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When the bombs began to rain down on Iran, I predicted Donald Trump’s Waterloo. Watching his MAGA coalition, a noxious brew of working-class resentment and tax cuts for billionaires, descend into a civil class war, I paraphrased Churchill on the Battle of El Alamein: in his second term, before Iran, Trump had never faced a […]
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Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while […]
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I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront A screengrab of an AI-generated image of ‘Yanis Varoufakis’ from a deepfake video on YouTube. Illustration: YouTube It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think […]
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I warn that Trump’s pay‑to‑play “Board of Peace” and mercantilist drive — enabled by placid European centrists — are reshaping and threatening the post–World War II democratic order, from plans to reoccupy Gaza to designs on Greenland.
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I argue that Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is an imperialist construct that will undermine and ultimately dissolve the United Nations and the foundations of international law.
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Fascism by the Book Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Jan 27, 2026 Yanis Varoufakis Anyone who thinks that fascism had been vanquished for good in the mid-20th century should look to Minneapolis and other American cities. In Donald Trump’s America, and perhaps coming to other countries soon, the panoply of fascism’s strategies requires remarkably little […]
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On The Chris Hedges Report I argue that Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is not a genuinely new world order but a revival of traditional colonial dominance in response to China’s rise, and I examine its repercussions—AI’s role in Gaza, attacks by the Israel lobby, the risk of NATO’s implosion, and what lies ahead for Gaza […]
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Can we escape AI slavery? Only the Left can tame big tech Yanis Varoufakis · 12 Feb 2026 · 6 mins This is light years beyond mere surveillance capitalism. (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty) Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, did not have two separate heads, but rather was two faces bound together into one divine […]
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Late Night Live and I go back almost three decades. Having been interviewed by Richard Ackland, multiple times by my great friend Phillip Adams, I now found myself in the studio with, current host, David Marr. Long live LNL! Program: Late Night Live Broadcast: Thu 5 Mar 2026 at 11:00am Play duration: 54 minutes 4 […]
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