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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 775 week(s) and 0 day(s) 667 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Thursday, November 18, 2021The Steele Dossier and the J. Mayer Analysis: Revisited The Steele Dossier is back in the news. ThTrump/Barr stooge Durham is trying to make something out of it --- that it is nothing. Back in 2018 I wrote a column on the controversy based on a lengthy New Yorker article (are there any that are not lengthy) by Jane Mayer that concluded that there is much in the Steele Dossier that is a) true and b) of value. Here I reproduce parts of that column with some additional commentary. 
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Thursday, November 11, 2021Racism, Historical Fact, and 'The Lost Cause' Prof. Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School, recently published a New York Times Op-Ed entitled "Lincoln Broke the U.S. Constitution." Such a topic could make for an interesting discussion. Except that Prof. Feldman got all of his historical facts wrong. So the topic, as phrased by the Prof., doesn't make it. How it supports the current revival of the "Lost Cause" propaganda shtick does make for an interesting argument. Here 'tis. 
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Thursday, November 4, 2021The COVID-19 Pandemic; Anti-Vaxxers Right and Left; and Be Careful who your Friends are This column is a discussion of COVID-19, science/non-science, public health, vaccination, anti-vaxxers Left and Right, anti-maskers (Right, although who knows, there might be some lefties against masks also), ivermectin (how could I skip it) and etc. Warning: as a career public health physician, I take the traditional scientific/public health positions on the various questions raised in the column. 
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Thursday, October 28, 2021Toni Morrison and the Trajectory of Racism in the U.S.: from 1995 to the Present and Beyond In 1996 I published a "future history," "The 15%^ Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022." In chapter two, which describes the foundation of the racist-fascist movement which led to that outcome, I used an extensive quote from an article on racist politics that Toni Morrison had published in 1995. Given the attention being paid to her by racist politicians, here is a revisit to her thought from that time 
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Friday, October 22, 2021U.S. History: A Trail of Big Lies --- of Which the Last Two are Different This columns proposes that the history of the U.S. can be seen in part as the development of policies and programs based on a series of Big Lies. As it happens, many of them can be traced back to the development of the "original sin," the Doctrine of White Supremacy, in the 17th century. The most use of the most prominent among them are traced down to this very day. Also discussed are two current big lies, based on mythology. 
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Thursday, October 14, 2021The American Christian Nation Party (Republican)** The column draws from my book "The 15% Solution" and on the political efforts of one Ralph Reed to make the Republican Party into some form of an "American Christian Nation Party." The focus here is on an appeal for funds for an organization headed by Reed, the "Faith & Freedom Coalition," is the direct successor to Reed's original "Christian Coalition," which in its early days focused heavily on voter suppression. 
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Friday, October 8, 2021The U.S. Ruling Class and the Onset of Republo-Fascism; with a Lesson from the 'Anschluss' of 1938 The "Anschluss," the joining of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, resulted from an invasion by the Nazis. It was part of a series of aggressive actions at home and abroad that had begun back in 1933, after the approval of the Nazi regime was provided to it by cream of the German ruling class. A recent book on the Anschluss dramatizes the meeting at which that approval was granted. It has lessons for us in the U. S. 
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021Republo-Fascism and Trump: A Brief Review of SJ Columns on the Subject An increasing number of warnings are coming on the increasing dangers to the Republic and its Constitutional structure presented by Donald Trump and the the Republican Party. A recent one coming from the pen of the former "Neo-Con" Robert Kagan has attracted much attention. This column of mine presents a brief review of columns that I have been writing on Trump, the Republicans, and the fascist threat since 2015. 
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021The Republican Party of Death National, state, and local Republican politics and policies have been becoming increasingly "pro-COVID 19," in terms of both morbidity and mortality. This column briefly reviews the historical process by which this has occurred, that is of course starting with Trump. It then goes on to briefly examine current Republican state policies which are serving to spread disease-morbidity, leading, of course, to increased morality. 
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Friday, September 10, 20219-11 20th Anniversary Retrospective III: 20 Questions Briefly, this column, the third in my series "previous columns on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy of 9-11, deals briefly with the earlier "28 pages" controversy, and then goes on to present "20 Questions" about the events of the day and the responses to them that have yet to be dealt with in any detail (and some --- like the President's delay in responding to being informed of the attack --- in no detail at all). 
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Thursday, September 9, 20219-11 20th Anniv. Retrospective, II: 'The Conspiracy Theories that Surround it and What is Patriotism' This column is largely based on one that was orig. published on the 9th anniversary of the terrible events of 9-11-01. It deals with a) just some of the conspiracy theories that have been set forth to explain the events (including the final report of the 9-11 Comm., which itself presented a particular one) b) a list of major authorities who had/have concerns about that Final Report, and c what patriotism is, in this context. 
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Wednesday, September 8, 20219-11 20th Anniversary Retrospective, I: "Possible Explanations for the Behavior of Pres. George W. Bush, in re 9-11" This is the first part of a three- part retrospective series of selections from the set of articles that I have published over the years on this topic. The series is being published now, in remembrance of that awful day, 9-11-2001, on the three days leading up to that anniversary, Sept. 8, 9, and 10. The original version of this column was published on the old The Political Junkies in 2004. 
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021Condi Rice: on 9/11, the 9/11 Commission, Afghanistan, and the Invasion of Iraq" (fictional) This column consists of one of my periodic re-visits with a column that I wrote on 9/11, Afghanistan, and/or Iraq, sometime ago. This one consists of a totally fictional "testimony" that Condolezza Rice presented to the 9/11 Commission. Didn't happen, but I had fun writing it back then, and I am having fun presenting it to you here again. 
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Friday, August 27, 2021No Mandates! Mandates! And the Republican Religious Right Oh the Republican Religious Right, lead by such governors as DeSantis and Abbott, just hate mandates, when it comes to such matters as school attendance, which is simply a mandate imposed if you want your child to go to school, not an everywhere one). But oh yes, they surely do just love mandates when it comes to such matters as a religiously-driven mandate prohibiting choice in the outcome of pregnancy, by the pregnant woman! 
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Thursday, August 19, 2021Afghanistan, Biden, and Trump Not too long ago, I posted a lengthy column on Afghanistan, my first in ten years. Given what is happening in Afghanistan now, the topic is obviously worth another column. This one, unlike much of the other commentary being published these days, focuses in significant part of how we and Afghanistan got to where we are, starting in the 1970s, not simply post- 9//11, and the role of Trump in creating the current situation. 
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Sunday, August 15, 2021'The Suicide of Capitalism,' Revisited Global warming is clearly getting worse, and so are its outcomes. Warnings have been issued with great regularity from the UN, from climate science and scientists, and etc. But nothing significant has happened, except that the predicted total disaster date has moved ever closer. The "why" has this happened can be summed up in one word "capitalism." I published a column on this subject about 6 1/2 years ago, reproduced here. 
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Friday, August 6, 2021Why Anti-Pandemic Control: from the Right The Trumpublican Party has carried out a consistently anti-COVID-spread, public-health-based, control program since the day that President Biden took office. This column examines some of the reasons why they have adopted that policy. Oh yes. You will be happy to know that in addition to Trump, Florida's champion super-spreader-all-by-himself Gov. Ron DeSantis is also featured. 
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Thursday, July 29, 2021American Exceptionalism: Fascism Arrives in Slow Motion As the title under the illustration for this week's column, (unfortunately) fascism in NOT so last century. As numbers of previous columns of mine (and those of many other observers) have illustrated, Republo-fascism is coming right down the track. But compared with how fascism arrived in the 5 major fascist countries of the 20th cent., it is coming on in slow-motion, as an example of "American Exceptionalism." 
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Friday, July 23, 2021The 62 Years War Against Cuba This column examines what is currently going on in Cuba in the context of "The 62 Years War Against Cuba" which has been waged by the United States since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1, 1959. Reviewing previous writing of mine, it also examines in brief what Cuba would look like if the always-threatened "Cruzbio" takeover were to somehow succeed. 
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021Trump's American Christian Nation Party (ACNP)???" There has recently been speculation that Trump may be trying to form a political alliance with major elements of the Christian Right, in order to form a Religio-Republican Party for the future. In 1996 I published a book which projected exactly this kind of development, which would be consummated (if I may use that term) by 2008. This column presents an inaugural address that just such a religio-Republican Pres. might make. Page 10 of 34 First Last Back Next 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 View All |
