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| − | '''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''') is among a variety of [[CPUSA]] splinter groups claiming the mantle of the [[Left]] spun-off from a series of [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|front groups]] and issue-oriented action "committees."<ref>[http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf The Politics of Peace: What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement?], by John J. Tierney, Capital Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.capitalresearch.org September 14, 2007.</ref> [[A.N.S.W.E.R.]] is the largest of these groups, which also include [[United for Peace and Justice]] (UPJ), [[Code Pink]], [[Not In Our Name]] (NION), the [[Green Party]]. The [[War on Terror]], which included [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]], prompted these groups to form coalitions and seek allies. Their aim is a “struggle” against “oppression” and “imperialism,” code words in the lexicon of revolutionary [[socialism]]. | + | '''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''') was founded by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin in 1963. Most of the money they used came from the Samuel Rubin Foundation.<ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19760 Clinton's sympathy for Marxist terrorists], J.R. Nyquist, ''WorldNetDaily.com, September 27, 1999.</ref> |
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| | + | According to Dr. Rael Jean Isaac, Rubin was a [[Comintern]] member and a [[Communist]] agent. The founders dedicated themselves to helping Communist revolutionaries. Both men hated the United States and openly supported the Communist cause during the [[Vietnam War]]. In the mid 1980s Barnet visited Communist Nicaragua, staying at the home of Thomas Borge, chief of Nicaragua's secret police. |
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| | + | Now declassified, FBI File 100-447935-119 makes special mention of the Institute for Policy Studies, stating that " |
| | + | {{Cquote|this group played an insidious and influential role in developing strategy and tactics for all phases of subversion, seditious activity, racial conflict and revolutionary political agitation and violence. ...}} |
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| | + | ==Operation Iraqi Freedom== |
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| | + | IPS is among a variety of [[CPUSA]] splinter groups claiming the mantle of the [[Left]] spun-off from a series of [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|front groups]] and issue-oriented action "committees."<ref>[http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf The Politics of Peace: What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement?], by John J. Tierney, Capital Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.capitalresearch.org September 14, 2007.</ref> [[A.N.S.W.E.R.]] is the largest of these groups, which also include [[United for Peace and Justice]] (UPJ), [[Code Pink]], [[Not In Our Name]] (NION), the [[Green Party]]. The [[War on Terror]], which included [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]], prompted these groups to form coalitions and seek allies. Their aim is a “struggle” against “oppression” and “imperialism,” code words in the lexicon of revolutionary [[socialism]]. |
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| | Not In Our Name (NION), a satellite of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], decries the War on Terror as a ploy: “We will not stop until all of us are free from your bloodthirsty domination.” Many contmeporary antiwar organizers used to support the [[Soviet Union]] and its proxies such as the [[Vietcong]], the [[Sandinistas]], [[North Korea]], [[Fidel Castro]]’s [[Cuba]] and the Communist guerrillas in [[El Salvador]]. | | Not In Our Name (NION), a satellite of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], decries the War on Terror as a ploy: “We will not stop until all of us are free from your bloodthirsty domination.” Many contmeporary antiwar organizers used to support the [[Soviet Union]] and its proxies such as the [[Vietcong]], the [[Sandinistas]], [[North Korea]], [[Fidel Castro]]’s [[Cuba]] and the Communist guerrillas in [[El Salvador]]. |