Robert Naiman
Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy. Naiman has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He has masters degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Illinois and has studied and worked in the Middle East. You can contact him here.
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Views Monday, April 03, 2017 Pocan, Amash Invoke War Powers as Trump Mulls Pushing Yemen Into Famine The White House is scheduled to consider this week a proposal from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to directly engage the U.S. military in Saudi Arabia’s war against the Houthis in Yemen, including a planned United Arab Emirates attack on the port of Hodeida. On Friday, March 31, the U.N. special... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 07, 2016 Sen. Mike Lee: U.S. Can't Bomb Syrian Forces Without Congressional Approval According to multiple voices in the DC press, the idea of the U.S. bombing Syrian government forces is "back on the table" this week. On Sunday, under the headline, " Four military options for Obama in Syria ," The Hill reported that the administration could be weighing four possible options: "No-... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 26, 2016 9/11 Families Deserve Their Day in Court Against Saudi Arabia This week the House and Senate are expected to vote on whether to override the President's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act ("JASTA"). JASTA would allow 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia over allegations Saudi officials were linked to the 9/11 attacks. The bill makes no judgment... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 19, 2016 Contesting the U.S.-Saudi Bromance With 1,000 Cuts On September 8, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Al Franken (D-MN) introduced a bipartisan resolution, SJ Res 39 , to disapprove the $1.15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia notified to Congress on August 8. New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich joined SJ Res 39 as... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 06, 2016 #StopArmingSaudi: 4 Reasons It's Plausible To Try A key hurdle to engaging more people in obstructing the Administration's proposed arms deal with Saudi Arabia has been convincing them that it is politically plausible to try to do so. Outside of the Pentagon-industrial complex, few would argue that sending more weapons to Saudi Arabia is an... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 15, 2016 How Blocking the Saudi Arms Deal Could Help Stop Lame Duck TPP In this strategy memo on why progressive Democrats and Empire-skeptic Republicans should do what they reasonably can to assist efforts to block the recently proposed Saudi arms deal, I will cover four points. 1. What's going on 2. Why this is a winnable fight 3. Why blocking/trying to block the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 03, 2016 Super Tuesday: Sanders Defeats Debs Every American on the left knows that when labor leader Eugene Debs ran for President in 1920 as a socialist, he got a million votes. I don't know if Howard Zinn would approve this message, but by this standard, Team Sanders is arguably kicking Debs' butt. Bernie Sanders has more than a million... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 19, 2016 How Secretary of State Clinton Enabled the Coup in Honduras On June 28, 2009, when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a military coup. The United Nations, the European Union, and the Organization of American States condemned the coup, and on July 5, Honduras was suspended from... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 31, 2016 Elizabeth Warren: It Matters Greatly Who the Democratic President Is An unfortunate fact of political debate is that one often feels compelled to state and re-state what one thinks should be obvious, because a bunch of folks are apparently having success at pretending that something which seems obviously true is not true. Right now, a bunch of people seem to be... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 19, 2015 To Help Thwart ISIS, Let's Take Baby Steps Away From Saudi Arabia and Turkey Here's two things we know for sure from key advances of the Obama Administration's foreign policy: our relationships with other countries aren't set in stone, and the choices aren't merely "friend" and "foe." We can shake hands without getting married, and we can pivot away without getting divorced... Read more |