Dr. Steven Jonas

Managing Editor + Contributor

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY) and author/co-author/editor of over 30 books.  In his book The New Americanism: How the Democratic Party Can Win the Presidency (1992, available at http://www.amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com), Dr. Jonas presented his proposal for that “new vision and mission” for the Democratic Party that so many, for so many years, have been urging it to find, and still are. A new vision and mission were obviously needed then.  They are needed  with increasing urgency, as with increasing speed and determination the Republican/Tea Party is driving our nation towards economic and social collapse with the then very likely emergence of frank theocratic fascism.  In this book Dr. Jonas found that vision and mission in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  As of the end of 2011, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and the successors to the Democratic Leadership Council which still influence the Party leadership, the Democratic Party is still looking for it.

Dr. Jonas' occasional Commentaries on this subject and related ones can be found at Truthout and Buzzflash. In addition to being Managing Editor and a Contributing Author for TPJmagazine, Dr. Jonas is also a Contributor to The Planetary Movement, a Contributing Editor for The Greanville Post (http://www.greanvillepost.com/; a Featured Writer for Dandelion Salad;  a Contributor to Op-Ed News.com (http://www.opednews.com/), and a Contributor to TheHarderStuff newsletter (all of which periodically republish his BuzzFlash/Truthout Commentaries).

Dr. Jonas is also the author of The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Under the pseudonym "Jonathan Westminster" this book was originally published in 1996. It was republished with a New Introduction in 2004 (both versions are available on Amazon and the 2004 version is available on Barnes and Noble.com).  It is currently being serialized on TPJ Magazine.  Under Georgite rule, major elements of the “fictional non-fiction” scenario of this work of “future history,” most unfortunately, became all too real.  Although the projected historical scenario departs from what actually happened in 2008, many of the policies of the current Republican/Tea Party appear in the book.  This is so precisely because in the mid-1990s, the Republican Party, under the leadership of such men as Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, were telling us very clearly what they would do if they ever took clear power in Washington and elsewhere around the country.

The similarities between those policies, which will hardly be disappearing from the national political scene anytime soon regardless of what happens in the 2012 elections, and those of the book’s fictional first fascist President, Jefferson Davis Hague, are all too real. With continuing Republican efforts to make things as bad as they can for the Obama Administration, led by Dick Cheney, “Beckoning Savagely Le-vinitating O’RHannibaugh,” Newt Gingrich, the GOP Congressional leadership, the collective "Tea Parties" and their mostly anonymous Citizens United creators/-backers, the threat of a fascist future for our nation has hardly disappeared.  Certainly, the results of the 2010 election have strengthened their hand, while the response of the Obama Administration has been at best weak. 

The 2004 edition of “The 15%” is available at http://www.barnesandnoble.com (search with the book title) and http://www.xlibris.com/ (click on “Bookstore,” then “Search” with the title).  Both versions are available at http://www.amazon.com (go to "Books;" search with the title).

Loren Adams

Contributor

Loren Adams
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Born in Oklahoma 1950; raised in southern California.

Married 36 years; 2 sons -- 35 & 32

Attended colleges in Missouri, Florida and Arkansas. Degree in Secondary Education, minors in history and English.

Taught language arts in Florida public schools.

Technical writer publisher for University of Arkansas several years.

Have written & published 3 books, topic history; most notably Reflections of Generations, 1988.

Currently postal worker with USPS 16 years.

Local Union President of APWU Local #667, Fayetteville AR 11 years
Arkansas State APWU Vice-President 2 years
Editor of Union newsletter Razorback Scheme 3 years

Travel extensively to attend union conventions, APWU & AFL-CIO, in all regions of the country.

Originator and moderator for 2 group-sites:
AmeriVoice Yahoo and AmeriVoice MSN
Sites cater to political activists, most member progressive liberals and Democrats

Donald B. Ardell

Contributor

 

 
Donald B. Ardell wrote High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs and Disease in 1976 and a dozen books since, his latest being Aging Beyond Belief: 69 Tips For REAL Wellness.. He has produced the WELLNESS REPORT since 1984 - nearly 500 editions are in circulation.  The REAL wellness Don promotes is a mindset and lifestyle that celebrates reason, exuberance and liberty, unlike the more common form of wellness featured at worksites that in fact is fake wellness, programming that is medically focused that only seeks to lower health risks. 
 
REAL wellness is about quality of life - fitness is part of it but so is attention to meaning and purpose, applied ethics, environmental sensitivity, happiness, critical thinking, humor, relationships, play and support for excellence and joy.  
 
Don recently ran for mayor of Tampa as "the oldest, fittest, fastest and prettiest of all the candidates" promising to promote "a well city" that would be 4 F - “fit, functional, free and fun.” (He won in every respect (spent less, made fewer enemies, enjoyed the experience more than the other candidates) save getting the most votes.)
 
Don runs, bikes and swims regularly.  He has won several national and two world championships.  He can be reached at 727 471-8993  His website is www.seekwellness.com/wellness/ 

Conn Hallinan

Contributor

Conn Hallinan is currently a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF.com), a "think tank without walls." FPIF is associated with the Institute for Policy Study and draws together more than 600 foreign policy analysts from around the world to examine U.S. foreign policy. Hallinan is also a columnist for the Berkeley Daily Planet, and an occasional free lance medical policy writer. He is a recipient of a Project Censored "Real News Award." He formally ran the journalism program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he was also a college provost. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and lives in Berkeley, California.

Michael Faulkner

Contributor

Michael Faulkner has been writing a two-weekly column, Letter from the U.K., for TPJ since July 2007. He worked for many years as a lecturer in history and political science at Barnet College of Further Education in London. He is a specialist in modern European history, particularly German history. He has published articles on aspects of Soviet, German and Latin American history in British journals and in the U.S. Monthly Review. He has travelled widely in Europe, the United States and Latin America. In the 1980s he pursued research into post-World War Two German history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is married and lives in London. He has two adult daughters, one of whom lives in Guatemala. The other is married to a U.S. citizen and lives in London. He has one grand-daughter

Mickey Walker

Contributor

Mickey Walker, born in Rosebud and raised in the rest of Texas, degreed from Kansas University, played varsity football on athletic scholarship, with Gayle Sayers, John Hadl and other much more famous athletes.

Naval Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island, Ensign, 1964.  Served in two deployments to Viet Nam between 1964-1965 where, as Gunnery Officer, USS Sumner County (LST 1148), supported river and bay ops (all US branches of military services) between Da Nang Harbor and city of Da Nang, Viet Nam.
Lieutenant Junior Grade, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, New Mexico (1965-1967), taught officers of all military services nuclear physics courses, nuclear weapons principles, and nuclear weapons disaster control operations. Served as Secretary of the United States Joint Services NETOPS Team that handled, fixed, and decontaminated nuclear accidents worldwide.

Plant Supervisor, Lieutenant, Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, Virginia, nuclear weapons assembly plant (1967-1969) Supervised retrofits of and modifications to Navy weapons of the Atlantic Coast Naval Fleet.  Compiled and authored comprehensive Disaster Control Manual for Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, Virginia, received commendation.

Sawmill production, (1970-1985) Sales/Marketing rep for Duke City Lumber Company, Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, U S Navy Reserve.

Broker, Municipal Bond Underwriter, Juran and Moody, of Houston, Texas (1985-1998), retired in 1998.  Held Series 7 Broker’s License from 1986-2000.  As a securities broker, he refused to sell or trade even one derivative or a CMO, now known to be the root cause of America’s financial current devastation, bank failures, and mortgage meltdown of subprime mortgage derivatives that bankrupted America in 2008.

From his love of the outdoors and fishing, came the awareness that smokestack industries (mainly coal-fired electric plants) were spewing mercury and other harmful chemicals into the air and into every cc of water in any and all bodies of water in every state in the United States.  Mickey has dedicated himself to writing in hopes that we will clean up and restore our country’s forests and waterways to acceptable standards, to where we can eat more than 8 ounces of fish per month without fear of mercury poisoning.

 

Mickey has written political and outdoor sports articles for several area newspapers and magazines for the past 30 years.  Regular columnist, “The Political Junkies” Magazine for two years.  Now retired, he travels to all points of the globe with wife Andrea and Bichon Frise, Quinn, fishing and chasing the eternal child still within.


Reluctant Junkie

Former Contributor

A youthful 69, Reluctant Junkie is an avid photographer and bicyclist who holds a graduate degree in experimental psychology and has done extensive graduate study in the health sciences. He taught psychology and medical and health courses at the college level, worked as an education coordinator in the college of medicine at one of the largest state universities, and edited the health-fitness section of a major national magazine. He writes under a pseudonym because of the right-wing-fundamentalist political and religious climate where he lives. You'll have to read his columns for a more complete and nuanced explanation.

Stephen Gheen

Editor/Publisher

BIO to come