AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

World-wide movement

16 Nov 2023

The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza has tested to their limits 300 local volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF or Doctors Without Borders), the independent private global non-governmental association founded...

Biden lagging behind Trump in approval ratings

12 Nov 2023

The United States could lose its perfect credit rating after Moody’s Investors Service said it could downgrade the country’s creditworthiness due to its self-destructive partisan politics. The very suggestion of...

Literature fest

09 Nov 2023

This year’s spectacular Sharjah International Book Fair dwarfs the first book fair in Frankfurt 561 years ago. In Sharjah, Arab and foreign publishers displayed more than 1.5 million books more...

Zelensky is behaving like Winston Churchill

05 Nov 2023

Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began in February 2022, the Biden administration, NATO, US allies and the Western media have portrayed the campaign to defeat Russia as existential for Europe...

Addressing the past

02 Nov 2023

During this week’s visit to Kenya, King Charles III has had to navigate between the British government’s determination that he should focus on UK-Kenya trade and his personal desire to...

Americans getting impatient over Ukraine war

29 Oct 2023

Washington’s NATO partners in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia are beginning to understand they have joined another of the “forever wars” launched by the US from time to time...

Rise to the top

26 Oct 2023

Christiane Amanpour this month celebrated her 40th anniversary with the US Cable News Network (CNN) by declaring that she has during her long career striven to “be truthful not neutral.”...

Silencing ‘Voice’ of the Indigenous in Australia

22 Oct 2023

Voting in a referendum on October 14th Australians overwhelmingly rejected the most serious effort ever made to redress the flagrant injustices inflicted by colonising Europeans on that country’s indigenous “First...

Beacon of hope

19 Oct 2023

The award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her struggle for human rights in Iran was no surprise. By conferring the prize on Mohammadi, the Nobel...

Many Americans dying earlier than expected

15 Oct 2023

The US is probably the richest country in world history but its citizens are dying earlier than those in both poor and wealthy peer countries. Life expectancy is falling rather...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.