AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Syria has to extricate itself from warfare

30 Jan 2022

The attacks on an army post in north-eastern Iraq and the Kurdish prison in Hasaka in northern Syria appear to mark the resurgence of Daesh in the countries where the...

Off the radar

27 Jan 2022

Deprived of the presidency by an election he still claims was fraudulent, citizen Donald Trump plays golf with visitors from Washington and members at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach,...

Joe Biden’s policies badly dent his popularity

23 Jan 2022

US President Joe Biden’s grades on his one-year report card are mixed but his approval rating has fallen from 56 per cent at his inauguration in January 2021 to 41...

A firm stance

20 Jan 2022

More than 40 film stars have supported Harry Potter actress Emma Watson after she was sharply rebuked by Israeli officials for expressing solidarity with Palestinians on social media. The British...

Game over for Novak’s anti-vaccine serve

16 Jan 2022

Three Federal Court judges put an end to a two-week media feast by cancelling a visa for Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic who had set his cap at winning another...

Up in arms

14 Jan 2022

An online petition signed by more than a million people has urged the current British prime minister to call on the Queen to revoke the knighthood awarded to Tony Blair,...

No room for defeat in Trump’s ego

09 Jan 2022

Writing in the Washington Post, self-identified conservative columnist Max Boot cited President Joe Biden’s comment in his January 6th address in the Capitol that Donald Trump “has created and spread...

Patriotic portrayals

06 Jan 2022

Iraq’s new parliament is set to meet on Sunday for its first session since a plurality of seats was won in the October 10th election by nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada...

Conditions are no better now than last year

02 Jan 2022

The death of South African churchman and peacemaker Desmond Tutu has deprived humanity of the sole surviving global politician with a moral compass while the retirement of German Chancellor Angela...

Tutu’s stance

30 Dec 2021

South Africa’s statesman Desmond Tutu was one of the greatest global leaders of the last half of the 20th century and the first 20 years of the 21st. His death...

Michael Jansen

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