An interview with George Soros, financier and philanthropist, about his new involvement in US politics. Soros, who has recently donated millions to Democratic leaning organizations, contends that President Bush’s Iraq policy has created new terrorists and made the world less secure.

Soros, financier, author, and philanthropist is founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute. The Institute serves as the hub of the Soros foundations network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations in more than 60 countries. OSI and the network implement a range of initiatives that aim to promote open societies by shaping government policy and supporting education, media, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
 
Born in Budapest, Hungary he survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). Soros moved to the United States in 1956, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed. Today he is chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC. Soros is the author of eight books, including The Bubble of America Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power (PublicAffairs, January 2004).

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For more information about George Soros's activities that are separate from the Open Society Institute, visit www.georgesoros.com.