AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Loose cannon

14 Dec 2023

In addition to campaigning for re-election Democrat US President Joe Biden is fighting off impeachment efforts by Congressional Republicans who cite his possible implication in the illegal activities of his...

West’s support for Ukraine war is declining

10 Dec 2023

Joe Biden’s Ukraine war has failed to progress as planned. After recapturing the eastern Kharkiv region and its capital city Kherson at the end of last year, Ukrainian forces have...

Environmental campaigner

07 Dec 2023

It was fitting that Britain’s King Charles III should sponsor and deliver the opening address at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai a week ago. He said the...

Kissinger’s death stirs fresh controversy

03 Dec 2023

Reviled by many for his bloody legacy and respected by others for a realpolitik approach to foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 last week has stirred fresh controversy. While...

Trump could win US polls as Biden’s image sags

27 Nov 2023

Since October 7th, Biden has given full backing to Israel’s deadly and devastating war on Gaza. He has divided his Democrat party by alienating young, Arab, and Muslim voters...

Act of love

23 Nov 2023

British film director Ridley Scott launched “Napoleon” last week at a world premier in the grand Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. The large screen film went on cinema...

Violence in other world troublespots too

19 Nov 2023

Violence in the world’s hotspots has soared while international attention has zoomed in on Israel’s war on Gaza. Prior to this deadly and devastating offensive, the focus had been on...

World-wide movement

16 Nov 2023

The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza has tested to their limits 300 local volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF or Doctors Without Borders), the independent private global non-governmental association founded...

Biden lagging behind Trump in approval ratings

12 Nov 2023

The United States could lose its perfect credit rating after Moody’s Investors Service said it could downgrade the country’s creditworthiness due to its self-destructive partisan politics. The very suggestion of...

Literature fest

09 Nov 2023

This year’s spectacular Sharjah International Book Fair dwarfs the first book fair in Frankfurt 561 years ago. In Sharjah, Arab and foreign publishers displayed more than 1.5 million books more...

Michael Jansen

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