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NATO from the perspective of having grown up under US-sponsored neofascism – UNHERD
, 12/01/2024
It was early September in 1971. My mother had taken me in a taxi to a boutique hotel in a leafy northern Athenian suburb to visit my favourite uncle, her beloved brother. Before we got out the car, she put her arm around me and whispered words of courage in my ear. You see, Hotel […]
Long interview with Carole Cadwalladr, for the Observer/Guardian, on my Technofeudalism
, 04/10/2023
What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried to stick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order? The mental imagery I have before the visit is roughly two parts Zorba the Gr eek to one part an episode of […]
Europe’s Fading Democracy – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 01/09/2023
The European Union has long suffered from a democratic deficit, owing to the absence of a united European polity that can hold EU political institutions accountable. In recent years, three developments have all but destroyed the idea of the EU as an effective force for good within and beyond Europe. ATHENS – The quiet days […]
Αυγουστιάτικες σκέψεις εν όψει των ευρωεκλογών του Ιουνίου – NEWS24|7
, 27/08/2023
Ο Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης θα είναι υποψήφιος με το ΜέΡΑ25 στις ευρωεκλογές – αυτή τη φορά όχι στη Γερμανία, όπως το 2019, αλλά στην Ελλάδα. Οι τομές που είναι πιο αναγκαίες από ποτέ για την Ένωση. Οι ήσυχες ημέρες του Αυγούστου είναι μια καλή στιγμή για να αναλογιστεί κανείς τη χρονιά που έρχεται. Κοιτάζοντας το ημερολόγιό […]
New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 18/07/2023
Humanity has now developed AI algorithms capable of fully decoding a killer bug’s proteins and creating an effective antibiotic. Was there ever any doubt that conglomerates like Amazon would seize upon this opportunity to shrink workplaces along their supply chain where AI predicts a higher probability of unionization? ATHENS – Last week brought a rare good-news […]
Who’s Afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies? Project Syndicate op-ed
, 01/06/2023
Once upon a time, the greed of tobacco companies was channeled through libertarian outrage over the restriction of smokers’ freedom to choose cancer. Today, the outrage is serving the interests of bankers panicking at the prospect of central bank digital currencies. ATHENS – When First Republic Bank failed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation organized a […]
The New Iranian Revolution as an opportunity for the Internationalist Left – Project Syndicate
, 15/11/2022
Iran’s protesters will neither submit to the fascism hidden behind the regime’s pseudo-anti-imperialism nor surrender their country to the hegemony of the United States or their economy to financialized capital. The Western left should learn from them. ATHENS – Dealing with random, unprovoked abuse is never easy. But dealing with random, unprovoked praise can be […]
ANOTHER NOW: My political science fiction novel depicting a fully-fledged socialism we could have had – THE GUARDIAN
, 05/09/2020
When Margaret Thatcher coined “Tina” – her 1980s dictum that “There is no alternative” – I was incensed because, deep down, I felt she had a point: the left had neither a credible nor a desirable alternative to capitalism. Leftists excel at pinpointing what is wrong with really-existing capitalism. We are good at demonstrating that […]
For a global movement with a radical agenda – long interview in THE HINDU (its FRONTLINE magazine)
, 08/04/2020
In this interview, the first to Indian media, Yanis speaks elaborately on the 2019 British election, Brexit, the E.U. crisis, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the global financial crisis, rising ultra-national forces, the need for a progressive international movement, the DiEM25, rising inequality and the Greek crisis. How important is this year’s U.S. presidential election […]
Last night Julian Assange called me. Here is what we talked about
, 24/03/2020
Last night, immediately after our first DiEM25 TV event, my phone rang. It was Julian. From prison. It was not that first time that he honoured me deeply by using the few phone calls prison allows him to make to call me. Like every other such occasion, when I unexpectedly recognise his voice a torrent […]
“We are here so that unarmed truth has the final word” – speech at Julian Assange London rally 22-2-2020
, 23/02/2020
Leaking the Guilty Secrets of Power is not a Phrase, it is a Sentence. And no one is facing a longer one today than JA. Julian has GAINED the right to quote another past prisoner, another enemy of Empire, Mahatma Ghandi. Like Ghandi Julian could say: “You can chain me, you can torture me, you […]
Για την εμπειρία της συνεργασίας με τον Κώστα Γαβρά – Συνέντευξη στο ΑΘΗΝΟΡΑΜΑ
, 30/09/2019
Το «Ενήλικοι στην Αίθουσα» έγινε viral προτού του δοθεί η ευκαιρία να προβληθεί στις αίθουσες. Η παγκόσμια πρεμιέρα της ταινίας του Κώστα Γαβρά στο Φεστιβάλ Βενετίας τον Αύγουστο, όπου μάλιστα ο σκηνοθέτης βραβεύτηκε για το σύνολο της καριέρας του, πυροδότησε ένα κύμα αντιπαράθεσης πρωτόγνωρο για τα εγχώρια κινηματογραφικά δεδομένα. Επαγγελματίες και μη, άνθρωποι που ως επί το πλείστον […]
Boris is doing a troika, not a Varoufakis – IRISH EXAMINER
, 27/08/2019
ATHENS – Ever since Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street vowing to re-negotiate the United Kingdom’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, the conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion. The BBC’s Katya Adler reported from […]
IQ Squared presents Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call for Radical Change – London, 4th November
, 09/08/2019
The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. On November 4th Intelligence Squared is bringing to its stage two of the world’s great radicals – Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister known for his trademark leather jacket, motorbike and […]
MeRA25: Greek progressives’ chance to take the fight against austerity back into Parliament – JACOBIN
, 11/06/2019
Amid the bad results for the Left in the European elections, the Greek outcome was particularly poignant. In the last such contest in 2014, Syriza rode the revolt against austerity to become the largest single party, in its final step toward national office. Five years later, in last month’s election, it finished ten points behind the […]