AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Lebanon’s politicians show lack of seriousness

06 Dec 2020

Backs to the future, Lebanon’s politicians continue to block the formation of an independent government of experts which might be able to rescue their sinking ship of state from the...

Dynamic duo

06 Dec 2020

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are an odd couple. President-elect Biden is an old White gent who spent 26 years as a senator representing Delaware, the second smallest state in...

Getting back on track

06 Dec 2020

US President-elect Joe Biden has demonstrated that climate change is at the top of his agenda by naming former Secretary of State John Kerry to the post of special climate...

Biased media

06 Dec 2020

Ever scathing about mainstream US print media, Donald Trump owes his 2016 election to cable television’s Fox News, founded in 1996 by Australian-US citizen Rupert Murdoch to broadcast conservative messages...

President Trump’s false claims are highly dangerous

29 Nov 2020

Donald Trump intends to do his utmost to sabotage the incoming administration by cultivating an atmosphere of hostility among his followers toward President-elect Joe Biden and undermining state institutions and...

Trump’s false claims and the ground reality

22 Nov 2020

Donald Trump is making his last stand in the White House, falsely claiming he won the presidential election and trying to subvert the certification in key states of the vote...

Trump continues with his abrasive rhetoric, ‘wild’ acts

15 Nov 2020

Considered unlucky in the West for centuries, Friday the thirteenth was devastating for Donald Trump. The Electoral College count rose to 306 for presidential Democratic rival Joe Biden, the talisman...

Donald Trump will continue to stir hatred, trouble

08 Nov 2020

The world will not be free of Donald Trump even though the result has been called in the US presidential election. Until he leaves the White House on January 20th...

US election outcome depends on pockets of voters in swing states

02 Nov 2020

The US completes voting on Tuesday in the most consequential election since Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won in 1932 in the wake of the Great Depression. Voters who...

A monumental election

29 Oct 2020

This year’s US presidential and Congressional elections are the most consequential in history for both the US and the globe. They are of major importance because they will decide whether...

Michael Jansen

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