AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

Iraq and Lebanon: A tale of two nations

25 Oct 2020

Last October Iraqis and Lebanese rose up against misrule, corruption, rampant unemployment and the lack of essentials like water, electricity and decent health care and education. Demonstrations in Iraq have...

Armed and dangerous

22 Oct 2020

During the first US presidential campaign debate Donald Trump was asked about the “Proud Boys,” a white supremacist militia, he said he knew little about them but called on them...

October Revolution has stalled but not failed

18 Oct 2020

Thousands of Lebanese returned to the streets and squares across their country on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that has begun to reshape their country. Wearing...

An ironic appointment

15 Oct 2020

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a Muslim, an immigrant and a proud Moroccan with Belgian and US citizenship has been chosen to head Donald Trump’s fast-track effort to develop and distribute a...

Trump brings hardship to many distressed families

11 Oct 2020

“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” is a version of an ancient saying which appears to apply to Donald Trump. His decision to end bipartisan negotiations over...

Michael Jansen

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