AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Loved and loathed

03 Aug 2023

Few musicians who become international stars and celebrities also become authors of change in their homelands. Ireland’s Sinead O’Connor did both in her too short, tragic and tortured life which...

The conflict continues to damage Ukraine

30 Jul 2023

Kyiv’s delayed, slow-moving offensive against the well-fortified Russian front line in eastern Ukraine has given rise to concern that the war is stalemated and conflict could continue until one side...

Biden should scrap idea behind cluster bombs

23 Jul 2023

US President Joe Biden’s delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine is controversial and shameful. He announced that the decision to agree to Ukraine’s demand for cluster bomb shells for its...

Tendentious reporting over humanitarian aid to Idlib

20 Jul 2023

Last week the Western media strove mightily to skew reports of the squabble which initially erupted between Western powers and Russia over the delivery of humanitarian aid to the northern...

Ukraine has lost more than Russia in war

16 Jul 2023

The Ukraine war was meant to be a win-win conflict for all concerned but Russia. It is in fact a lose-lose campaign for those involved. Ukraine is, of course, the...

An invisible existence

13 Jul 2023

The ban on Afghan beauty salons and women’s hairdressers, set to take effect at the end of this month, is the latest tactic in the Taliban’s campaign to erase women...

Financial curbs on Syria must be lifted first

18 Jun 2023

Last week the European Union mounted its seventh conference to raise money for Syria and received pledges of Euros 9.6 billion in grants and loans, half a billion Euros short...

Absurd claims

15 Jun 2023

International personalities can make or break policies. Take the example of the International Criminal Court (ICC) where Briton Karim Khan has sidelined investigations of Israeli occupation policies in Palestine. Probes...

Mass shootings are not confined to America

11 Jun 2023

US mass shootings are infectious. Last month Serbia suffered two mass shootings. The first took place on May 5th when a 13-year-old boy killed nine at a Belgrade school, in...

Always centre stage

08 Jun 2023

A comic-actor-turned-war-leader Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a major character in a European tragic drama which could usher in nuclear exchanges between Russia and NATO. He remains an actor...

Michael Jansen

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