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Yanis Varoufakis

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Subverter of the dominant paradigm

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Greetings from Occupied Athens. As Marco Rubio is visiting, we are in lockdown. The boss of our rulers demanded that Athenians are under lock and key so that he feels safe as he inspects his troops. One day we shall be free again. But not today. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

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Rubio arrives in Athens ahead of meetings, business deals | eKathimerini.com

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Athens late Tuesday for a visit expected to see the signing of a series of deals on new US weapons purchases by Greece.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be 'ostracised' by the war-mongering, genocide-cheerleading German Greens is to be on the side of the good - it is a badge of honour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, I discuss with Aditya Chakrabortty how powerbrokers co-opt elected officials, rendering our democracies demos-free zones. Also my assessment of Andy Burnham's plans to 'rewire' the UK economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ72...

“There’s no such thing as democracy” – Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

YouTube video by Politics Weekly

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Centrists Built the AfD | Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley - on DiEM-tv www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5g...

The Centrists Built the AfD | Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley

YouTube video by DiEM25

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US-China Summit wasn’t a failure, even if it produced no tangible results. Also, why the West does not 'do' re-industrialisation well - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaN...

The US-China Summit wasn’t what you’ve been told - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Η στρόφιγγα ευρωπαϊκών κονδυλίων κλείνει – Ώρα για απεξάρτηση της Ελλάδας από τον ευρωπαϊκό πακτωλό που μας κρατά σε υστέρηση και διεφθαρμένους mera25.gr/i-strofinga-...

Η στρόφιγγα ευρωπαϊκών κονδυλίων κλείνει - Ώρα για απεξάρτηση της Ελλάδας από τον ευρωπαϊκό πακτωλό που μας κρατά σε υστέρηση και διεφθαρμένους

Η ώρα για να απεξαρτηθεί η Ελλάδα από τον εκ Βρυξελλών ορμώμενο πακτωλό με αντίτιμο την μόνιμη «επιχρυσωμένη» υπανάπτυξη και διαπλοκή πρέπει να σταματήσει.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5g...

The Centrists Built the AfD | Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley

YouTube video by DiEM25

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Το Ευρωπαϊκό Κέντρο πληρώνει το τίμημα του εξτρεμισμού του www.news247.gr/gnomes/to-ev...

Το Ευρωπαϊκό Κέντρο πληρώνει το τίμημα του εξτρεμισμού του

Το AfD δεν ενισχύθηκε επειδή, από τη μια μέρα στην άλλη, εκατομμύρια Γερμανοί έζησαν μια επιφοίτηση που τους κατέστησε πιο ευάλωτους στο σαγηνευτικό κάλεσμα του μεταμοντέρνου φασισμού.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The center-left's slow suicide | A compromised Left is the Right’s delight unherd.com/2026/09/the-...

The centre-left's slow suicide

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Πως θα επηρεάσει τη γενοκτονία των Παλαιστίνιων μία εκλογική ήττα του Νετανιάχου; Τι σημαίνει η "στρατηγική συμμαχία" Ελλάδας-Ισραήλ; Πως βλέπει το ΜέΡΑ25 το μέλλον της σχέσης Ελλάδας-Τουρκίας; www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_8...

Is Greece making a mistake by getting too close to Israel? Yanis Varoufakis explains

YouTube video by Strait Talk

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is Greece making a mistake by getting too close to Israel? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_8...

Is Greece making a mistake by getting too close to Israel? Yanis Varoufakis explains

YouTube video by Strait Talk

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Die Linke won the Berlin election and the establishment has gone into a frenzy, co-opting in its genocide-tolerant campaign Die Linke's powerful Zionist wing. We stand in solidarity with the good people in Die Linke resisting all this. diem25.org/berlin-voted...

Berlin: Voted left, spoken right - MERA25 und DiEM25 in Deutschland

Statement on racism, Islamophobia, the misuse of accusations of anti-Semitism, and the Zionist smear campaign against the Left Party in Berlin Full solidarity with our comrades who defend Palestine, w...

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Berlin: Voted left, spoken right diem25.org/berlin-voted...

Berlin: Voted left, spoken right - MERA25 und DiEM25 in Deutschland

Statement on racism, Islamophobia, the misuse of accusations of anti-Semitism, and the Zionist smear campaign against the Left Party in Berlin Full solidarity with our comrades who defend Palestine, w...

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Στο τελευταίο επεισόδιο των «Econoclasts», ο Βόλφγκανγκ αναλύει τις πρόσφατες εκλογικές ήττες του CDU, ενώ, στο δεύτερο μέρος, υποστηρίζω ότι για την βαθειά κρίση της Ευρώπης ευθύνεται κυρίως η Κεντροαριστερά www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0h...

Germany can't recover from this - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang dissects the recent CDU electoral disasters while, in the second segment, I argue that Europe's wholesale slump needs to be blamed primarily on the compromised, defeated, co-opted Centre Left www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0h...

Germany can't recover from this - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The AI Productivity Delusion: As with previous tech revolutions, it is natural to focus on AI's net effects: Will it create more than it destroys? But unlike previous eras of creative destruction, the real question this time is, “Create more of what?” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

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The AI Productivity Delusion

Yanis Varoufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only an Uncompromised Left Can Defeat the Fascists. The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the crisis it helped inflame and, so, the far right is on the march across Europe. The only anti-fascist economics that can stop it is an unambiguously socialist economics. zeteo.uk/p/when-the-l...

Here’s How the Left Can Defeat the Fascists

The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the capitalist crisis it helped create and the far right is on the march across Europe. Only anti-fascist economics, writes Yanis Varoufakis, can stop it.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes Mr Macron. Gaza shamed you all. And it will continue to shame you as long as your complicity with Israel's genocide continues, because of (rather than despite) your crocodile tears at the UN. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

France rebukes world over Gaza as Canada, UK back Palestinian state at UNGA

France's Macron says suffering in Gaza should 'shame all of us' as Canada's Carney pledges $71m for two-state efforts.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Breaking Points discussing the war in Ukraine, Europe's political woes, Trump and more. x.com/BreakingPoin...

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Ukraine launches a massive attack on Moscow targeting oil infrastructure as war escalates. Yanis Varoufakis reacts: "Almost four years since the beginning of this all out war, we ended up in an aerial...

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of all the blueprints I have read on how to redress the long-term damage austerity and financialisation have inflicted upon Britain's society, this one is the most impressive - and hope inspiring. A must read.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’ve got some big plans, and we need your help to make them happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGZ...

Help us build a studio of resistance in Brussels

YouTube video by DiEM25

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The real AI threat isn't what you think - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzi...

The real AI threat isn't what you think - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Το πέρασμα της από αυτό τον κόσμο άφησε τις Ελληνίδες πιο ελεύθερες, ανεξάρτητες, ικανές να ορίζουν τις τύχες τους. Στην Μαργαρίτα Παπανδρέου αξίζουν τιμές που κάποια στιγμή θα αποδοθούν. Θα μου λειψει η σκέψη της φυσικής της παρουσίας. Και θα την κρατώ στη σκέψη μου. www.news247.gr/ellada/petha...

Πέθανε η Μαργαρίτα Παπανδρέου

Την τελευταία της πνοή, σε ηλικία 103 ετών, άφησε η Μαργαρίτα Παπανδρέου, μια προσωπικότητα που ανέπτυξε σημαντική δράση σε ζητήματα σχετικά με τα δικαιώματα των γυναικών και την κοινωνική πολιτική.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang & I expose the hypocrisy of AI techlords calling for their own 'containment'. In reality their apocalyptic warnings are marketing ploys and attempts at getting governments to release them from anti-trust regulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzi...

The real AI threat isn't what you think - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has she lost the very last of her remaining marbles? Ms von der Leyen offered Canada associate membership of the EU. That would have been fine if it were not for a tiny little snag: there is no such thing as associate membership of the EU! www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On BBC World Service, the NEWSDAY program, this morning, challenging the techlords' BS that they want us to... restrain them. on.soundcloud.com/XNBxlJVqnApB...

BBC World Service Newsday AI Armaggeddon

Listen to BBC World Service Newsday AI Armaggeddon by yanisv #np on #SoundCloud

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lest we forget: the dark legacy of 9/111 that still haunts the very prospect of Western democracy www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

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Sept. 11, 1973: U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile

Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, but a premeditated, calculated, intentional act." www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s happening again. Germany just crossed a line. - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallout from the AfD’s electoral breakthrough in Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zF...

Germany just broke the EU's firewall - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ΔΕΘ 2026: Η σημερινή Συνέντευξη Τύπου του Γραμματέα του ΜέΡΑ25. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGj...

ΔΕΘ 2026: Συνέντευξη Τύπου Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη

YouTube video by ΜέΡΑ25

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

«Λιτότητα για τους πολλούς, «σοσιαλισμός» για τους τραπεζίτες»! Νίκος Θεοχαράκης, Συντονιστής της ΚΕ του ΜέΡΑ25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFpG...

«Λιτότητα για τους πολλούς, «σοσιαλισμός» για τους τραπεζίτες»! Νίκος Θεοχαράκης

YouTube video by Militaire News

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In the latest Econoclasts, we, first, dissect the fallout of Iceland’s referendum and, then, we debate amongst each other whether a European capital markets union can revive investment or simply feed a stagnant ‘rent trap.’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ep...

Iceland just shattered the EU illusion - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Deeply ashamed that, despite a sizeable majority of Greeks opposing the genocidal Apartheid state, we have allowed our ruling class to taint Greece through this despicable deal. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Greece, Israel to sign $3.6 billion defense deal amid Turkey, Iran threats | The Jerusalem Post

The agreement, which has been under discussion for three years, will provide Athens with a multilayered air defense system against potential threats from Turkey and Iran.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ντροπή! Τίποτα άλλο. Ντροπή! thepressproject.gr/aspida-tou-a...

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«Ασπίδα του Αχιλλέα»: Υπεγράφη η συμφωνία των 3,035 δισ. ευρώ μεταξύ Ελλάδας και του γενοκτόνου κράτους του Ισραηλ για τον αντι-drone «θόλο» - The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεό...

Στο Τελ Αβίβ υπεγράφη σήμερα η Διακρατική Συμφωνία μεταξύ του ελληνικού υπουργείου Εθνικής Άμυνας και του γενοκτόνου κράτους του Ισραήλ για την ανάπτυξη του αντιαεροπορικού, αντιβαλλιστικού και αντι-d...

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

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AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics

Yanis Varoufakis cites adherents’ belief that, unlike in the West, the technology will avoid capitalism’s “rent trap.”

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just after the end of the USSR, Fredrik Jameson wrote that, for many, it had become easier to imagine the End of the World than to contemplate the End of Capitalism. Well, The Econoclasts will be doing exactly that. LIVE at the Unherd Club. On 18/9 Join us! club.unherd.com/event/the-ec...

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The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism - UnHerd Club

What comes after the era of capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau continue their mission to dismantle economic orthodoxy – and this time, they’re tackling the ultimate settled fact: the pe...

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ιn this week's Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I question whether the US $ truly shields Americans from the vagaries of default. In the 2nd section, I argue that Chinese AI, unlike Silicon Valley's version, has a truly revolutionary potential - and not just for China www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ka...

America is spiralling towards a debt crisis - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Goodness gracious! For Scot Bessent to enlist Pascal's Wager in the Financial Times against Iran, Washington must be in the psychological state that lies just beyond panic: despair. www.ft.com/content/cb86...

Scott Bessent: an economic D-Day is coming for Iran

Countries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The transformation of Greece into an Israeli satellite is proceeding at breakneck speed. This bodes ill for the majority of Greeks, for peace in our region and for Europe and West Asia more broadly. It must be resisted. www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/gr...

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Greece's alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability

Athens sees Israel as an important partner, but the relationship is facing mounting anger over arms sales, high rents and Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In this special episode of The Econoclasts, my friend & fellow economist Rick Wolff tells me that the US empire is cracking - and explains why, whatever your actual politics may be, you can do a lot worse than immerse yourself in Marxist political economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFQ9...

The US empire is cracking - Yanis Varoufakis & Richard D. Wolff | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Britain is about to make the same mistake again - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrx...

Europe has lost control: Varoufakis & Munchau on wealth taxes & Europe’s economic doom loop

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And so the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank accelerates against the backdrop of the never-ending genocide in Gaza

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What Homer, Ovid and Christopher Nolan Can Teach Us about AI | We Built Achilles’ New Armour. They Wear It! unherd.com/2026/08/the-...

The Odyssey as AI allegory

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Palestinian pragmatism, no matter how authentic or painfully earned, remains powerless against an occupier whose political survival depends on perpetual war, and for whom no Palestinian compromise is ever enough." www.972mag.com/khalil-al-ha...

Hamas’ new ‘warrior leader’ faces his first challenge

Khalil Al-Hayya is a known pragmatist. But the group’s militant wing aided his election — and it won’t accept Israel’s deliberately unworkable demands.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Marxist Case For The Technofeudal Hypothesis - out now in TRANSFORM REVIEW www.transform.review/the-marxist-...

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The Marxist Case For The Technofeudal Hypothesis

WHAT’S NEW IN CAPITALISM?

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ιn this episode The Econoclasts discuss China’s growth and local debt crisis, and expose how decades of central bank bailouts for Big Business fuelled an inflated wealth bubble that turned the West into a hostage of US asset price inflation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY3C...

An invisible crisis is taking shape - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts

YouTube video by UnHerd

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

John Mearsheimer & Yanis Varoufakis Debate: Can China Rise PEACEFULLY? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrl...

John Mearsheimer & Yanis Varoufakis Debate: Can China Rise PEACEFULLY?

YouTube video by Katie Halper

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The UK economy's main problem | On Times Radio www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyA...

How Andy Burnham Can Fix The UK Economy | Yanis Varoufakis

YouTube video by Times News

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Whenever the apt analogy is drawn between South African Apartheid and Israeli Apartheid, cynics and doubters ask: If so, where is the Palestinian Nelson Mandela? The answer is: Languishing in prison, tortured and menaced around the clock for 24 endless years. His name? Marwan Barghouti.