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Discussing SOCIETY AFTER COVID-19 with Brian Eno on DiEM-TV – VIDEO
DiEM TV honoured me yesterday night by asking me to host a discussion on SOCIETY AFTER COVID-19 with Brian Eno – an idol of mine that I am privileged now, in my old age, to count amongst my friends, not to mention a co-founder of DiEM25. Enjoy his take on our current predicament as well […]
Δεν μπαίνει θέμα νέου Μνημονίου κ. Μητσοτάκη. Είστε σε Μνημόνιο! Το ερώτημα είναι πως θα βγείτε – βγάζοντας παράλληλα το λαό από την μαζική καραντίνα μέσω μαζικών εξετάσεων
Δεν μπαίνει θέμα νέου Μνημονίου κ. Μητσοτάκη. Είστε σε Μνημόνιο! Αρνούμενος να κάνετε τα ελάχιστα που απαιτούνται για να χρεοκοπήσουν λιγότεροι, απλά θα σφίγγει περισσότερο η μέγγενη του 4ου Μνημονίου καθιστώντας τη δική σας κυβέρνηση πιο δέσμια στην τρόικα που σας κρατά έτσι κι αλλιώς δέσμιους. Έχετε υποχρέωση άμεσα να προβείτε: Σε κουρέματα (όχι αναστολές) […]
Why are they saying no to the eurobond? The case for constructive disobedience in the EU Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTil8xccFJA
What should the EU do NOW: DiEM25’s 3-Point Plan for averting a Covid-19 Depression
With Lives, Livelihoods and the Union on the brink, the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest test of the European project in the history of the Union — and we are failing. Solidarity was meant to be a foundational principle of the EU. But solidarity is missing at the moment it is most needed. COVID-19 has revealed a fundamental truth: […]
Γιατί απαιτούνται άμεσα δημοσιονομικά μέτρα χωρίς διαπραγμάτευση με το Eurogroup – Συνέντευξη τύπου για το μάθημα των Euroleaks
Το κύριο μάθημα των Euroleaks για την αντιμετώπιση της διπλής επιδημίας που φέρνει ο κορωνοϊός: ΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΩΡΑ! ΜΟΝΟΜΕΡΩΣ! ΧΩΡΙΣ ΚΑΜΙΑ «ΔΙΑΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΥΣΗ» ΣΤΟ Eurogroup Η επιδημία του κορωνοϊού έχει δύο διαστάσεις: την υγειονομική και την οικονομική. Στο υγειονομικό σκέλος έχουμε υποχρέωση ως πολίτες την πλήρη τήρηση των κανόνων και των συμβουλών του Υπουργείου Υγείας – δεν […]
On the lethal interaction between the coronavirus contraction & global capitalism’s never-ending post-2008 crisis – VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-wpDZkie4&feature=youtu.be
“We are here so that unarmed truth has the final word” – speech at Julian Assange London rally 22-2-2020
Leaking the Guilty Secrets of Power is not a Phrase, it is a Sentence. And no one is facing a longer one today than JA. Julian has GAINED the right to quote another past prisoner, another enemy of Empire, Mahatma Ghandi. Like Ghandi Julian could say: “You can chain me, you can torture me, you […]
From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism – University of Tübingen (video available)
A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students, delivered on Monday 3rd February 2020 on the theme From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism. Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space. Its models offer ideological cover for a capitalist system that has usurped competitive, free markets. The result? […]
Is capitalism past its expiry date? Munk Debate (K, Vanden Heuvel & Y. Varoufakis vs A. Brooks & D. Brooks)
The capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different. For my 3 minute conclusion of this debate, jump to 1 hour 59 minutes There is a growing belief in western societies that the current capitalist system no longer works for average people. Economic inequality is rampant. Life expectancy is falling. The environment is […]
Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so? Cambridge 8th NOV 2019
On 8th November, at the invitation of Professor Antara Haldar of Cambridge University, I presented this talk in the context of a fascinating group of academics who gathered in the Cambridge Union’s upstairs seminar room to revive Keynes’ original idea of the Cambridge Circus – a radical circle of economists seeking the kind of economics that […]
Progressive Internationalism & why a Corbyn government is the only cure for a terrible Brexit – openDemocracy video interview
At this year’s The World Transformed, we caught up with some of the key figures in the movement for a new economy and politics. In the grand finale of our exclusive series, Yanis Varoufakis speaks to ourEconomy about Brexit, the coming UK general election, a constitutional assembly for Britain, and his agenda of a new Bretton Woods, public […]