AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

‘Fake news’ crier Trump lies over Iran drone incident

24 Jun 2019

Donald Trump has uttered more than 10,800 lies and false statements since taking office in January 2017. His comments and tweets on why he cancelled a US bombing mission against...

Justice for wildlife

20 Jun 2019

Many of you may be familiar with the CSI New York, Miami, and Las Vegas television series but, I imagine, you have never heard of the real-life CSI-Wildlife, Ashland. The...

Protection sought for kids in overcrowded camps

17 Jun 2019

The UN children’s agency, Unicef, has called on the homelands of thousands of children of foreign fighters held in camps and orphanages in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to be reclaimed...

It is Juliana vs US

13 Jun 2019

On June 4th a group of 21 young people suing the US government over its failure to tackle climate change had their day in a federal district court in Portland...

Loose cannon Trump unveils salvos — in Europe

09 Jun 2019

There was little domestic interest in Donald Trump’s high profile meetings with royals in London, brief encounter with the Irish prime minister at Shannon airport and carefully scripted words at...

The Nile is running dry

07 Jun 2019

The Nile, the life giver of ancient, medieval and modern Egypt is running dry. The world’s longest river, the Nile has watered and nourished Egypt with silt from deep in...

Lessons that have not been learnt yet

02 Jun 2019

Ahead of the US Memorial Day holiday on May 27th, Elliot Ackerman wrote an opinion article for the New York Times entitled “A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited.” This...

The threat to freedom

01 Jun 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have condemned the US incitement of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange as a threat to freedom of the press guaranteed by...

Regime change is the name of Trump’s game with N.Korea, Iran

26 May 2019

North Korea has joined Iran in rejecting the Trump administration’s approach to bilateral dealings. Pyongyang’s foreign ministry spokesman said his country will never resume talks with the US unless the...

Curbing freedom of speech

23 May 2019

Turkish Cypriot newspaper owner-publisher Sener Levent and journalist Ali Osman have been cleared by a court in Turkish-occupied northern Nicosia of insulting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The bold black...

Michael Jansen

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