EU politics
Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis – Public Use of Reason
Once you get past the first part about the Greek crisis it really does pick up.
Yanis Varoufakis
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Angela Merkel’s austerity condemned Europe and Germany to decline
At the height of the eurozone crisis, one of Angela Merkel’s close advisers explained to me her driving ambition: to bequeath to her successor a stronger chancellery than she inherited. If so, as Merkel prepares to retire, […]
Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – Lessons from this summer’s calamitous Greek forests inferno
An excellent analysis of the many elements resulting in the destruction of Europe’s forests and environment. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – Star Trek versus Imperialist Doctrine
America’s liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a liberal anti-imperialist doctrine that remains ensconced in a TV series that […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – A central bank cryptocurrency to democratise money
The history of money has been the history of the struggles to control the payment system and the money tree. Today, with control over both resting in the hands of bankers, central banks’ efforts to […]
Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – Central bank independence is a myth. What about green central banking?
Last week the ECB announced its new policy of ‘going green’. How can a conventional central bank do this? Only by discriminating against bonds and equities issued by companies damaging the environment that it accepts […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Techno-Feudalism is taking over
Capitalism is destroying the planet. This form even more. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor Cross-posted from the website of DiEM 25 […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Economic Theory in the Age of Technofeudalism
The disconnect between capitalism and finance To watch click here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Why does economics matter?
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor 1. Why does economics matter? Everything we do, and everything that is possible within our social […]
Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Draghi’s outrageous deployment of McKinsey, Europe’s predicament, DiEM25’s proposals
“Mario Draghi hired McKinsey to ‘organise’ Italy’s distribution of the Recovery Fund monies. What next? Get the Mafia to re-organise the Ministry of Justice?” Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of […]