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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 766 week(s) and 1 day(s) 664 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Friday, March 7, 2025Trump, the Plan to Destroy US Const. Democ., and Dealing with Russia/Ukraine: Approaching 45 Days in Office This column deals first with Trump's ongoing efforts, using the detailed plans played out by the Heritage Foundation in Projedt2025, to destroy U.S. Constitutional Democracy and replace it with a form of Presidential Dictatorship. The column then reviews the rapid abandonment by Trump of the Biden Admin.'s policy towards the Russian invasion of Ukraine, towards a now rapidly-developing support of Putin/Russia, and why so.
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Friday, February 21, 2025"Munich I" and "Munich II:" An Historical Comparison In Sept. 1938, a conference was held in Munich, Germany, to deal with German territorial demands in Western Czechoslovakia (not a party to the conference). The major result was giving to Germany what it demanded. That agreement came to be known as "Munich" (or as I call it below, Munich I). With what may happen to Ukraine following the recent conference in that same city, that outcome could come to be known as "Munich, II."
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Monday, February 10, 2025Reversing Marbury v. Madison (for real this time) Vice-President J.D. Vance (one has to wonder if "J.D." really stands for Jefferson Davis) has more-or-less announced that the Trump version of the Executive Branch does not have to pay any attention to the Courts, Supreme (apparently) or otherwise (unless, of course, a court happens to rule in their favor). This position over-rules, in practice, the famous "Marbury v. Madison" decision in which the Court gave itself final say.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025A Partial List of Trump Executive Orders, thru 1/28/25 This is a partial (but still fairly complete) list of Trump Executive orders, through Jan. 28, 2025. It is to be taken as an addendum to the column published just below. click here
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Thursday, January 30, 2025The TrumpRepubloFascist Train Arrives on Track One: Some Early Observations This column is a review of actions the Trump Administration has taken in its earliest days as it quickly moves to replace U.S./Constitutional/Tri-partite separation of powers to one that is run by a "Unitary Executive" (a term freely used by some of Trump's top lieutenants, otherwise known as his string-pullers/puppet masters). As the column makes clear, "unitary Executive" is just a polite term for "fascism." 
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Sunday, January 19, 2025The End of U.S. Constitutional Democracy: Some News and Some Notes This column begins with a short history of how in a variety of nations fascism (defined at the end of the column) has succeeded some form of Constitutional Democracy, beginning in the 20th century. It then goes on to outline briefly how TrumpFascism will begin its takeover of U.S. (bourgeois-to-be-sure) Constitutional Democracy, beginning at 12:01PM on January 20, 2025 (that's tomorrow, for those keeping score).
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025What Trump Will/Might Do on Day 1 of His Presidency (with an Intro. on non-consecutive term Presidents) This column first discusses a few of the details of the only two non-Consecutive terms Presidencies. Then it discusses some of the Trump-endorsement-points made by a former Leftist, Naomi Wolf. Finally, it presents an analysis of an extensive list of "I-gonna-do-this-on-Day-One" pledges made by the incoming Pres. over time, collected for and presented in an (to-my-knowledge-non-copyrighted) issue of Axios. 
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Friday, December 20, 2024"Is it Hair Trump or Herr Trump?" I published the original version of this column back in 2015. As Trump prepares to move back into the White House for a second time, with echoes of "fascist" and "fascism" ringing round him and many of his associates/appointees, I thought that a revisit to it, nine years later, might be of interest. 
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Friday, December 13, 2024Here Comes Trump (again): (As is well-known) he's even Worse this Time Around Briefly, this column is a summary of the fascist-like policies and personnel that Trump is already putting in place. E.g., he has forced the resignation of the FBI Director of the F.B.I., by announcing in advance his nominee for the job, who has already made his top priority going after "Trump enemies." But the column begins with a speculation that Trump might begin his reign, before inauguration, with a "2nd Reichstag Fire."
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024The GOP: the Party of Xenophobia from its Beginnings, and the Party of Racism since Nixon Is TrumpXenophobia something new for the Republican Party? Well, in its current, mass-expulsionist version it is, but ordinary, garden-variety xenophobia has been part of Republican doctrine and policy, since the Party was first established in the 1850's.
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Thursday, November 21, 2024Post-Election Reflections This is a somewhat belated, collection of observations, analyses of the Presidential election. A few major points are: as the votes keep coming in, it is clear that Trump won no "mandate." He may not have even cleared 50% of the popular vote. His four main themes were (and still are): racism, sexism, Christian nationalism and what I call "petitbourgeosieism." His main goal is to destroy as much of the Federal govt. as he can 
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Monday, November 4, 2024A Collection of 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Comments, and a Prediction of Mine Briefly, this column is a collection of comments (with referrals as appropriate) on what a Trump Presidency would mean for the United States, and, at the end, my prediction of how Trump could, to the best of his ability (and for such things he, and his lawyers, have such abilities), get to what he would make into his triumph, and via his Court, reclaim the Presidency. (Note: another column, on secession should be forthcoming.) 
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Monday, October 28, 2024RACE is the Trump Card, I (current series) This column is the first of several concerning Trump's racism, inherent, and RACISM as political doctrine, coming up in this space. While racism as an ideology was apparently bred into him by his father since childhood, the use of it as political doctrine began when he took over the leadership of the anti-Obama "birtherism campaign of 2011-12. This column is a reprise of one that I wrote on the subject over 13 years ago. 
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Friday, October 25, 2024"Which Side are You On?" This column reprises arguments that I've made for supporting the Democrats in the upcoming election. In reality, in terms of whether or not this nation will still be ruled under a form of bourgeois Constitutional Democracy or by a Trumpian fascist dictatorship, there are only two sides, not, as certain minor candidates would have it, three. As the column-concluding song says: "you either are a union man or a thug for JH Blair" 
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Thursday, October 17, 2024The United States is in its Germany 1933, Moment This column goes back to another pre-fascist time, Germany, 1933. As it happened there were two major left-wing political parties. If they had been able to forge an anti-Nazi alliance, it is possible that German fascism could have been aborted, and the history of the world would have been entirely different. We now face the possibility of the onset of fascism in the US. In our case, just a few votes could make the difference 
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Friday, October 4, 2024Post-Season Baseball in New York City This is column on sport (and I do do such on occasion). It is about a singular event that has occurred only three times in the history of baseball. Each of the three occurred to/for New York baseball teams, and two of them occurred just in the past week.
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Monday, September 30, 2024Is The State of Israel on the Road to Self- Destruction? Revised for further clarity. This is a modest revision, for both language-editing and content, of my previously published column on this subject: click here. In a word, it answers the question posed in the article's title: "Yes." And of course then goes on to explain why I have come to that conclusion.
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Saturday, September 28, 2024The Secession Option Should TrumpRepubloFascism triumph in the upcoming election, in one way or another, for the first time since 1860 our nation faces the possibility of Secession, by those states in which the majorities of their populations believe in the Rule of Law and that the parts of Project 2025 that would be implemented would amount to an overturning of Constitutional government. Some of the major practical problems are also considered.
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Saturday, September 21, 2024Is The State of Israel on the Road to Self- Destruction? This column briefly discusses the reason why, in my estimation, under its present politco-economic leadership, the State of Israel is on the road to self-destruction.
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Thursday, September 12, 20249-11 23rd Anniversary Retrospective IV: 20 Questions This column revisits one that I published in this space on the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Tragedy/Disaster. This column has only minor changes from the original, which are noted. Principally, it presents 20 questions concerning the events and their aftermath, which, as it happens have yet to be satisfactorily responded to. Thus, in my view, it is important to re-state and revisit them. Page 1 of 34 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
