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 Thursday, October 03, 2013 This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff by Robert Naiman We have just a week left to help Burlington, Vermont kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter , the biggest taxpayer ripoff in human history. Read more |
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Views Friday, September 13, 2013 You Can Beat City Hall: How We Stopped the US Bombing of Syria When a group of people have been struggling for a long time to do something very hard, and they finally win a significant victory, it's good to take some time to reflect. It's good to take time to reflect because it's always good to celebrate victories, and the more rare they are, the more important it is to celebrate them. But it's also good to take time to reflect because we might learn something that will help us win more victories in the future. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2013 With War Off the Table, It’s Time for Syria Ceasefire, Negotiations, and Talking to Iran The world has fundamentally changed since August 21. It's time for a fundamental change in U.S. policy towards Syria and Iran. Read more |
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Views Friday, August 30, 2013 162 Representatives, Including 64 Democrats, Call for Debate & Vote Before War With Syria Read more |
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Views Monday, August 26, 2013 President Obama: Don't Strike Syria Without Congressional Approval On Sunday, Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 22, 2013 President Obama, Commute Manning's Sentence to Time Served On August 21, U.S. citizen Bradley Manning (who on Wednesday announced publicly he would, going forward, prefer to be regarded as a woman and called Chelsea) was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information to the public about the killing of civilians in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; drone strikes in Yemen; torture in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Egypt; the coup in Honduras; corruption in Tunisia, the U.S. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 19, 2013 If We Cut Aid to Egypt's Military, Would We Die? If you're not following the debate about whether U.S. aid to Egypt's military should be cut—as required by multiple, clear-cut U.S. laws—in the wake of the military coup that overthrew Egypt's democratically elected President and the subsequent predictable massacres by the Egyptian military of people protesting against the coup, you're missing a great opportunity to learn about how U.S. Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 15, 2013 Amend or Repeal the Espionage Act To Protect Journalists and Whistle-blowers Isn't it high time to amend or repeal the Espionage Act of 1917 so that it can't be used to charge whistle-blowers or journalists with "aiding the enemy"? Read more |
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Views Monday, July 08, 2013 Operation Exodus: The Snowden Accompaniment Flytilla to Political Asylum in Venezuela On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that Venezuela would offer political asylum to NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden . Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 06, 2013 Cut Off U.S. Aid to Egypt? It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law There has been a military coup in Egypt, overthrowing the democratically elected President. By law, the U.S. must cut off aid to Egypt until a democratically elected government has taken office. Read more |