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8. December 2025

Global Capitalism: Affordability: Why So Much Costs Too Much and What to do About it

We are currently in our annual crowdfunding campaign. If you want our independent and non-profit media network to continue in 2025, please participate in this campaign by clicking here. In our capitalist economy, employers pay wages and set prices that together determine whether a decent life is affordable. Employers’ goal is to maximize their profit. But employees […]


11. November 2025

Rant of the Week: Tax Elon Musk Out Of Existence!

A compensation package of unprecedented scale – and what it reveals about our economic system.In this video, investigative journalist and human rights lawyer Dimitri Lascaris examines the implications of Tesla’s decision in favor of Elon Musk – and what it says about power, responsibility, and the state of modern democracy. This video was produced by […]


8. November 2025

Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley: Why Everything Feels Broken

In this discussion recorded in Athens, Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis expose how our so-called democracies have been captured by elites. From Gaza to the climate crisis to the collapse of liberal politics, they explore why even “progressive” leaders are absorbed by the system they enter, how neoliberalism has hollowed out collective power, and why […]


9. September 2025

Economic Update: Government Deficits; Why They Happen, Who Benefits From Them, and MMT

This episode was recorded in June this year and Professor Wolff explains what deficits are and why the capitalist system enables and invites employers to cause them. He then proceeds to explain how deficits both solve specific problems of capitalism while also causing others. Over time, problems accumulate to undermine the credit of the US […]


4. August 2025

The U.S.-E.U. Trade Deal: Too Awful To Be True

Last week, after months of tough talk from Donald Trump, the Trump administration and the European Commission announced a new ‘trade deal’ between the United States and the European Union. Within days, however, conflicting accounts emerged about the key terms of the deal. The Trump administration claims, for example, that the EU will invest $600 […]


19. May 2025

Yanis Varoufakis on the EU’s policy toward Ukraine, global trade, and the destruction of Gaza

We are transitioning away from YouTube. Be sure to subscribe to the following channels to stay updated with our journalism: ► RUMBLE► TELEGRAM In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The two discuss the economic and political fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, particularly in Europe, and […]


2. May 2025

Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs on the Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity

Yanis Varoufakis & Jeffrey D. Sachs über die größten Krisen unserer Zeit


21. April 2025

Tariff Chaos and the Trump ‘C Team’ w/ Prof. Costas Lapavitsas

Tariff Chaos and the Trump ‘C Team’ w/ Prof. Costas Lapavitsas


17. April 2025

Trumps absurde Handelspolitik führt zur Verarmung der Amerikaner & schadet der Welt

Trumps absurde Handelspolitik führt zur Verarmung der Amerikaner & schadet der Welt