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Biden Quietly Nixes Trump-era Rule Combating Chinese Communist-Funded ‘Propaganda’ Centers

February 9, 2021February 8, 2021 Ohio Star Staff

The Trump administration attempted to enact a policy that would force American universities to reveal cooperation with chapters of the Confucius Institute. President Joe Biden quietly revoked the policy a few days after his inauguration.

Axios reported that in the final days of his presidency, Trump enacted a policy that would compel primary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institute. Under the policy, schools that do not report information would lose certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Commentary: Welcome to Soviet America

February 3, 2021February 2, 2021 Ohio Star Staff

America is changing in bewildering ways since Donald Trump left office. For the first time in our nation’s history, the president of the United States, out in the open and for all to see, is a demented, senile figurehead. With the support of a media class, ostensibly charged with keeping him in check but instead behaving like the old Soviet Pravda, Biden is able to cover up his otherwise obvious physical, mental, and moral infirmities.

Jen Psaki Donned Hammer-and-Sickle Hat During 2014 Meeting with Russian Officials

December 2, 2020December 1, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

Photos have resurfaced of Jen Psaki, the incoming Biden White House press secretary, meeting with Russian officials in 2014 while wearing a hat stitched with the hammer-and-sickle, a symbol of the communist Soviet Union, which caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 20th century.

Wright State University Bars Class Critical of Marxism

August 9, 2020August 8, 2020 Ben Kolodny

A Wright State University (WSU) economics professor has been barred from teaching a class critical of Marxism to the general student body.

Professor Evan Osborne had his repeated requests to teach a class critical of communist economist Karl Marx to non-honors students denied, reports The College Fix.

Counselor in Texas School District Shares List of Marxist Literature as ‘Tool’

August 2, 2020August 1, 2020 Sam Medley

A lengthy email from a counselor in Plano Independent School District (PISD) sent to colleagues contained three attachments including, among other things, a list of overtly Marxist media for use in classrooms, and a study guide for those “trying to become better allies.”

The attachments highlight materials like The 1619 Project (which claims America’s history is based on racism and slavery), talking points concerning the deaths of George Floyd; Breonna Taylor; and Ahmaud Arbery; and suggested reading lists including Marxist and Communist literature.

Commentary: Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, and Normalization Are the Four Stages of a Marxist Takeover

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

by Scott McKay It’s important to understand that this is a revolutionary moment in American history, and it isn’t a bad idea to act in ways that would fall under the traditional description of “accordingly.” But it’s also important to understand that the revolution taking place in America is…

Commentary: Hong Kong Is the Place Chinese Communists Are Working to Destroy

July 12, 2020July 11, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

China’s communist government has brought an end to the siege of Hong Kong, or at least a beginning of an end. Their secret police seized a 33-story hotel to establish a new headquarters in the city of nearly 7.5 million people who have lived most of their lives in a human rights-supporting, Western-style democratic system.

Commentary: Black Lives Matter and Its Relationship with Marxism

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

As we have explained in numerous articles, the Black Lives Matter organization is a hardcore Marxist revolutionary cell, whose ideology would undoubtedly shock African American religious leaders, business leaders and church members if they were widely known.

Back in January of 2016 our friend James Simpson published an outstanding exposé of the connection between the Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists who provide the shock troops for this revolution and the longtime hard core Leftists who fund it and put it into motion.

Commentary: Communism Survivor Warns What Will Happen If Americans Take Freedom for Granted

May 13, 2020May 12, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

Too few have learned about the horrors of communism. Fewer still have escaped it and lived to tell the tale.

Amy Phan West is one such survivor. In 1984, Phan escaped Vietnam’s communist dictatorship by concealing herself in the bottom of one of her father’s fishing vessels before it set out to sea.

Commentary: How We View Those We Oppose

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

Recently I celebrated my birthday with my son and five of his children. His wife and oldest daughter were visiting relatives, so I pitched in and helped James with the kids.

Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Embraces Radical Group that Wants to ‘Abolish Prisons’ and Promoted Palestinian Terrorists

March 3, 2020March 2, 2020 Ohio Star Staff

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has embraced a far-left group that seeks to abolish prisons and has promoted a group the U.S. State Department designated as a Palestinian terrorist organization, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign website touts an endorsement from the radical group, Dream Defenders, and the group’s co-director, Phillip Agnew, is a top Sanders surrogate.

Commentary: Witness to Public Schools Brainwashing

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s (VOC) fourth “Annual Report on US Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism,” today’s youth is quite fond of political-economic systems that have resulted in more than 100 million deaths over the past century. At the same time, these misguided youths are increasingly hostile toward the political-economic system that has lifted countles millions more out of abject poverty over the same period.

One-in-Three Millennials See Communism as Favorable, Survey Finds

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

A growing number of Millennials show support for communism and socialism, a survey from the Victims of Communism found.

Commentary: A Declaration of Independence From China

October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forgotten nothing and learned nothing.

Commentary: Socialism May Be Absurd, But It’s No Laughing Matter

August 8, 2019August 7, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

Socialism is no laughing matter, but it’s sometimes difficult to refrain from chuckling at the absurdities of its most devoted adherents.

Cleveland Agrees to $225,000 Settlement With Communist Who Believes ‘America Was Never Great’

June 12, 2019June 11, 2019 Anthony Gockowski

Cleveland has agreed to pay $225,000 in a settlement with a second protester who was arrested outside of the 2016 Republican National Convention for burning the American flag. As The Ohio Star reported in April, the city agreed to a $50,000 settlement with Steven Fridley, who was also arrested…

Commentary: No Constitution for Divided Men

March 31, 2019March 30, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Helen Lamm Whether we like it or not, the defining political disagreements of our time are no longer based on differences of constitutional interpretation. “Limited government” is probably the most broadly accepted unifying principle of the conservative movement. You can find the phrase in the mission statements of…

Commentary: Has Our Romanian Nightmare Followed Us Here?

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Andra Constantin Following the State of the Union address, I found the state of the nation surreal. I kept skimming past articles about the Democratic Party’s proposed economic stimulus packages, collectively known as the Green New Deal. They propose to fund unsustainable sectors like solar panels – which are…

Commentary: Imagine America Without Freedom

February 14, 2019February 13, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Rick Manning Everyone is talking about the Green New Deal, and how it would end domestic airline travel, the internal combustion engine, fossil fuel usage, most electricity generation and even ban cow flatulence. You have groups guessing what the cost of the Green New Deal would be in…

Commentary: It’s Time to Get Real About Our Enemies

January 31, 2019January 30, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Karin McQuillan Out here in Realville, to borrow from Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump’s supporters could be very happy. For ordinary Americans – from the top to the bottom of the economic spectrum, black, white and brown – President Trump has brought good times. Except for the screeching drama queens…

Commentary: Cultural Marxism Is Real

January 12, 2019January 12, 2019 Ohio Star Staff

by Allen Mendenhall Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.” Moyn attributes the term cultural Marxism to the “runaway alt-right imagination,” claiming that it implicates zany conspiracy theories and has been “percolating for years through global…

Chinese Police Raid Children’s Bible Study, Shut Down Third Prominent Underground Church This Winter

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 Ohio Star Staff

by Joshua Gill Chinese police shut down a third prominent underground church this winter Saturday after raiding a children’s bible study and confiscating over 4,000 Christian books. Authorities in Guangzhou raided the Rongguili Church at 10 a.m., announcing to parents and children at the Bible study that all activities…

Chinese Pastor Could Reportedly Face 15 Years in Prison for ‘Inciting Subversion of State Power’

December 15, 2018December 14, 2018 Ohio Star Staff

by Joshua Gill Chinese authorities reportedly charged an evangelical pastor and his wife with “inciting subversion of state power” Wednesday, for which they face potentially 15 years in prison. Chinese police in the town of Chengdu arrested Wang Yi of Early Rain Covenant Church, his wife Jiang Rong and…

The History Russians and Communists Want Us to Forget

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Ohio Star Staff

by Jarrett Stepman The Soviet Union did not free the world of tyranny in World War II. It merely helped defeat one evil while ruthlessly attempting to supplant it with another one. But you wouldn’t know that from reading an Associated Press article from early September. The Associated Press originally stated…