E55: Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs on the Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity
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Jeffrey Sachs and Yanis Varoufakis worked together a decade ago to prevent Europe from harming itself by crushing Greece. They failed. Since then, Europe’s self-harming policies exacerbated by a lethal dependence on, and servility to, the US have had nasty repercussions for Ukraine, Palestine as well as Europe’s relations with China.
Now that Trump is back, with Europe’s Green Deal already abandoned, the world is facing the perfect storm: intense trade (and thus class) wars, a mounting Cold War with China, an ultra-hot war in Ukraine, a heart-wrenching genocide in Palestine, and an accelerating climate emergency.
In this episode, Jeffrey Sachs and Yanis Varoufakis get back together again to reminisce, to take stock of a world spinning out of control and, crucially, to propose tangible solutions that we must campaign for today.
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I don't know Yannis, love your sharp analyses.. but you seem to illustrate more and more the political concept of the horseshoe.. if you go so far left you eventually end up very close to the far right. You reserve zero criticism for Putin and Russian politics. Even if these provocations are true, does Russia really have to wage this war? Come on. Is he not a dictator? Don't they have even (far) less democracy then we do? I agree, there is much to criticize the EU for, ...but this is ALL you do!