Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

With xenophobic and authoritarian forces rising across the EU, societies in stagnation  levels, and climate catastrophe on the horizon, it’s time to stop what we’re doing and rethink. The EUROPEAN SPRING, that will be contesting the May 2019 European elections in 11 countries, brings together politicians and activists to give a new, European perspective on these critical issues. Program: Introductory speech...

Yanis Varoufakis visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday to launch the political programme of MeRA25. In coalition with the European Spring transnational alliance, it is proposing what it calls a progressive agenda for Europe: a New Deal for Europe. Varoufakis appeared before the media with members of the European Spring coalition alliance, Isabelle Thomas and Guillaume Balas (Génération.s), MeRA25’s Sofia Sakarofa, as well as Irish MEP Nessa Childers. Varoufakis outlined...

Paradoxically, while the current Brexit impasse is pregnant with risk, the British should welcome it. Their discontent with the choices before them is an opportunity, not a curse, and more democracy is the antidote, not the disease. ATHENS – Discontent without end looms over Britain. Leavers and Remainers are equally despondent. Her Majesty’s Government and the Labour opposition are equally divided. The United...

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Το 2019 δεν θα είναι μόνο εκλογική χρονιά. Θα αποδειχθεί, επί πλέον, η χρονιά που η ύφεση επέστρεψε στη διεθνή οικονομία. Πρόκειται για εκρηκτικό μείγμα για μια χώρα όπως η Ελλάδα, που συμπληρώνει δεκαετία μόνιμης κρίσης, που εισέρχεται σε εκλογικό κύκλο και της οποίας το χρέος θα ήταν μη βιώσιμο ακόμα και χωρίς την επερχόμενη διεθνή ύφεση. Το ελληνικό δημόσιο χρέος πριν από τη νέα διεθνή ύφεση Πριν δούμε τα κακά...

[embedded content] Over the past two days, Mrs Merkel was in Athens on a victory lap to celebrate her successful subjugation of the Syriza government and the subsequent extension of the Greeks’ debt bondage. Nevertheless, even this subservient Greek government managed to upset her victory lap by mentioning the… war and the reparations the Greeks will continue to demand for the gigantic loss...

VEA ESTE CONTENIDO EN enperspectiva.net https://www.enperspectiva.net/en-perspectiva-programa/la-mesa/bernie-sanders-yanis-varoufakis-lanzan-nueva-internacional-progresista/ El senador demócrata estadounidense Bernie Sanders y el ex ministro de Economía griego Yanis Varoufakis lanzaron junto a un grupo de intelectuales la nueva Internacional Progresista, una “red global” de izquierdas para combatir la corriente de gobiernos de derecha como los de Donald Trump en Estados Unidos o Jair...

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Yanis Varoufakis talks to Noam Chomsky about the neoliberal assault on the world's population in the last generation. Subscribe to Progressive Wisdom: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Relaxotron ====================================== Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. Varoufakis has published a number of texts on economics and game theory, such as The...