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		<title>Greek Success Story: The latest Orwellian Turn of the Greek Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece’s Prime Minister recently flew to China, to woo Chinese investors. In his bid to be persuasive, he adopted a radical narrative: Greece is a Success Story. A country that almost perished in 2012  is now on the mend; on the road to stabilisation and growth; a wonderful opportunity, currently, for investors to pick up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3707&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monetising the… ECB: The latest insult to be added to Greece’s multiplying injuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[European Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week another installment of the cruel theatre of the absurd, also known as the ‘Greek Rescue’ (and more recently re-released as ‘Greece’s success story’), was delivered silently: Not for the first time, the bankrupt Greek state borrowed from one arm of the Eurozone to give to another, with massive interest to boot. To be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3701&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of an Erratic Marxist: Keynote speech, Subversive Festival, Zagreb, Croatia &#8211; 14th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/14/confessions-of-an-erratic-marxist-keynote-speech-subversive-festival-zagreb-croatia-14th-may-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen (as audio only) to my keynote speech at the 6th Subversive Festival (Kino Europa, Zagreb), 14th May 2013, click CONFESSIONS OF AN ERRATIC MARXIST. For the complete program click here. The abstract of my talk follows (a full transcript will be posted later)&#8230; When I chose my PhD thesis, I intentionally concentrated on a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3685&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Awareness in 60&#8243; Video Competition</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/10/raising-awareness-in-60-video-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/10/raising-awareness-in-60-video-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 06:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Vital Space]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And now for something quite different: Since our words and arguments are failing to have a serious impact, despite their value and reasonableness, perhaps it is time to resort to the artist&#8217;s touch. Vital Space invites all artists to participate in the first of a series of open call competitions in the context of our ‘Raising Awareness’ theme. For our first [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3679&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Utopia of Democracy: May 12th to 18th in Zagreb</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/08/the-utopia-of-democracy-may-12th-to-18th-in-zagreb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yanisv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Global Minotaur: A theory of the Global Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning this coming Sunday 12th May, and lasting all of next week, the 6th Subversive Festival will be held in Zagreb. This year&#8217;s general theme is: THE UTOPIA OF DEMOCRACY. Speakers will include Tariq Ali, Oliver Stone, Susan George, Franco Bifo, Alexis Tsipras, Jean Luc Melenchon, Eric O. Wright. Slavoj Zizek and&#8230; yours truly. It promises [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3667&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macroeconomic experiments: Abenomics versus Euro-austerity</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/03/macroeconomic-experiments-abenomics-versus-euro-austerity/</link>
		<comments>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/03/macroeconomic-experiments-abenomics-versus-euro-austerity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yanisv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC&#8217;s (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) online periodical, THE DRUM, commissioned me to write an article comparing and contrasting the policy responses to the Crisis of Japan and of the Eurozone. Click here for the ABC&#8217;s website. Or read on below&#8230; The Japanese and eurozone economies are very different, but their current predicaments are eerily similar. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3654&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking stock: May Day video discussion with Unite Solidarity International</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/02/taking-stock-may-day-video-discussion-with-unite-solidarity-international/</link>
		<comments>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/02/taking-stock-may-day-video-discussion-with-unite-solidarity-international/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yanisv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The video recording of my discussion with Andrew Brady, of USI, below is for &#8216;true believers&#8217; only. It is a talk from the heart about the Eurozone Crisis on the day when labour around the world heralds the obligation and asserts the right of working people to demand a re-think of the social relations governing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3649&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intransigent Bundesbank: Mr Jens Weidmann’s surreptitious campaign to bring back the (greater) Deutsch Mark</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/27/intransigent-bundesbank-mr-jens-weidmanns-surreptitious-campaign-to-bring-back-the-greater-deutsch-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any fair minded reading of the Bundesbank’s latest Constitutional Court deposition must lead to one of two conclusions: Either the Bundesbank has failed to recognise the existentialist threat to the Eurozone (that was placed in suspended animation during the past eight months or so), or the Bundesbank has intentionally opted for a strategy that will, sooner [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3636&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/</link>
		<comments>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yanisv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Crash of 2008 has infused our societies with enormous scepticism on the role of the authorities, both government and Central Banks. It is quite natural that many dream of a currency that politicians, bankers and central bankers cannot manipulate; a currency of the people by the people for the people. Bitcoin has emerged as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3622&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Banksters in Action: On the latest twist in the story of mafia-style terror spreading through the Greek polity</title>
		<link>http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/19/greek-banksters-in-action-on-the-latest-twist-in-the-story-of-mafia-style-terror-spreading-through-the-greek-polity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last November I posted a piece entitled A Small Victory for Press Freedom in Greece’s Struggle against Cleptocracy. That story concerned the courageous decision of Kostas Vaxevanis, one of Greece’s few, valiant investigative reporters, to publish the so-called Lagarde List; the list of Swiss bank account holders that Greece’s political class did its utmost to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanisvaroufakis.eu&#038;blog=17662065&#038;post=3614&#038;subd=varoufakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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