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1 week ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
A Chinese new Bretton Woods? Opinion Piece By | 16/06/2025 china Donald Trump United States Donald Trump has made it impossible for any sensible person to persevere in the delusion that global business can continue as usual.
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2 weeks ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
The Spring Meetings of the World Bank are usually placid affairs that participating central bankers wish to forget soon after they are over. Not this Spring. This April the feeling several central bankers brought back home with them was not the usual relief but something far more visceral: dread, terror even. The reason?
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3 weeks ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
The astonishing case of Ursula von der LeyenIt is one of life’s guilty pleasures when one’s cynical prejudices are confirmed.
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3 weeks ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder, supports the Global March to Gaza as an act of global disobedience against genocide and silence. He calls on all of us to stand with Gaza and resist inhumanity done in our name. The Global March to Gaza is more than a march. It is an act of global disobedience against one of the most brutal, enduring and profitable (ask Lockheed-Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir, ELBIT, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Maersk, Barclays Bank, Allianz, BNP Paribas etc.) genocides.
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1 month ago | 
diem25.org | Brian Eno
As an Advisory Board member of DiEM25, and someone who has been involved with our movement since the very beginning, Brian Eno has long been a guiding voice for justice, creativity, and democratic values. In this open letter, he addresses Microsoft – where his iconic Windows 95 start-up chime first met the ears of millions – with a stark new message:In the mid-1990s, I was asked to compose a short piece of music for Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system.
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1 month ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
Πριν από ογδόντα χρόνια σαν σήμερα, η φριχτή μηχανή του Τρίτου Ράιχ πολτοποιήθηκε. Η σβάστικα ξεριζώθηκε από το Ράιχσταγκ, τα στρατόπεδα θανάτου απελευθερώθηκαν, κι η Ευρώπη — ματωμένη, πληγωμένη, αλλά αλύγιστη — βγήκε από τη σκοτεινότερη νύχτα της Ιστορίας. Δεν ήταν απλώς μια στρατιωτική νίκη· ήταν ο θρίαμβος της αλληλεγγύης έναντι του φασισμού, του διεθνισμού έναντι της φυλετικής τυραννίας, του ανθρωπισμού έναντι της βιομηχανοποιημένης σφαγής.
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1 month ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
As we honour those who defeated fascism in 1945, we must recognise the fight is far from overEighty years ago today, the monstrous machinery of the Third Reich was finally ground to dust. The swastika was torn from the Reichstag, the death camps were liberated, and Europe – bloodied, traumatised, but unbowed – emerged from history’s darkest night.
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1 month ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
The Trump Shock has revealed just how unprepared the UK and EU are for a collapsing global orderThere is a delicious irony in the way our governing centrists, in the United Kingdom and the European Union, are lamenting the Trump Shock. They wax lyrical about the globalised, financialised capitalist order which they now mourn. They portray it as a golden age, a natural global system of free trade and benign capital flows. Are they truly oblivious to the facts of recent economic history?
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2 months ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
For the technofeudal lords, losing money from Trump’s tariff extravaganza in the short run is a tiny price to pay for a massive long term ‘investment’ in their empireAfter 1971, neoliberalism was an ideology essential in legitimising the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles of the New Deal and the post-war Bretton Woods system. Today, a new form of capital is on the ascendancy and needs its own ideology to be fully liberated: cloud capital.
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2 months ago | 
diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis gave a speech alongside Juliet Stevenson, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal at a press conference titled ‘Democracy Under Fire’, at the Foreign Press Association, Royal Overseas League, London, on April 11. Here it is in full:We are here today because democracy is on death row, because the treasured right to dissent is at gunpoint, because your capacity to do journalism is under fire.