{"id":732871,"date":"2021-09-09T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=732871"},"modified":"2021-09-09T05:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T09:06:02","slug":"koch-funded-quincy-institute-joins-communists-to-demand-biden-administration-lift-sanctions-on-us-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/koch-funded-quincy-institute-joins-communists-to-demand-biden-administration-lift-sanctions-on-us-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch-Funded Quincy Institute Joins Communists To Demand Biden Administration Lift Sanctions on US Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkoch-funded-quincy-institute-joins-communists-to-demand-biden-administration-lift-sanctions-on-us-enemies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=732871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.7\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The US Peace Council and the International Action Center are openly supportive of totalitarian regimes<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/800px-Hammer_and_Sickle_on_Flag_of_Soviet_Union-540x359-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2014\/09\/800px-Hammer_and_Sickle_on_Flag_of_Soviet_Union-540x359.jpg 540w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2014\/09\/800px-Hammer_and_Sickle_on_Flag_of_Soviet_Union-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2014\/09\/800px-Hammer_and_Sickle_on_Flag_of_Soviet_Union-e1631134443189.jpg 736w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Communist hammer and sickle logo from the flag of the Soviet Union \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 September 9, 2021 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"115.8126349892\">\n<p>The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is joining a coalition of civil society groups that call for President Joe Biden to roll back sanctions against Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-six organizations, including two avowedly Communist groups, on Tuesday submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/charityandsecurity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Letter-to-President-Biden-on-Sanctions-Review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter<\/a> to Biden that urges him to implement &#8220;significant&#8221; changes to the United States&#8217; sanctions policy. The U.S. Peace Council and International Action Center are openly supportive of Communist and totalitarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Peace Council has cozied up to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and accused the U.S. government of launching coups <a href=\"https:\/\/uspeacecouncil.org\/u-s-instigated-violent-coup-against-ukraine-take-action-to-expose-the-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Ukraine<\/a> and Venezuela. The International Action Center recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/iacenter.org\/2021\/09\/03\/sordid-source-of-lab-leak-accusation-against-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report<\/a> that parrots the popular Chinese talking point that the coronavirus originated in a U.S. military lab in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Sent in the wake of the Biden administration&#8217;s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a policy long backed by the isolationist-leaning Quincy Institute, the letter demonstrates the organization&#8217;s ongoing efforts to push Biden&#8217;s foreign policy to the left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We write to urge you to complete the administration&#8217;s sanctions policy review as expeditiously as possible, to make its findings public, and to implement significant and structural changes to U.S. sanctions policy,&#8221; the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories offer to provide &#8220;expertise&#8221; to the Biden administration during its sanctions policy review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe we have valuable insight to share, and your administration has said it seeks such input,&#8221; they write.<\/p>\n<p>The letter is the Quincy Institute&#8217;s first known collaboration with the U.S. Peace Council and the International Action Center, two of the harshest critics of U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Peace Council has been a reliable defender of America&#8217;s adversaries since it launched in 1979 as an affiliate of the Soviet Union. In recent years, the group has cozied up with Assad and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the disputed president of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The International Action Center has conducted similar &#8220;anti-imperialist&#8221; activism since its founding in 1992. Its founder, former attorney general Ramsey Clark, gained notoriety for defending war criminals&nbsp;Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, Charles Taylor, and Saddam Hussein. Clark also represented two Nazi camp guards, Karl Linnas and Jakob Reimer, who faced war-crime charges after they immigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Quincy Institute did not respond to a request for comment. The International Action Center and the U.S. Peace Council did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Another signatory, CODEPINK, is waging a campaign called &#8220;China Is Not Our Enemy&#8221; to oppose the Biden administration&#8217;s pending arms sales to Taiwan. Many of the group&#8217;s arguments echo Chinese Communist Party talking points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given China&#8217;s overwhelming military superiority over Taiwan, more weapons will do nothing to enhance Taiwan&#8217;s self-defense; instead they will further deepen Taiwan&#8217;s military reliance on the U.S., making U.S. involvement in a future China-Taiwan clash increasingly likely,&#8221; CODEPINK&#8217;s campaign site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/taiwanarmsalert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>. &#8220;Sending more weapons to Taiwan will surely upset Chinese leaders, further sabotaging opportunities for much-needed cooperation on climate change, pandemic relief, nuclear nonproliferation, and other issues of common concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CODEPINK and 47 other organizations signed a July letter that urges the Biden administration to prioritize cooperating with China on climate change rather than looking into Beijing&#8217;s litany of human rights abuses. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/soros-funded-groups-call-on-biden-to-ignore-chinas-abuses-in-order-to-fight-climate-change\/\">reported<\/a> that several of the other cosigners take funds from left-wing billionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security The US Peace Council and the International Action Center are openly supportive of totalitarian regimes  The Communist hammer and sickle logo from the flag &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}