Yanis Varoufakis
@yanisvaroufakis
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Economics professor, quietly writing obscure economic texts for years, until thrust onto the public scene by Europe's inane handling of an inevitable crisis
Athens, Greece
Joined March 2010
RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women. Unlike anything I have written before, it focuses on 5 women who taught me how to resist fascism, authoritarianism, chauvinism &... hopelessness
yanisvaroufakis.eu
Hello everyone. RAISE YOUR SOUL! is my new book which I am taking the liberty of presenting to you. It is unlike anything I have written before. Setting aside high theory, it is the story of five...
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🧵 Important development: The EU's own legal experts (one a former ECJ judge) confirm what I've said all along - sanctions on JOURNALISTS like me violate EU law. I'm banned from travelling, working, accessing my accounts & supporting my family WITHOUT a hearing or due process.
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Introducing Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) 2.0, in partnership with @Qualcomm Advanced visual AI is now on your phone, and in your home cameras. AI that understands your photos and videos, runs 100% privately and securely. ALL on-device. The beginning of on-device
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Αυτή την εβδομάδα στους Econoclasts, ο Wolfgang κι εγώ καταρρίπτουμε δύο ακόμη καθεστωτικές οικονομικές δοξασίες. Ο Wolfgang αμφισβητεί την ευρέως διαδεδομένη πεποίθηση ότι το ευρώ ήρθε για να μείνει και διερευνά τα βαθιά δομικά ελαττώματα που δεν επιδιορθώθηκαν ποτέ,
unherd.com
This week on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk two more establishment orthodoxies. First, Wolfgang challenges the widespread belief that the euro is a safe and permanent...
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This week on The Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I debunk two more establishment orthodoxies. First, Wolfgang challenges the widespread belief that the euro is a safe and permanent currency and investigates the deep structural flaws that were never fixed, exploring whether a new
unherd.com
This week on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk two more establishment orthodoxies. First, Wolfgang challenges the widespread belief that the euro is a safe and permanent...
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“Banning fascist parties won’t stop fascism.” — Yanis Varoufakis explains why outlawing extremist parties is a shortcut that backfires Watch the whole discussion between @yanisvaroufakis and @EuroBriefing on @unherd's Econoclasts podcast: https://t.co/cORcblYTA5
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Ένα πρόσφατο στατιστικό στοιχείο που κεντρίζει το ενδιαφέρον: Κατά τους πρώτους 6 μήνες του 2025, η Κίνα εγκατέστησε φωτοβολταϊκά που παράγουν 250 GW ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας. Αυτά αντιστοιχούν περίπου στο 150% της συνολικής παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας της Γαλλίας...
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A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...
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Η ημίτρελη φον ντερ Λάιεν τείνει πλέον στην πλήρη παράνοια, δημιουργώντας τη δική της... CIA με έδρα τις Βρυξέλλες!
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Body to collate material from national agencies and improve its operational use
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The half-crazy von der Leyen is now verging to full blown madness setting up her own Brussels-grown CIA...
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Body to collate material from national agencies and improve its operational use
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Raffi Berg, the BBC's online Middle East editor, is suing Owen Jones for publishing an investigation in which numerous BBC whistleblowers accused him of skewing news in Israel’s favour. Here Berg tells an interviewer that “as a Jewish person and admirer of the state of Israel”
🚨BREAKING: BBC Middle East News Editor Raffi Berg ADMITS the MOSSAD makes him proud and give him GOOSEBUMPS. REVEALS he is an ADMIRER of Israel and in the CIRCLE OF TRUST with the MOSSAD😲
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COP30 opens in Brazil today with a highway carved through the Amazon and hundreds of delegates arriving on private jets to “save” the planet. Pure climate theatre, performed by the very people cashing in on the crisis. https://t.co/yGc10FnvYT
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The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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🚨BBC and Guardian editors held secret meetings with Israel's former army chief one month after the Gaza bombing began. The meetings were seen by Israel as a key avenue for promoting the brutal onslaught in Gaza. https://t.co/MkQAllpLTo
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Exclusive: Former IDF chief of staff met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza, it can be revealed.
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“I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.”
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IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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Leaked emails reveal Dean Godson, a Tory Lord and director of Policy Exchange, boasted about playing a "key role" in orchestrating a Daily Mail hit piece on Jeremy Corbyn👇 https://t.co/7YCjTWPOro
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Former Conservative party treasurer told an Israeli diplomat: ‘You still have friends close to number ten!!!’
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Συζητάμε με τον Τάσο Παππά και τον Δημήτρη Κανελλόπουλο στο βδομαδιάτικο podcast της Εφημερίδας των Συντακτών
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Στο νέο επεισόδιο από τις «Ανάγωγες Κουβέντες», της εβδομαδιαίας σειράς podcast της «Εφ.Συν.», το οποίο ανεβαίνει στο efsyn.gr και τις πλατφόρμες κάθε Κυριακή πρωί, ο Τάσος Παππάς και ο Δημήτρης...
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On Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1
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Ah yes, those evil women who had the audacity to want equal rights, pay and for men to not be creepy at work. Seriously, fuck the New York Times.
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Starting from morning hours, settler terror attacks have been rampant throughout the occupied West Bank. Any kind of prevention? Arrests? Protection for the Palestinian civilians? Nothing at all. The occupation forces and the KKK settler terrorists have long already become one
מהבוקר משתולל ללא כל הגבלה טרור מתנחבלי ברחבי הגדה המערבית הכבושה. מניעה? מעצרים? הגנה לפלסטינים? שום כלום. צבא הכיבוש ומתנחבלי ה-KKK כבר מזמן הפכו לאחד ויחיד. סרבו להיות קלגסים! התנגדו לממשלת הרצח והטרור! היאבקו נגד הכיבוש!
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Join us live on Tuesday!
What does @ZohranKMamdani's breakthrough victory in New York signal for the Left? Join @yanisvaroufakis & @profwolff as they unpack the political earthquake shaking America’s political establishment. Hosted by @mkhalili LIVE, Tue, Nov 11 @ 17:00 CET 🔗 https://t.co/AxDtvRwETx
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“Everyone takes a role in the escalation of the dehumanization of Palestinians.”
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In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical
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Η Ευρώπη δεν μπορεί να αναχαιτίσει την ακροδεξιά - Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης & Βόλφγκανγκ Μούνχαου | The Econoclasts
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