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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 836 week(s) and 3 day(s) 717 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 195 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010Airbrushing Bush, and Why The GOP establishment is terrified of something. GWB's book comes out at a particular time. The way he is being treated in the media to which he is giving access appears in the Commentary's title. My thought on just why this is all happening now appears at the end. 
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013The Golden Age of US Capitalism Capitalism is working very well --- for the capitalists. A quote from the great Senator Bernie Sanders illustrates that truth. That is what this column is about. 
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Saturday, May 2, 2020Trump's Magical Thinking Pt. 3: 'There Shall be No National Testing Program --- and the Virus Will Magically Go Away' This is the 3rd column on Trump's Magical Thinking. Beginning in childhood, it has propelled this ignorant, unintelligent, and poorly educated man to where he now sits. Trump has lived a life of enemies. They have always been people. The Magic Tricks he used to defeat them and move forward has been the subject of the previous columns. This one focuses on a new trick, designed to make the pandemic go away (in his mind). 
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017Trumpism and the Ruling Class: Will the U.S. Ever Recover? Major, draconian, cuts to health social services for the poor and presently not-so-poor are coming via the Trump Budget (which will be passed by the Republican congress in one form or another). There will be long-term consequences (like otherwise unnecessary deaths) which will be very hard to reverse down the road. Eventually, unrest will arise, and then . . . 
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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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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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Thursday, August 7, 2014The Significance of Dick Cheney, Part I A while back I did yet another of my columns on Dick Cheney, when he had made another one of his periodic reapparances from the Cheneycave, this time to take on Obama on Ukraine. Since Obama has taken such a tough stand on Ukraine, making sure, for example, that there are no negotiations over the possibility of Federal status for the Eastern provinces, Cheney has been eerily silent. This is the first of two-parter on the man
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Sunday, March 25, 2012Netanyahu's and AIPAC's Iran War-- Is It Really a War Against Obama and Democrats? Ever wonder why the Israeli Right and their AIPAC/GOP US allies are making such a thing about the Iran-bomb and a potential bombing of Iran, with or without US support? Analyzing the alternatives and the possible outcomes of such an attack (in violation of the UN Charter and thus Article VI of the US Constitution, but no one on the Right cares about those considerations), one comes to a very interesting conclusion. 
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Thursday, December 9, 2021Kyle Rittenhaus, the 'Trial,' and the formation of the U.S.S.A. (Orig.: 'Die Sturmabteilung') The Rittenhouse "trial" was a farce. That is what this column is about in part. But it is also that a process which seems to be occurring in this country, one to create a series of private "militias," very similar in function, and to a certain extent in form, to the historically most famous of them all, the Nazi Sturmabteilung, the "Storm Division," which helped propel Hitler to power. Ah, but what color will their shirts be? 
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Monday, November 30, 2015The Modern Middle East Imperialist War III: What's it All About The United States is now in the midst of MMEI No. III. This one is rather more complicated, and not easy to figure out, since there seem to be so many sides involved, with shifting alliances, sometimes from month-to-month. this multi-pronged, multi-front battle has at its center Iran and the hatred of key Arab states and Turkey for it. 
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Thursday, September 28, 2017Is Trump Crazy? Personality disorder? Or crazy like a fox? Trump. Why he does what he does. All part of a plan, and he does have a set of policies --- really. As for Roy Moore , he does too. Outside of the Republican "mainstream?" Well, that stream has been moving to the Right (facing downstream) for years. Indeed, it moves with the force of the Republican Right-wing Imperative, of which Moore is the latest product. And believe me, Trump will be just fine with it. 
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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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Sunday, September 9, 2012Chick-fil-A, the Party of Hate, and the 2016 GOP Presidential Nomination Remember when the name "Chick-fil-A" was all the rage in national politics? Why it was only about a month ago, not that you would know it now, with the national party conventions underway. But given what came out of the Republican Convention, both in its platform and certain choice words that emanated from one speaker after another, the Chick-fil-A thing is worth a re-visit. It truly symbolizes what GOP politics has become. 
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013The Republican Party and the Affordable Care Act This column, originally written on 11/14/13, presents some of the history of the relationship between the GOP and national health ins. over time, and of the very bad attempts at promotng their respective plans made by Pres's. Clinton and Obama. It concluded with some speculation on site hacking that perhaps took place. This version adds important policy commentary by Norman Solomon, and some heft to the hacking speculation. 
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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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Wednesday, June 14, 2017Trump: The 'Peace' Candidate Trump the "peace" candidate? I don't think so (and actually never have). Now, with his re-affirmation of NATO Article 5 and anti-Russian statements coming from members of his Administration, the U.S. is moving rapidly back towards its original Russia policy. 
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Friday, April 3, 2015Indiana, Religious Liberty, and Religious War To permit one person or business to claim exemption from having to abide by the protections of the 14th Amendment based on their religious belief, as against another's religious belief, places the discriminator's religious belief on a higher level, gives it more value, than the religious belief of the person discriminated against. 
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020Fascism, the U.S. Ruling Class, and Trump The upcoming US election is primarily a battle between the two wings of the U.S. ruling class. One believes that the best way to maintain its control over the state apparatus is through a return to a set of democratic reforms, along the lines of an expanded "New Deal." The other is the wing that believes that its control can only be maintained through the imposition of fascism. It all revolves around the nature of the State. 
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Thursday, March 5, 2020Is the UK Tabloid Racist Hounding of Meghan Markle Just a Murdoch Diversion to Allow the Tories to Seize More Power? There has been a long battle over the UK remaining in the EU: "Brexit." The right-wing British tabloids have been roaring for Brexit. After a recent Parliamentary election produced a large Right-Wing "Tory" majority "Leave" is done. They are now using their majority to make major changes in the UK Constitution. The tabloids have been roaring even more loudly about Meghan and Harry, driving them out of the country: it's a cover 
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017"Losing the Abortion Wars" The Republicans and their allies on the Christian Right, want to impose their religious dogmas on the whole country, and criminalize abortion. The abortion-rights movement must soon face this issue of religious authoritarianism, or the battle will be lost. Page 6 of 36 First Last Back Next 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 View All |
