AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

US has imposed divide-and-rule system on Iraq

19 Jun 2022

It is ironic that both the US, which claims to be the world’s first democracy, and Iraq face political deadlock nearly two decades after the George W. Bush administration invaded,...

Help or hinder

16 Jun 2022

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is struggling to regain popularity ahead of the coming presidential election which is particularly consequential as it is set to take place during the year...

Majority of US voters support the deal with Iran

12 Jun 2022

US presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to return to the 2015 agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for lifting sanctions. Instead, President Biden sticks to the dangerous and destructive...

New records

09 Jun 2022

Eight women were elected to Lebanon’s 128-member parliament on May 15, two more than in 2018 when a record six women broke through the financial, cultural and social barriers to...

Biden has to overcome key policy hurdles

05 Jun 2022

US President Joe Biden faces multiple challenges which he cannot hope to overcome before either the mid-term legislative elections in November and the presidential and Congressional polls in 2024. ...

Michael Jansen

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