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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 779 week(s) and 0 day(s) 669 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Monday, March 25, 2019Katy Barr the Door* As is widely known, Donald J. Trump hired William Barr as his personal lawyer inside the Justice Department (oops, Attorney General) for one reason only: to try to shut down the Mueller investigation entirely and prevent any of it from reaching the light of day. Lacking that, Barr's assignment was a) to short circuit it to the extent possible and b) to make as light of the findings as possible. This column goes on from there. 
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Friday, March 22, 2019The Bush-Cheney War on Iraq, in the Context of the 9/11 Disaster July 19 was the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Bush-Cheney War on Iraq. On his Al-Awda-News my good friend Sami Joseph republished an outstanding column by Jeremy Hammond on the immediate run-up to it that was published in the Foreign Policy Journal on Sept. 12, 2012. In that context, I thought to revisit a column that I published in 2004 on the Bush-Cheney response to the 9-11 disaster and their War on Iraq. 
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Thursday, March 14, 2019Let's Take Trump at his Word: "It's a Hoax and a Witch-hunt;" What Then? OK, Mr. Trump. Let's say that there is no truth in any of the charges, indictments, guilty-pleas, and criminal convictions which have been brought against you (for you it is just charges, indirectly so far) and members of your administration and campaign team. Just how you would intend to go about showing how the following items comprise a "hoax" and a "witch-hunt." Surely you can do it, with ease, can't you? 
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Friday, March 8, 2019Looking Backward [to 2009]: Fox News, the Republican Party, and the Not-Loyal Opposition Fox and the Repub. Right: then (2009) and now: Jane Mayer's column in The New Yorker: click here. Nothing has changed except for the intensity and closeness of the connection. 
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Thursday, February 21, 2019It's Not About the Wall The "Wall" is not about a Wall along the Mexican-U.S. border per se. It's all about a) political symbolism for Trump and the Trumpites and b) the means, through the "national emergency," to intensify Trump's drive towards effective dictatorship. 
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Friday, February 15, 2019Abortion Rights and Religious Authoritarianism For quite some time, I have been writing on the necessity of moving the struggle to maintain abortion rights beyond the "woman's rights to choose" to the struggle to maintain the essential U.S. right of religious freedom. I certainly believe in any woman's right to choose but I also believe that over time it is becoming a losing argument. The basic struggle is over religious freedom. And that is what this column is about. 
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Friday, February 1, 2019Ann Coulter's Wall and Trump's Continuing Drive towards Fascism This column is about Trump's Wall, Ann Coulter, and Trump's continuing drive towards establishing a fascist state. With a postscript on his abandonment of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement (then with the Soviet Union, now with its successor state, Russia). 
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Sunday, January 20, 2019Hair Trump or Herr Trump, Revisited Back in the Fall of 2015, as the Presidential primary season was getting into full swing, I wrote a column on him entitled "Hair Trump or Herr Trump." In it, I dealt with the number of fascist tendencies that already seemed to be appearing in Trump's person and politics. As Trump proceeds through his Presidency, I thought it useful to review those projections.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019The Reichstag Fire, the "Border Crisis" and the Establishment of Dictatorship Goering's men set the Reichstag Fire to give Hitler the pretext for declaring a national emergency and demanding the creation of the Enabling Act, which gave him dictatorial power. Trump's ultimate goal in declaring a "border crisis" --- when his "Wall" solution to it, which would take years to build ---tells us that there is none, may well be the establishment of a dictatorship. 
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Friday, December 28, 2018President Trump and the 'Syria Withdrawal:' Why Now? A Different Perspective The Trump Syria pull-out: why now? What's it all about, Alfie? Here's an answer. Could be right. Could be wrong. But it's different. Hint: it's got the names Putin and Erdogan in it. 
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Friday, December 21, 2018Is There a Slow-Motion Coup Underway? I think that a silent, slowly developing inside coup d'etat has been developing against Trump since before that very revealing (if one read it the right way) Op-Ed from "Anonymous" appeared in the New York Times last fall. I think that the Syria pull-out, most likely the result of a Putin-called card, is the last, or at least one of the last, straws. It will likely come as the result of investigation overload. 
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Thursday, December 20, 2018The Repubs. and the Rightward Imperative: Gets Them to Trump --- And Then? This column is about how what I call "The Rightward Imperative," operating within the primary system, is what has been driving the Republican Party evermore to the Right, over the last 50 years or so. 
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Thursday, December 13, 2018"Elle" and "The Preamblers" The women's magazine Elle has recently undertaken an unusual initiative: On Nov. 6, 2018, 35 new women were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, making this incoming class the most diverse . . . in the body's 230-year history. They join nearly 70 women incumbents, resulting in over 100 women reps. To commemorate the milestone, ELLE.com captured 27 of these Congresswomen-Elect, reciting the Preamble to the Constitution 
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018The Bushes and "Honor" With the passing of George H.W. Bush, there has been a lot of talk about him and "honor." "Except for the 'Willy Horton' ad," and perhaps one or two other things here and there, folks say, he was an "honorable man." And certainly, folks say, he came from, and bequeathed to us, an honorable family. Well, in this column we'll take a look at those propositions, and readers can make up their own minds. 
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Friday, November 30, 2018The South Won the First Civil War --- Betcha Didn't Know That With the victory of Hyde-White, a woman who made abundantly clear that she is a White Supremacist, harking back to both Jim Crow (lynchings) and the Confederacy (wanting to name a highway after Jeff Davis), in the Mississippi Senate election, I thought to revisit a theme on which I have written periodically: How the South Won the Civil War. And so, here 'tis that column. 
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Friday, November 23, 2018The Art of the Con: Failure 1 and the Further Turn Towards Fascism Trump has been characterized as history's greatest con man. Until now, he has always won, or being able to characterize each of his many real losses as "wins," at least been able to make it seem that way. But now, in an off-year election which he was able to make into a referendum about himself, in terms of the total popular vote and control of the House, he has lost. This column is about how he is reacting to that reality. 
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018The Supreme Court and Judicial Review Trump's choice to be Acting Attorney General, holds many far right-wing views on various aspects of the law (which makes him perfectly qualified for the job --- from Trump's point of view). This column offers a fictional version of one doctrine that Mr. Whitaker supported at least at one point in his career: that "Marbury v. Madison" was wrongly decided and thus the Supreme Court does not have he power of judicial review. 
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Monday, November 5, 2018The Day After* Tomorrow's election is much more like a plebiscite on Trump than a typical U.S. mid-term. Thus it is unique in U.S. history. This column explains why. 
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Friday, November 2, 2018There is no "Middle Ground:" It's Either the Second Civil War or Partition In the face of Trump (not a pleasant sight, either literally or figuratively) major political and academic figures are calling on the nation to "come together." In this column I argue that given the issues on whihc there are major irreconcilable divisions that is impossible. In future columns I will be discussing the two possible outcomes of what I regard as fact: the Second Civil War, or partition, either before or after it 
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Sunday, October 28, 2018Trumpite Governance, 2018-21, if there is no 'Blue Wave' in 2018 This column is about the gradual development of 21st century Functional Fascism under the Trumpites, faster if the Repubs. maintain control of the Congress, more slowly if they don't. But they will continue to press forward, even if they lose the House. That is because that is the goal of the ruling class sector they represent. Page 17 of 34 First Last Back Next 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 View All |
