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Znet Article Naiman: Kucinich Forces Congress to Debate Afghanistan

Znet Article, March, 08 2010 Robert Naiman
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On Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced H. Com Res. 248, a privileged resolution with 16 original cosponsors that will require the House of Representatives to debate whether to continue the war in Afghanistan. Debate on the resolutio...

Znet Article Naiman: U.S. Poised To Commit War Crimes In Marjah

Znet Article, February, 13 2010 Robert Naiman
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The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major assault in the Marjah district in southern Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are in imminent peril. Will President Obama and Congress act to protect civilians in Marjah, in c...

Znet Article Naiman: Gaza Freedom March: What We've Accomplished So Far

Znet Article, January, 02 2010 Robert Naiman
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Some of us reached Gaza and particpated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent - particularly, American dissent - against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the...

Znet Article Naiman: Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March, Stops Aid Convoy

Znet Article, December, 30 2009 Robert Naiman
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The government of Egypt is taking a spectacularly hard line against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion, blocking peace marchers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe fro...

Znet Article Naiman: Sugarcoating Military Escalation

Znet Article, November, 29 2009 Robert Naiman
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Recent press reports suggest that President Obama is likely to try to sugarcoat his announcement next week of a major military escalation in Afghanistan with talk of "exit ramps": opportunities in the future to evaluate and possibly reduce the U.S...

Znet Article Naiman: Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

Znet Article, November, 22 2009 Robert Naiman
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Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?

Znet Article Naiman: Obama Begins Meaningful Engagement With Iran

Znet Article, October, 09 2009 Robert Naiman
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The relationship between the United States and Iran with respect to Iran's nuclear file is playing out at two levels. One level revolves around formal obligations and agreements and diplomacy. The second level is the long-running contest between t...

Znet Article Naiman: Team Obama Divided on Afghanistan

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Robert Naiman
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Top officials of the Obama administration are divided on the expected request of the Pentagon for more troops in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Friday.

Znet Article Naiman: State Department Recommends Aid Cutoff to Honduras

Znet Article, August, 28 2009 Robert Naiman
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After two months, the State Department is poised to formally declare what was obvious to most of the world: On June 28, Honduras experienced a military coup.

Znet Article Naiman: Coup Protestor Gang-Raped by Honduran Police

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Robert Naiman
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On Friday, Latin America scholars sent an urgent letter to Human Rights Watch, urging HRW to speak out on violations of human rights under the coup regime in Honduras and to conduct its own investigation. HRW hasn't made any statement about Hondur...

Znet Article Naiman: Rep Grijalva Urges US Pressure on Coup Regime

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Robert Naiman
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It's been a month since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed in a military coup. Negotiations on restoring democracy supported by the United States broke down when the coup regime refused to accept a compromise that would allow Zelaya to r...

Znet Article Naiman: Pressure the Coup Regime

Znet Article, July, 29 2009 Robert Naiman
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It's been a month since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed in a military coup. Negotiations on restoring democracy supported by the United States broke down when the coup regime refused to accept a compromise that would allow President Z...

Znet Article Naiman: Can Treasury Sneak IMF Money Through the Supplemental?

Znet Article, May, 19 2009 Robert Naiman
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Almost completely lost in the drama over the war supplemental for Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan is a sneaky play by the US Treasury Department to get $108 billion in tax dollars for the International Monetary Fund through the supplemental. Of cou...

Znet Article Naiman: Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes

Znet Article, May, 07 2009 Robert Naiman
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Until this week, it seemed like the conventional wisdom in Washington was that stopping US drone strikes in Pakistan was outside the bounds of respectable discussion.

Znet Article Naiman: Reform US Foreign Policy. Pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

Znet Article, April, 29 2009 Robert Naiman
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Sometimes an opportunity for reform comes along that is "strategic" in that it changes the playing field for efforts to win other reforms in the future. Passage of the National Labor Relations Act - establishing the right of American workers to or...

Znet Article Naiman: ObamaNation Wants Taliban Talks, Not Military Escalation, in Afghanistan

Znet Article, April, 10 2009 Robert Naiman
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Americans elected President Obama in part based on his promise to put diplomacy and international cooperation, rather than the use and threat of military force, at the center of his foreign policy. With respect to Afghanistan and Pakistan, while t...

Znet Article Naiman: Afghanistan: The Four Questions

Znet Article, March, 28 2009 Robert Naiman
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President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy on Friday - the traditional Washington day for burying things. But there weren't any big surprises. The administration had been dribbling details out through the news media: more troops, more ...

Znet Article Naiman: Ban Cluster Bombs? Yes, We Can!

Znet Article, March, 26 2009 Robert Naiman
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President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are getting big praise around the world for their new Charm Offensive. As far as I'm concerned, the praise is justified. I heard our secretary of state interviewed on BBC a few weeks ago about our dip...

Znet Article Naiman: The New York Times Publishes Roadmap for Taliban Talks

Znet Article, March, 14 2009 Robert Naiman
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If you're interested in a "way forward" in Afghanistan that's not built around killing a bunch of innocent people for no reason, then I strongly encourage you to read every word of Carlotta Gall's report in Wednesday's New York Times, "As US Weigh...

Znet Article Naiman: Missing From the Afghan "Surge": A Congressional Debate

Znet Article, March, 03 2009 Robert Naiman
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A key fact about the recent history of Iraq is absolutely critical to the nascent debate about Afghanistan: There was more to the Iraq "surge" than sending additional troops. So, if folks are going to justify sending more troops to Afghanistan on ...

Znet Article Naiman: "What About Afghanistan?"

Znet Article, June, 15 2008 Robert Naiman
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At the height of the Reagan Administration, it was not uncommon to see a bumper sticker promoted by the College Republicans: "What About Afghanistan?"

Znet Article Naiman: Carter: Blockade of Gaza is an Abomination

Znet Article, April, 19 2008 Robert Naiman
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Carter is not just denouncing the conditions in Gaza, but suggesting a way out of the political impasse that is being used to justify the blockade.

Znet Article Naiman: Obama Glosses Colombian Attack in Ecuador; Clinton Calls for Escalation Against Venezuela

Znet Article, March, 06 2008 Robert Naiman
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The Clinton and Obama forces have asked us to consider who we want answering the phone at the White House at 3 AM. There is little need to speculate. We have a lot of evidence about how they will respond.

Znet Article Naiman: Deescalate with Iran: Free the Irbil Five

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Robert Naiman
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Here's a very modest step the United States could take to deescalate tension with Iran and avoid war: free five Iranian officials that the U.S. arrested in Iraq and has been detaining for the last 10 months. This should be a no-brainer.

Znet Article Naiman: Dems Say "Bunker Buster" Could Be Sign of Planned Attack on Iran

Znet Article, October, 24 2007 Robert Naiman
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I know, I know. You don't want to read another Cassandra diatribe about the danger of a Bush Administration attack on Iran. But this warning is coming to you from Members of Congress looking at the President's budget request. As such, it should be...

Znet Article Naiman: Prove the Intensity of Anti-War Sentiment on October 27

Znet Article, October, 05 2007 Robert Naiman
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Prove the Intensity of Anti-War Sentiment on October 27

Znet Article Naiman: It Only Takes 51 Senators to End This War

Znet Article, September, 12 2007 Robert Naiman
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Regardless of the spin and counter-spin around the various Iraq reports, a key domestic politica...

Znet Article Naiman: Slam Dunk: The Bush Administration Is Trying to Provoke Iran

Znet Article, September, 01 2007 Robert Naiman
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The Bush Administration is once again escalating its confrontation with Iran. Clearly they have multiple motivations for doing so. They're trying to "change the channel" from the...

Znet Article Naiman: Senator Dodd's Bizarre Campaign Against Venezuela

Znet Article, May, 27 2007 Robert Naiman
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While many people were gnashing their ...

Znet Article Naiman: RIP Wolfie -- and European Deniability at the World Bank

Znet Article, May, 20 2007 Robert Naiman
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RIP Wolfie -- and European Deniability at the World Bank

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