AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Erdogan continues to face flak over Syria moves

24 Jul 2022

Since May Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to attack Kurdish forces in northern Syria and has mobilised both Turkish troops and surrogate Syrian militiamen near the border....

Hard stance

21 Jul 2022

Joe Manchin is a Democrat senator from the small eastern state of West Virginia which is famous for its wooded mountains, coal mining, and logging industries. Born in 1947 in...

US leadership in Middle East at a crossroads

17 Jul 2022

By visiting the region at this time, US President Joe Biden has reversed his policy of ignoring its geographic, economic, and political importance while shifting his focus to China, which...

Civilised scenery

14 Jul 2022

Many years ago during a visit to Cairo my three-year old daughter Marya and I were taken on a tour by Judge Jasper Brinton, an historic figure who had presided...

Shinzo Abe meant stability, Johnson chaos

10 Jul 2022

Britain greeted Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation as chairman of the Conservative Party, the first stage in his removal from the prime ministry with relief and “Bye, bye Boris,” while...

Continued resentment

07 Jul 2022

On July 5, Algeria celebrated the 60th anniversary of its independence after an eight-year battle in a 132-year-long war liberation against a brutal and cruel French colonial and colonising regime....

Biden still procrastinating on Iran deal

03 Jul 2022

EU-mediated US-Iran talks in Doha ended a week ago with each side blaming the other for failing to achieve a breakthrough in deadlocked negotiations over rescuing the 2015 agreement limiting...

One way ticket

30 Jun 2022

Last weekend 56 Commonwealth heads of government and state met at summit level in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, for their first gathering in four years as Britain, the prime mover,...

The US and West have ignored the plight of countries

26 Jun 2022

Preoccupied with arming Kyiv and sanctioning Russia for invading Ukraine on February 24th, the US and the Western powers have ignored the plight of countries and peoples afflicted with US-driven...

A problematic figure

23 Jun 2022

As expected, Britain’s hard-line Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition to the US of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange where he would face trial on 17 charges which could inflict...

Michael Jansen

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