AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Trump ‘a danger’ to democracy, national security

28 Aug 2022

Donald Trump is fighting four criminal investigations while campaigning to be chosen as the Republican party’s presidential candidate. He is facing indictment in New York City over dubious business practices,...

A principled stand

25 Aug 2022

Liz Cheney has become a heroic figure for all of us who cannot stomach Donald Trump and rightly fear his re-election in 2024. A second Trump term in office would...

Al-Sadr-Coordination Framework faceoff goes on

21 Aug 2022

Baghdad remains trapped by the confrontation between Iraqi nationalist cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr and Iran-aligned Coordination Framework. If the face-off continues, commentators fear violence could erupt as tempers fray in the...

Financial meltdown

18 Aug 2022

Bassam al-Shaikh Hussein became an instant hero a week ago when he entered the Federal Bank of Lebanon with a hunting gun and a jerrycan of petrol to demand his...

Raising the prestige of the Indian Tricolour

14 Aug 2022

This morning, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted the national flag from the wall of the Red Fort in New Delhi and, in a televised address to his 1.39 billion...

Contradicting the Western narrative

11 Aug 2022

Two highly important reports issued last week have countered the Western narrative on the Ukraine war and could contribute to the push-back against NATO’s proxy campaign against Russia. The first...

Erdogan gets close to Putin, keeps Biden at a distance

07 Aug 2022

The results of Friday’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart have been couched deliberately in such vague terms as to make it a secretive summit. ...

Standing up to power

04 Aug 2022

The family of slain Palestinian-American al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has taken on the Biden administration for refusing to hold Israel accountable by rejecting a US investigation into her death....

Biden has undermined trust with Iran

31 Jul 2022

Last week European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urged Washington and Tehran to accept the final draft of the 2015 agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for lifting...

Race to the top

28 Jul 2022

Liz Truss entered the British Conservative Party leadership contest with a solid lead of 24 points over challenger Rishi Sunak although policy differences between the two are not dramatic. ...

Michael Jansen

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