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 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 If Hillary Is the Only Candidate, Where Does She Stand on Keystone XL? Apparently, our American version of Iran's Guardian Council has issued a fatwa decreeing that Hillary Clinton shall be the only candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016. Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 15, 2014 Sanders Helped Kill Military Pension Cut By Threatening the War Budget On Wednesday, Congress voted to repeal the cut to military pensions for those already in service that was included in the Murray-Ryan budget deal. Read more |
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Views Friday, February 07, 2014 With AIPAC's Power in Doubt, Is Peace With Israel Now Possible? On Feb. 3 The New York Times ran an article that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. Under the headline " Potent Pro-Israel Group Finds Its Momentum Blunted ," the Times' Mark Landler reported that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's top legislative priority, a Senate bill to cripple U.S. Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 25, 2014 Vermont's @SenSanders Is Right: Use War Money to Take Care of Veterans Sometimes Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders does something that reminds us that it does actually matter that he's an Independent in the best sense of the word: thinking for himself, not accepting the D.C. "conventional wisdom" that often defines the limits of reform. Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 04, 2014 Make the 1% Pay for the Iran War Something wonderful happened in Washington in 2013 that can't be celebrated too much: the Pentagon spending lobby experienced a clear defeat in its efforts to prevent any real cuts to the Pentagon budget. When the music stopped on the budget negotiations, those paid to claim that if we gave the Pentagon a haircut foreigners would steal our lunch money came up short: half the planned Pentagon cuts were left in place. Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 26, 2013 Could We Make Opposition to Iran War Obligatory for Blue State Democrats? On August 8, 2006, something world-historical happened in Connecticut: Joe Lieberman was kicked out of the Democratic Party as punishment for the crime of supporting the Iraq war. The retribution delivered to Lieberman established a "red line" for "blue state" Democrats: support the Iraq war, and something like this could happen to you. Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 21, 2013 War with Iran? Sherrod Brown is the Firewall In the halcyon days of your misspent youth, you happily wasted hours reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries instead of doing boring homework. And thus, you remember this famous passage from Silver Blaze: Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 18, 2013 President Karzai, Stand Tall Against US Pressure to Sign the Troop Deal A key reason that many Americans are turned off by politics is that they don't experience news sportscasters who are on their side. The average American, if she read the New York Times, would feel like a Chicagoan watching the Cubs game on St. Louis TV. Her team hits a home run and the sportscaster is melancholy. Her team strikes out and the sportscaster does a dance. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Did Pro-Diplomacy Backlash Stop Steny Hoyer from Nixing Obama's Deal to Prevent War with Iran? A New York Times editorial on December 9 warned that while "either side could undermine the November interim agreement, and with it the best chance in 30 years for a genuine thaw in Iranian-American relations, the more serious threat seems to be on the American side."<img alt="" border="0" class="image-right" src=" http://www.commondreams.org/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/un-general-assembly-u_wong.jpg " style="width: 360px; height: 240px;" title="U.S. Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 16, 2013 TPP, WikiLeaks and the Drone Strike Transparency Bill The Senate Intelligence Committee recently took an important step by passing an intelligence authorization which would require for the first time -- if it became law -- that the administration publicly report on civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes. Read more |