AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Speaking out for Floyd

08 Apr 2021

A teenage girl called Darnella Frazier is one of the four child heroines of the US trial of policeman Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd on May...

Iran deal, US must make some concessions

04 Apr 2021

Washington has finally decided to address seriously the campaign pledge by President Joe Biden to re-join the 2015 agreement for limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for lifting sanctions. High...

Back in order

01 Apr 2021

US President Joe Biden has succeeded in getting his urgent piece of legislation adopted by both the House of Representatives and Senate. Financial aid payments are going out to middle...

Ever Given, is a mammoth problem for Egypt

28 Mar 2021

Some ships are too big to sail just as some corporations and financial institutions are too big to fail. Both massive ships and businesses do, of course, fail simply because...

Anti-Asian violence

25 Mar 2021

It is open season on Asians in the US, a country founded by colonialism and built by racism. The massacre of six Asian women at spas in the Atlanta area...

Netanyahu courts Palestinian Arabs with eye on polls

21 Mar 2021

Tomorrow’s election in Israel will be a “cliffhanger.” Polls reveal it is too close to call. Every vote will count as every Knesset seat will count in the formation of...

Protesting on produce

18 Mar 2021

A mass demonstration by farmers on the outskirts of the Indian capital has exposed just how rapidly democracy has deteriorated in the world’s largest democracy since Prime Minister ...

Tough US sanctions on Syria won’t ensure stability

14 Mar 2021

One can only hope that the Biden administration will heed the warning of UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan that punitive US sanctions on Syria undermine Arab...

Big revelations

11 Mar 2021

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan Markle, his duchess, made their case against Britain’s royals during last Sunday’s two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast across the globe. Meghan revealed...

Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq a morale-booster

07 Mar 2021

Pope Francis has done Iraq a great service. His visit, the first ever by a Catholic pontiff, put that martyred country back on the map of world news for three...

Michael Jansen

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