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Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis Varoufakis’ perspective on Trump’s approach to securing US dominance

"[Trump] sees the world like a bicycle wheel. And the way to answer the question of how hegemony, US capitalist hegemony, will be maintained is to turn the United States into the hub of the wheel and treat every other country like Germany, France, Britain, be more powerful and have more bargaining power in relation to each one of the spokes. So destroying multilateralism, the World Trade Organization, the G20, even the IMF and the World Bank, and place America first, turn it into the...

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Yanis Varoufakis’ perspective on Trump’s approach to securing US dominance

"[Trump] sees the world like a bicycle wheel. And the way to answer the question of how hegemony, US capitalist hegemony, will be maintained is to turn the United States into the hub of the wheel and treat every other country like Germany, France, Britain, be more powerful and have more bargaining power in relation to each one of the spokes. So destroying multilateralism, the World Trade Organization, the G20, even the IMF and the World Bank, and place America first, turn it into the hub of...

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2008 & 2020: The Combination That Changed Capitalism Forever [Yanis Varoufakis]

As protests erupt on the streets of America and the world, current power structures no longer feel tenable. Can this popular uprising break the neoliberal grip on the state and create lasting structural change that will empower the disenfranchised? Join us as the Former Finance Minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 25 (DiEM25) explores what a restructured economic and political landscape might look like in a post pandemic era, and what it would take to harness...

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2008 & 2020: The Combination That Changed Capitalism Forever [Yanis Varoufakis]

As protests erupt on the streets of America and the world, current power structures no longer feel tenable. Can this popular uprising break the neoliberal grip on the state and create lasting structural change that will empower the disenfranchised? Join us as the Former Finance Minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 25 (DiEM25) explores what a restructured economic and political landscape might look like in a post pandemic era, and what it would take to harness...

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