Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. “Debt is to capitalism…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash.…
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to…
The controversial concept of techno-feudalism suggests we have transitioned from capitalism to something even worse — a new era that exhibits disturbing feudal characteristics.…
It was early September in 1971. My mother had taken me in a taxi to a boutique hotel in a leafy northern…
Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder, is interviewed on Al Jazeera about the on-going occupation of Palestine and Israel’s siege of Gaza.
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are…
The world is witnessing an epochal shift, according to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis: from the now-dead capitalism, to “technofeudalism”. In his latest…
In this video, Yanis Varoufakis explains the real reasons why the US dollar remains powerful and how America’s debt shapes the global…
The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine seats in Greece’s Parliament, in Sunday’s election we failed to clear the 3% hurdle, thus, electing…
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