https://znetwork.org/author/yanisvaroufakis/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 07 May 2026 09:05:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/yanisvaroufakis/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297813 Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses why Europe is possibly sliding into a century of humiliation”.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trump-is-stuck-the-war-just-changed/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trump-is-stuck-the-war-just-changed/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297519 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the orthodox view that the newly established U.S. dollar swap lines for Gulf states are a charitable bailout for the Middle East, arguing instead that these facilities are a desperate signalling mechanism designed to bail out the American financial system and the petrodollar [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trump-is-stuck-the-war-just-changed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-ama/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-ama/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297286 Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy — or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table. Join us live as Yanis answers questions submitted by you. Hosted by Mehran Khalili.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-ama/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palantir-and-the-new-order/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palantir-and-the-new-order/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297263 A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. For half a century, neoliberalism was the undisputed creed of the global elite. Born [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palantir-and-the-new-order/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-we-got-here/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-we-got-here/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1296939 What went wrong over the last decade — and what can we learn from it? In this panel from DiEM25’s Resistance Is Existence event in London, Yanis Varoufakis, Brian Eno, and Laura Pidcock — moderated by Erik Edman — reflect on ten years of political struggle, defeat, and missed opportunities. From economic crisis and war [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-we-got-here/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/can-the-left-still-win-varoufakis-corbyn-polanski-blakeley/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/can-the-left-still-win-varoufakis-corbyn-polanski-blakeley/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:00:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1296842 Can the left still win, and what does resistance look like in a time of war, inequality, and political crisis? At DiEM25’s Resistance Is Existence event in London, Yanis Varoufakis is joined by Jeremy Corbyn, Zack Polanski, and Grace Blakeley for a powerful panel on Gaza, class power, democracy, and the future of the left. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/can-the-left-still-win-varoufakis-corbyn-polanski-blakeley/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-knows-whos-going-to-lose-the-war-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-knows-whos-going-to-lose-the-war-in-iran/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:31:00 +0000 The war in Iran, besides being dangerous, is also very interesting because it’s an example of asymmetric warfare. The US is obviously much more powerful, which is probably why there has been a significant amount of hubris: it entered this war with a lot of confidence and assumption of escalation dominance. Thus, we see that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-knows-whos-going-to-lose-the-war-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295695 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau target the orthodoxy of NATO’s post-1991 expansion as well as dismantling the prevailing narrative surrounding the war in Ukraine, including the logistical delusion of a Western victory and the dereliction of duty by European leadership that risks a global escalation.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-finance-behind-europes-plans-for-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-finance-behind-europes-plans-for-ukraine/#respond Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:55:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295569 When the euro crisis hit in early 2010, with Greece the first domino to fall, all it took to surmise that Europe had no intention of resolving the euro crisis was one good look at the toxic finance the EU concocted in response. Today one good look at the toxic finance the EU is deploying [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-finance-behind-europes-plans-for-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294923 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of the global economy, arguing that the world’s fixation on Donald Trump’s tariffs and Supreme Court rulings is a dangerous distraction from a much more profound transformation – namely a new form of power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-has-become-a-war-project-can-it-be-stopped-yanis-varoufakis-jeffrey-sachs/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-has-become-a-war-project-can-it-be-stopped-yanis-varoufakis-jeffrey-sachs/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294915 As leaders, generals and diplomats gather in Munich this weekend to debate Europe’s security and the future of the transatlantic alliance, the real question is not what is said on stage — but what direction Europe is being steered toward. In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs examine the conclusions of the Munich Security [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-has-become-a-war-project-can-it-be-stopped-yanis-varoufakis-jeffrey-sachs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-move-beyond-the-capitalist-model-and-save-the-climate-here-are-the-first-three-steps/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-move-beyond-the-capitalist-model-and-save-the-climate-here-are-the-first-three-steps/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:15:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294818 We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When we look around we see an extraordinary paradox. On the one hand, we have access to remarkable new technologies and a collective capacity to produce more food, more stuff than [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-move-beyond-the-capitalist-model-and-save-the-climate-here-are-the-first-three-steps/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294114 Trump’s Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of China’s rise, sparking talk of “a new world order” — but is the rules-based international order really worth saving? As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making preparations to maintain some grip on world [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-abomination-yanis-varoufakis-on-trumps-board-of-peace-threat-to-democratic-world-order/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-abomination-yanis-varoufakis-on-trumps-board-of-peace-threat-to-democratic-world-order/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:37:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293936 We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-abomination-yanis-varoufakis-on-trumps-board-of-peace-threat-to-democratic-world-order/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293480 In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand unpack what just happened in Venezuela, why it matters far beyond Latin America, and what people can do when “might makes right” is being sold as order. We also look at Europe’s response, the oil angle, and the wider shift towards more force, fewer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/venezuela-greenland-trumps-warning-to-the-west/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/venezuela-greenland-trumps-warning-to-the-west/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293227 Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that signals the end of international law. As the first days of 2026 unfold, could Trump’s gangster-style intervention actually be emboldening Putin and Xi, and are Greenland and Canada truly the next targets on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/venezuela-greenland-trumps-warning-to-the-west/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/after-2025-europe-is-changed-forever/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/after-2025-europe-is-changed-forever/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292988 Yanis Varoufakis reflects on 2025 — the year Europe fell apart — and issues a warning for 2026. War, de-industrialisation, austerity, and authoritarianism are no longer threats. They are here. In this end-of-year message on behalf of DiEM25, Yanis Varoufakis reflects on the year Europe’s political, economic, and moral order fractured. Speaking amid escalating war, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/after-2025-europe-is-changed-forever/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/#respond Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292284 In conversation with Yanis Varoufakis, Leader of MeRA25, the Greek political party belonging to DiEM25, Economist, Academic and Former Greek Finance Minister. Discussion on USA, Western Europe and Israel: United in Capitalism and Fascism.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291948 In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to re-arm Europe. If EU leaders won’t send troops and won’t negotiate, whom does their “solidarity” really serve? And why are some in Brussels worried that peace itself would threaten their new militarisation agenda?]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-judge-at-the-end-of-europe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-judge-at-the-end-of-europe/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291941 When, in a few years’ time, almost everyone is claiming that they opposed Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, the world will remember Judge Nicolas Guillou of the International Criminal Court fondly. But the world will also remember how Europe’s leaders collaborated with Donald Trump by enforcing baseless US sanctions against Guillou. ATHENS – Let us, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-judge-at-the-end-of-europe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291706 How we lost the argument on Britain’s relationship with the European Union forever? What is the point in our nuclear weapons if Donald Trump’s America has such power over whether we can use them or not? What has the left learned from the formation of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party? Zack Polanski speaks [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-political-leaders-warn-us-no-war-on-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-political-leaders-warn-us-no-war-on-venezuela/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291712 Jeremy Corbyn, Manon Aubry, Yanis Varoufakis, Irene Montero among dozens urging Europe to oppose U.S. military buildup. Over sixty political leaders from across Europe have issued an urgent warning against what they describe as a “prelude to invasion” of Venezuela, denouncing the escalating presence of U.S. naval and air power in the Caribbean. In a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-political-leaders-warn-us-no-war-on-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291218 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau debunks the “cordon sanitaire” or “firewall” orthodoxy that European centrist parties must never form coalitions with the far-Right, arguing that this failed tactic is a disaster that only guarantees the eventual rise of parties such as the AfD in Germany.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-means-no-barons/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-means-no-barons/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290898 Turning the spotlight on the King while letting the barons off the hook will not stop Donald Trump and his copycats from amassing feudal powers. The illusion of the strong man who will fix everything cannot be dispelled by reviving the illusion that oligarchy offers the population democratic choices. The United Kingdom, the United States, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-means-no-barons/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-grace-blakeley-why-everything-feels-broken/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-grace-blakeley-why-everything-feels-broken/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290344 In this discussion recorded in Athens, Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis expose how our so-called democracies have been captured by elites. From Gaza to the climate crisis to the collapse of liberal politics, they explore why even “progressive” leaders are absorbed by the system they enter, how neoliberalism has hollowed out collective power, and why [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-grace-blakeley-why-everything-feels-broken/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/they-poison-our-democracies-yanis-varoufakis-on-big-tech-populism-and-the-future-of-the-left/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/they-poison-our-democracies-yanis-varoufakis-on-big-tech-populism-and-the-future-of-the-left/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289717 Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister and author of ‘Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance’, talks to Paddy O’Connell about male chauvinism in politics, the power of Big Tech and Silicon Valley, Donald Trump and the future of the international political left.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/they-poison-our-democracies-yanis-varoufakis-on-big-tech-populism-and-the-future-of-the-left/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:03:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289578 Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joins Aaron in the Novara studio to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him, and gave him his political conscience. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:16:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289203 As the UK, France, Canada and Australia recognised (belatedly and hypocritically) the State of Palestine, it is important to cast an eye on the ethnic cleansing (and, now, genocide) of Palestinians through the prism of International Law and the Australian High Court’s landmark decision on land rights.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-trumps-working-class-base-turn-on-him/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-trumps-working-class-base-turn-on-him/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287584 Democrats in the United States hope and pray that when the pain from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill begins to bite, his working-class supporters, having been brutally betrayed, will desert him. But the more likely outcome may be that many continue to believe that he is on their side. ATHENS – America’s Republican [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-trumps-working-class-base-turn-on-him/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grok-gagged-ai-noticed-pro-israel-bias-and-got-censored-for-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grok-gagged-ai-noticed-pro-israel-bias-and-got-censored-for-it/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286033 X’s AI bot exposed media double standards on Israel–Palestine, only to be muzzled by its own creator  The incredible (so very 2025) story of how Grok (X’s AI bot) was muzzled by its creator (X) for having detected the pro-Israeli bias of the BBC and other mainstream media. It seems that Grok was optimised to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grok-gagged-ai-noticed-pro-israel-bias-and-got-censored-for-it/feed/ 0