'Open Society' Advocate George Soros Funds Plan to Block Bush

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'Open Society' Advocate George Soros Funds Plan to Block Bush
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Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service (IPS)

UNITED NATIONS (news - web sites), Sep 12 (IPS) -- George Soros, most
often described as a billionaire philanthropist, once shared some of
the political values of U.S. President George W. Bush . For example,
they both wanted ''regime change'' in Iraq. Now Soros has made a full
political circle: he wants to see a ''regime change'' in the United
States.


Soros has also been gunning for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Libya's
Muammar el-Qaddafi, Burma's Gen Than Shwe and Turkmenistan's
president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov.

A long-time pro-democracy advocate and a sometimes currency
speculator, Soros is openly backing a non-governmental initiative
called 'Americans Coming Together' (ACT) aimed at stopping Bush in his
bid for a second term as president of the United States.

ACT is planning to spend about $75 million to mobilize U.S. voters to
defeat Bush in the next presidential elections in November 2004.

Described as a counter-cultural investor whose net worth is more than
$five billion, Soros has already contributed about $10 million to the
anti-Bush campaign.

Six other philanthropists have chipped in a total of about $12
million, while $8 million has been contributed by trade unions.

Soros, who is chairman of the Open Society Institute (OSI) which
promotes multi-party democracy worldwide, thinks that Bush and his
aggressive unilateral foreign policy is doing more harm than good to
the United States.