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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, the left-wing European political party he co-founded in 2016.

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Yanis Varoufakis
said · Feb 3, 2023
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Why did the original Non-Aligned Movement fall prey to neo-imperialism's highest form, which is of course globalization, financialized capitalist globalization?

US ‘neo-imperialist’ dollar scheme explained by economist Yanis Varoufakis", Geopolitical Economy Report (3 February 2023)

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Yanis Varoufakis
said · Feb 3, 2023
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What did they understand better than we did?

US ‘neo-imperialist’ dollar scheme explained by economist Yanis Varoufakis", Geopolitical Economy Report (3 February 2023)

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Yanis Varoufakis
said · Feb 3, 2023
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And how right Nixon was. As the American - the US, I shouldn't say American - as the US deficit skyrocketed, the world was flooded with American dollars.

US ‘neo-imperialist’ dollar scheme explained by economist Yanis Varoufakis", Geopolitical Economy Report (3 February 2023)

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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, the left-wing European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Alexis Tsipras in 2015, during the 2009-2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he became internationally known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures.

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