the-Republic of the Trump Presidency. I summarize its major features. Plus, I briefly review several of the major health issues Trump faces now.
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"Trump-Comey" 2016 Revisited In brief, this is a re-run of a column published in the week before the 2016 elections in which I speculated that various anti-Clinton activities that then FBI Director James Comey undertook would have the effect of electing Trump as President. I then briefly mention that after the election Comey proceeded with the "Russian interference" investigation begun before the election, which eventually led to the "Mueller Report."
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Another Revisit to "The Origin of the Self-Destructive Species" Hypothesis This is yet another re-visit to a column that I have posting periodically for quite some time --- because it continues to be appropriate to do so. The premise is that since our species, homo sapiens, is the only one that, for its survival, depends upon conversion of mater that it finds in its environment, rather than consuming and using matter directly, ownership of the means of conversion holds the key to species survival.
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The Origins of the TrumpRepublican Party: A Different View from that of Steve Schmidt This column is about my view of the historical origins of the current TrumpRepublican Party and how it differs from a perspective on it recently presented by the columnist Steve Schmidt (of whose work I am a great admirer). Steve traces it back over the last 20-30 years or so. I trace it back to the founding coalition of the party, in 1856, and the policies that it has followed since the election of Pres. Hayes in 1876.
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The Traitor King: The Duke of Windsor (a re-run) This column is a re-run of a column about the dealings with the Nazis that the never-crowned English monarch, Edward VIII/future Duke of Windsor, a Nazi sympathizer during the 1930s, had with the Nazis during the summer of 1940 about a possible place for him in a future fascist Nazi-German government of Great Britain. The parallel is, of course, the impending visit by Charles II to U.S.'s homegrown fascist leader.
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The Establishment of 'The New American Republics --- Under God' This is a future fictional speech, published in the 1996 book from which it is excerpted. Why am I re-publishing it at this time? Obviously, when we have a (non-Church-going) President who compares himself to Jesus Christ, and a Vice-President (a relatively recent Catholic convert) who tells the Pope that he should go back and study theology more, that's a pretty easy question to answer. Welcome to The New American Republics.
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A Series of Comments Written on Steve Schmidt Substack Columns, March 9-April 13, 2026 This column presents (with a slight bit of editing here and there) a series of comments that I posted in the "Comments" section of a series of Steve Schmidt Substack columns that he posted during the stated time period. Plus (of course) a few additional comments of mine on the subject matter, here and there.
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Trump's War on Iran: Some Notes Very briefly, this is about Trump and his war, and its costs for the world's nations and their economies, the people of Iran, and the future of the United States, currently slowly moving in the direction of fascism, under the leadership of the TrumpRepubloFascists, their dancing bear, and the Constitution-destroying P2025.
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On the passing of Former FBI Director, and of his Report on the 2016 Election On the passing of Dir. Robert Mueller his column --- excerpts from a previously published column on the subject --- presents a summary of the major findings of The Mueller Report on Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. As the nation hurtles down the track towards the threatened fascist revolution that the P2025TrumpRepubloFascists are attempting to impose upon us, it is useful, in my view, to review those findings.
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Causes 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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Is 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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A 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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The 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. Page 1 of 36 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |