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Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

“Κάποια στιγμή ένιωσα ότι πάλευα για κάτι πιο μεγάλο από μένα κι από το να σώσω τη δουλειά μου” – Η Λίτσα Αλεξάκη, το θρυλικό Κόκκινο Γάντι, στο ΜέΡΑ-TV

[embedded content] Μετά τον Κώστα Γαβρά, το “Κόκκινο Γάντι”, η Λίτσα Αλεξάκη, μια από τις θρυλικές καθαρίστριες του Υπουργείου Οικονομικών που έγιναν σύμβολα του αγώνα εναντίον της τρόικας (εξωτερικού και εσωτερικού), στην Σαββατιάτικη εκπομπή του ΜέΡΑ-TV. Μιλήσαμε προσωπικά, πολιτικά, για τις καταβολές της, την μετεξέλιξη μιας διαμαρτυρίας για την απόλυσή τους σε κάτι πιο μεγάλο, κάτι που...

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Yanis Varoufakis: Coronavirus economic fallout could heap more misery onto Greece

"I very much fear that Greece will have the largest number of people who go hungry as a result of the economic dimension of this pandemic," Yanis Varoufakis tells Euronews… READ MORE : https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/23/yanis-varoufakis-coronavirus-economic-fallout-could-heap-more-misery-onto-greece What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe!...

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DiEM25’s Vision of Europe for the post-Pandemic Era: Some personal thoughts

DiEM25 was created in February 2016 because Europe was disintegrating as a result of a pseudo-technocratic takeover of the EU that was imposing austerity everywhere in response to the financial crisis caused by the EU pseudo-technocracy’s controllers. Today, now that a mindless virus has placed European capitalism in suspended animation, it is time to re-assess our analysis and to re-purpose our policies. Our...

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O νέος εμπαιγμός που μαγειρεύουν απόψε στη Σύνοδο Κορυφής – ΒΙΝΤΕΟ

[embedded content] Σήμερα, Πέμπτη 23η Απριλίου, συγκαλείται Σύνοδος Κορυφής με θέμα την κοινή, ευρωπαϊκή αντιμετώπιση της Νέας Μεγάλης Ύφεσης. Ένα θα έπρεπε να είναι το ζητούμενο για τους ηγέτες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης σήμερα: Το νέο χρέος που προκαλεί η πανδημία να μην βαρύνει τους προϋπολογισμούς των κρατών μας, καθώς αυτό θα φέρει κούρεμα μισθών και συντάξεων, νέους φόρους – δηλαδή επανάληψη...

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DiEM25 on tonight’s European Union Council decision (Yes, we know what, & how terrible, it will be!)

Later today, Thursday 23rd April, the EU Council will meet to discuss the common European response to the Great New Recession caused by the pandemic. Their agenda should comprise one, and only one, item: How to ensure that the necessary increase in public deficits will not show up in the fiscally stressed member-states’ national budgets, so as not to boost already non-viable public debt levels. If the EU Council...

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What Comes After Capitalism? (VIDEO by Sustainable Human)

[embedded content] Free market capitalism died over a 100 years ago and gave way to monopoly capitalism. Monopoly capitalism is now not even able to reproduce itself, let alone sustain the planet, common decency etc. But what comes next? Thanks to the good people at PATREON for putting imagery to my words. Support the creation of more videos like this:...

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In conversation with Roger Waters, on DiEM-TV’s ANOTHER NOW – Ep.2, 20 APR 2020

[embedded content] Welcome to DiEM-TV’s ANOTHER NOW. The program that owes its existence to a mindless virus that placed capitalism in suspended animation, something not even WW2 managed to do. The one-hour discussion every Monday where, together with a weird and wonderful guest, we rant and rave with one ambition in our souls: To prevent a return to normality once the pandemic passes. Now,...

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Roger Waters and Yanis Varoufakis: Another Now #2 | DiEM25 TV

Donate ? https://i.diem25.org/donations/to/events Join us! ? https://diem25.org/join Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame is here tonight, with host Yanis Varoufakis for some ranting and raving ;) The coronavirus crisis is revealing that the powers that be of the European Union have learned nothing from the Eurocrisis. They are currently betraying the interests of the majority of Europeans in the same way that they have done so in 2010 -- by failing to mobilize existing money and public...

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