McCain has chaired the International Republican Institute (IRI) since 1993. The IRI, with its millions of $$ of taxpayer funding, has served as an instrument to advance and promote a far-right GOP foreign policy agenda. More a cloak-and-dagger operation than a conventional research and education group, IRI has aligned itself with some of the most anti-democratic movements in the Third World. |
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