1. The International Republican Institute chaired by John McCain since 1992.
2. The National Democratic Institute for Foreign Affairs, chaired by Madeline Albright. 3. The Open Society Institute, owned and run by George Soros.
The IRI and the NDI, are paid for by our tax dollars under the the National Endowment for Democracy. "We're not the U.S. government, really; we just have U.S. money," says NED Public Affairs Manager Jane Riley Jacobsen. The OSI is completely privately funded.
However, if anyone believes that all these NGO's operate completely separately from one another, then I have a bridge to sell you! Collectively, all three have more clout in our foreign policy that the entire US State Department put together. These NGO's "act" and the State Department just "reacts". They have taken the place of the CIA & the US State Department, but with no congressional or public oversight because most people don't even know they exist.
Good post with good info.
I have always wondered about The Institute For War and Peace Reporting (another Soro’s brain child). They run around ‘training’ journalist’s in foreign countries to basically attack the Bush Administration and undermine our war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other places.
Some of their ‘trained’ journalists have even ‘imbedded’ with the insurgents at times....(eye roll). Just went to visit the site for the first time in a long time and it looks like The Republican Institute(McCain’s baby) has seen fit to join the madness in the last few years!
I did not see them listed as a ‘supporter’ a few years ago when I was researching it. Sometimes I think this country’s leaders and institutions have lost their minds or just don’t do their homework of these NGO’s before handing them large sums of money!
(shaking head)