Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a 2020 presidential candidate, is set to endorse policy proposals written in part by a think tank known for its defense of Communist governments during the Cold War, The Washington Free Beacon is reporting.
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) helped draft the policies. The Free Beacon said the IPS served “as a de facto Soviet mouthpiece during the Cold War.”
According to BuzzFeed News, policy experts predict the policy proposals would “dramatically reduce” the racial wealth divide by raising taxes on the very rich and by instituting other measures.
A draft of the policy report, “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide” is said to be a guide for “actionable” steps.
The IPS is one of three groups behind the report.
Meanwhile the Free Beacon said Emory Professor Harvey Klehr dedicated an entire chapter of his book, “Far Left of Center,” to the IPS.
The Free Beacon quoted Klehr as characterizing the IPS as “an intellectual nerve center for the radical movement, providing sustenance and support for a variety of causes, ranging from nuclear and anti-intervention issues to support for Marxist insurgencies."
“IPS fellows have consistently maintained that the Soviet threat is largely non-existent and a product of the military-industrial complex," he wrote, according to the Free Beacon.
And the website noted that former Communist spy Ladislav Bittman wrote in his book "The KGB and Soviet Disinformation" that the Soviets were "particularly interested" in IPS, whose "nucleus" was composed of "researchers and scholars with Marxist perceptions that Soviet foreign and military policies pose no threat to Western democracies."
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