These Times - Revolution in Syria

These Times - Revolution in Syria

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America’s midterm illusion & Europe’s spiralling youth revolt

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the myth of the American swing voter ahead of the midterms, reveal why escalating youth riots across Europe are far more dangerous than the French protests of 1968, and dissect the stagnation driving ...  Show more

Brazil's class war victory & AI's silent jobs crisis

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallouts in Brazil and Serbia to debunk the prevailing narrative that the rise of the Right is an inevitable force that can only be mitigated by centrist technocracy, while revealing t ...  Show more

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