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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 719 week(s) and 1 day(s) 604 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 174 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Thursday, June 29, 2023The Coming Second U.S. Civil War? No. We are in it. War is common to the only self-destructive species, Homo Sapiens (refs. in the text). There are two kinds of intra-species wars, one between various politico-economies, and the other within the same. The latter are called civil wars. They are always fought over irreconcilable differences between selectors within one nation-state. It is postulated that within the U.S., there are those irreconcilable differences. Ergo civil war 
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Friday, June 23, 2023Sears Roebuck and Co. and the Stony Brook U. Sch. Of Med.: A Reminisce This column is not about politics. It is about my various connections, since childhood, with what once was the greatest retailing company in the United States, Sears Roebuck. I had fun writing this one. I hope that you will have some fun reading it. 
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023Jews for Hitler; Blacks (and other non-Whites) for Trump The title of this column might well be "Jews for Hitler? Why not Blacks [and other non-whites] for Trump." It is an update of a column on that history (published previously several times), addressing current Republican politics and the role of non-whites in it. 
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Friday, June 2, 2023The First Inaugural Address of President Ron DeSantis This column predicts that (A), as previously noted, Trump will get indicted at the Fed. level and will flee the country. B) DeSantis will get the Republican nomination. C) DeSantis will win. The column then offers a draft text for an inaugural address that DeSantis would deliver on Dec. 25, 2024. That text is drawn from the first version (1996) of my book "The 15% Solution: How the Repub. Relig. Right Took Control, 1981-2022.
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Friday, May 26, 2023Revisit - Trump Russia, 3: The Steele Dossier/J. Mayer This is the third of this series of re-visits to columns that delved into "Trump-Russia." The re-visiting was stimulated by the last (and presumably THE last, but hey, you never know) attempt by Bill Barr to bury-distort the outcomes of the various investigations into "Trump-Russia. Ba was very successful in burying the Iran-Contra-Scandal for H.W. Bush. It remains to be seen just how successful he is this time around. 
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Thursday, May 25, 2023"Revisit - Trump Russia, 2: Carter Page and the Trump/Russia Connection - Revisited" This is the 2nd of a series of 3 re-runs of columns on "Trump-Russia," which happening happened to lead to the Mueller Investigation, which Barr-Durham have been trying, indirectly, so hard to discredit (even though Fox"News" recently has been caught with its "News"-pants down around its ankles). At any rate, this column is about a one-time key figure in the drama, one Carter Page, who had a Russia connection back to 2013.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023Revisit - Trump Russia, 1: The Steele Dossier/J. Mayer In light of the publication of the "Durham Report," yet another attempt by Bill Barr to do away with "Trump-Russia," I am republishing three of the columns that I wrote on the subject around the time the series of events, populations, and investigations (see the "Mueller Report") were taking place. This one focuses on the not truly discredited, although that term is frequently-used, "Steele Dossier," not used much by the FBI 
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023History's Greatest Con Man, Redux Very briefly, the theme of this article is that there are not an old Trump and a new Trump. There is only one Trump, and he is VERY dangerous.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023Building a New 'Citizenship-for-all' Party in Israel; from a column by Gershon Baskin This column is a follows the one of April 28 which concerned what I think is the real issue causing such political turmoil in Israel, that is the right-wing determination to follow through on their long-time desired policy of Arab Expulsion. The column discusses the citizenship clause in the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Now a party has been formed based on it, described here by the Israeli columnist Gershon Baskin. 
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Friday, April 28, 2023The Current Israeli Constitutional Crisis: What it is Really About In Israel there is currently a Constitutional crisis about the power of the Supreme Court in the Israeli government. On the surface, this conflict seems to be about Bibi Netanyahu and certain crimes he may have committed. It's not. It's rather about whether the current right- wing government will be able to institute the long-standing right-wing policy for the expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs from the Occupied Territories. 
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023"Tomorrow Never Dies: James Bond, Rupert Murdoch, and the Dominion Law Suit There was a James Bond film enititled "The World is Not Enough" in which the lead villain and his media empire were considered by many to be based on Rupert Murdoch and Fox. He of course comes to a bad end. This column reviews the movie and the Dominion Suit. With some help from a few friends like Charlie Sykes, it also comes to the conclusion that the suit, while costing Murdoch money will not cramp his far-right style much. 
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023Stirring up a Tweet Storm(y)" Very simply, this columnms consists of a collection of (most of) the tweets that I have posted at my Twitter site (tter.com/tpjmagazine) since the end of last year. I hope that you will find them to be interest, and perhaps of enough interest that you will consider signing up at the site. 
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Monday, April 3, 2023Anti-Semitism Is the Default Hate This column presents a) a brief history of antisemitism since before the Common Era, the development of political anti-Semitism on late 19th century Europe, the current adoption of central elements of anti-Semitic propaganda in the wide-spread attacks that a wide variety of Republican politicians are launching against the upcoming trial of the "Stormy Daniels [and maybe Karen McDougall]" case against Trump in New York City.
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Saturday, April 1, 2023Trump Indicated (Ooops, I mean Indicted)" Joining the many others who are is doing it, here I comment on the indictments. I consider that: the indictments are for a variety of felonies; Weisselberg, Pecker and Clifford all came in just before they were issued and may have presented critical new evidence; since the indictments are for felonies, Trump's passport could lifted; Trump is broadly using his "7 Magic Tricks"; and Repub. commentators never say "he's innocent!" 
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023Trump, the Republicans, and the Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Revisit This column primarily presents excerpt writings of mine from the early stages of the pandemic, with a particular focus on what the Trumpites did and did not do. It also presents some major mis-representations of the anti-public health practice community on the pandemic and how to deal with it. As well, it also deals with how the Republicans are approaching it with the hearings they are holding in the House of Reps..
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Thursday, March 16, 2023Ron DeSantis: On the Ukraine Conflict Ron DeSantis is running for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. That is perfectly clear. What is also clear is that he is running first and foremost on race and racism (see the discussion of "WOKE" in the column). To try to "be like Trump" without getting too close, and also to get closer to the "MAGA base," which doesn't like current U.S. Ukraine policy, he has lined up with Tucker C. to become a critic of it.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023On Secession, 1 "Secession" is becoming a major issue for certain leaders of the Republican Party (as referred to by certain observers, like me for example, as the "Republo-fascist Party) such as one of their principal current leaders, Marjorie Taylor Greene. This column is the first in a planned series. It summarizes some of the "why's" of the seceders. Future columns will deal with the practical and political issues, and those of principle
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Friday, March 3, 2023The New York Times on Drugs; and a Proposal for REAL Drug Policy Reform Recently, The New York Times published a Statement, on drug policy. I have been working in this field for the last 50 years or so. In 2016 I published a book entitled: "End the Drug War; Solve the Drug Problem: The Public Health Approach" (PHA). In sum, I see the "drug problem" as a unity, not a duality. The Times' proposal nibbles around the edges, while the PHA proposes a comprehensive way to effectively deal with it.
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Friday, February 17, 2023The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump The "Strange Case" in the title of this column refers to the series of events concerning a President/former-President, that have never before occurred in U.S.history: a series of potentially criminal cases with the man as the central focus of each, all coming together at the same time. He's confronted serial legal problems coming together in the past. But they have all been civil. This time they're criminal. That's different. 
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Thursday, February 9, 2023Some Thoughts of George Bernard Shaw This column presents some of the thought of the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, of whom I long have been an admirer. First, it is noted that Shaw was a champion of the rights of women, which are under serious attack by the Republo-fascist Party. So it seems an appropriate time to refer back to Shaw. Examples of thinking are presented here in the form of Shavian quotes, some famous, not so much. Do enjoy the change. Page 3 of 31 First Last Back Next 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 View All |
