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An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis Varoufakis interviews Omar Barghouti (co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights)

While the massacre in Gaza is ongoing, and the repression of Palestinians everywhere is intensifying, how can progressives show meaningful solidarity with those suffering from, and struggling against, Israel's regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid? Looking to a future worth fighting for, is this the time for a SINGLE DEMOCRATIC STATE for Jews and Palestinians? Is the two-state solution the right objective for progressives or a formalisation of apartheid? To discuss...

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Debating the EU: Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25

Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis join Freddie Sayers in debating the EU. The EU has had a difficult pandemic. A slow procurement of vaccines, followed by a botched rollout, and blame-shifting by its leaders has drawn together critics from all politics stripes. Two of unlikely bedfellows from very different political traditions, Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis, joined Freddie Sayers for a discussion about the bloc at an UnHerd members event. Murray's feelings about the EU are...

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Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis: The EU is broken

Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis join Freddie Sayers. Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-is-broken/ Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-has-failed The EU has had a difficult pandemic. A slow procurement of vaccines, followed by a botched rollout, and blame-shifting by its leaders has drawn together critics from all politics stripes....

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Yanis Varoufakis – Trailer Age of Economics 2

Yanis Varoufakis Trailer 2 Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s Parliament and parliamentary leader of MeRA25, the Greek political party belonging to DiEM25 – Europe’s first transnational paneuropean movement. Previously, he served as Greece’s Finance Minister during the first six months of 2015. Varoufakis read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge,...

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Interview with Srećko Horvat: ‘After the Apocalypse’

Hosts: Maša Uzelac (French, NUIG) and Ashley Cahillane (English, NUIG) Video edited by: John Milan van der Bergh Srećko Horvat is Croatian philosopher, author, and political activist. He is a co-founder along with Yanis Varoufakis of the pan-European political movement for democracy DiEM25 and a council member of the Progressive International, a transnational movement that is connecting, supporting, and mobilising activists around the world. Srećko is the author of numerous books,...

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