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On Australia’s economy – extensive interview in THE GUARDIAN
, 25/05/2016
Click here for the interview with Gabrielle Jackson as published on THE GUARDIAN’s site. Or…
Talking Europe & Greece – VICE interview
, 15/05/2016
The interview with Yohann Koshy (April 21, 2016) can be read on VICE’s site here. Otherwise…
Telegraph profile – by Mick Brown
, 10/04/2016
For The Telegraph site, click here. Otherwise… ‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’
‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’ – Telegraph profile
, 03/04/2016
By Mick Brown, 31 MARCH 2016 • 11:08AM [For the TELEGRAPH site, complete with photos and videos, click here] So, I say to Yanis Varoufakis, you were an obscure university lecturer, with a sideline in writing comment pieces about economics, who had also devised and plotted virtual currencies for computer games, but your only experience of political […]
Guardian Live | Europe, austerity and the threat to global stability with Yanis Varoufakis, Caroline Lucas & Tariq Ali
, 08/03/2016
Thursday 7 April 2016, 7pm–8.30pm, Emmanuel Centre, London, SW1P 3DW Has the EU lost sight of its original purpose? Critics argue that agreements such as TTIP illustrate just how undemocratic the EU has become. Are weaker nations paying the debt of a financial crash which they did not cause? Has the EU been reduced to a […]
DiEM is needed to stop the slide into a new 1930s – The Independent
, 11/02/2016
Click here for The Independent site. Or…
In favour of Varoufakis’ Plan B – by Paul Tyson
, 01/08/2015
In a recently released recording of a teleconference between Yanis Varoufakis and a group of hedge fund managers, Mr Varoufakis spoke frankly about the contingency plans he had developed when he was the Finance Minister.
TALKS
, 14/10/2013
This page lists significant speeches in non-chronological order. Except for a few cases, audio and/or video is available. Featured talk Presenting the Modest Proposal in Berlin COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 20 NOV 2011 – Video: The Global Minotaur: The Crash of 2008 and the Euro-Zone Crisis in Historical Perspective (introduced by Mark Mazower) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: 8 DEC […]
The Utopia of Democracy: May 12th to 18th in Zagreb
, 08/05/2013
Beginning this coming Sunday 12th May, and lasting all of next week, the 6th Subversive Festival will be held in Zagreb. This year’s general theme is: THE UTOPIA OF DEMOCRACY. Speakers will include Tariq Ali, Oliver Stone, Susan George, Franco Bifo, Alexis Tsipras, Jean Luc Melenchon, Eric O. Wright. Slavoj Zizek and… yours truly. It promises […]
About
, 13/11/2010
Thank you for visiting my blog. As you have just clicked on ABOUT, I take the liberty of assuming that a tale on how this blog came into being, as well as a few intimate details on its author, may be in order. THE BLOG : Thoughts for the post-2008 world The Crash of 2008 […]
Marx predicted our present crisis; and points the way out – The Guardian, LONG READ, 20 APR 2018, print and audio versions
, 15/05/2018
For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new. It needs to open our eyes to the true causes of the bewildering, disturbing, exciting changes occurring around us, exposing the possibilities with which our current reality is pregnant. […]
SHAKING THE SUPERFLUX: Shakespeare, economics, and the possibility of justice – 6th Annual Shakespeare Rose Lecture, 19th March 2018, Rose Theatre, Kingston
, 22/03/2018
Full script of my lecture at the Rose Theatre on Shakespeare: Since brevity is, indeed, the soul of wit, let me begin by stating the obvious: I am as qualified to deliver an annual Shakespeare lecture in this splendid theatre as an ant that walks in wonder on an iPhone is able to explain the mystery […]
Όλοι κρινόμαστε! – μερικές απαντήσεις στον Βασίλη Βιλιάρδο
, 24/08/2017
Επειδή ο καλόπιστος διάλογος είναι το άλας της γης… Επειδή τα ΜΜΑ (μέσα μαζικής αποβλάκωσης) έχουν έννομο συμφέρον να μην συζητείται ποτέ αυτό που οι καιροί απαιτούν να συζητούμε… Επειδή κανείς δεν είναι υπεράνω κριτικής και ελλοχεύει ο κίνδυνος, ιδίως τώρα που τα social media έχουν τον πρώτο λόγο, όλοι μας να παγιδευτούμε, ο καθένας […]