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, 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 |
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Views Wednesday, July 03, 2013 If They Can Lie About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria & Iran In March, something happened in Congress that all Americans who love the rule of law need to hold in our teeth. Senator Ron Wyden asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" To which Clapper responded, "No, sir ... Not wittingly." Read more |
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Views Friday, June 07, 2013 In Yemen, Let's Redeem President Obama's War on Terror Reform Speech Have you ever gotten on a boat or a train when you didn't have exactly the right ticket for that boat or that train at that particular time? True confessions: I have. The situation requires a certain degree of chutzpah - self-confidence in your ability to redeem a promise for more than some people think it is actually worth. Read more |
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Views Friday, April 19, 2013 April 25: A Historic Day to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget When I was an undergraduate in college - thirty years ago - I saw a poster in someone's apartment. It was a photograph of a group of kids scurrying happily about in a school playground. The caption read: Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 09, 2013 Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead The boss organizes the workers, union organizers like to say. Say what you want about President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security and veterans' benefits with the "chained CPI." He did accomplish one thing for liberals that they often have a hard time doing on their own. He united them - in opposition to his proposal. Read more |
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Views Friday, April 05, 2013 #ChainedCPI? For Every Social Security Judas, a Primary Challenge The moment of truth has arrived. According to press reports, President Obama has openly embraced cutting Social Security and veterans benefits by imposing the "chained CPI" cut on cost of living increases, which is like signing in blood the idea that the federal government's priorities should be owned by the 1% rather than by the 99%. Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 24, 2013 Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech with Gaza's Ark There's a half-empty way and a half-full way of looking at President Obama's Jerusalem speech about the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Let the Voices of Drone Strike Victims Be Heard on Capitol Hill Read more |