recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth
increase of half a trillion dollars – enough to pay for every person on the planet to get a vaccine.
In this UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill discusses with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis what is driving the staggering wealth inequalities and how governments are offering socialism for the rich, and austerity for the rest.
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I dont thin captialism has nullified iitself but shaped itself into a new format
deterritoraliziwng and rting at insane rates as it reaches planetarey levels unseen before
markets are platforms but platorms are simpy the newest form of market adn the danger is
the space race the boding monstosity of
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There is no alternative", "it's the end of history" in the shadow of the 2008 crash, the environmental crisis and ongoing COVID19 pandemic, never has the hubris of these words been more striking. Nevertheless if we are in fact at the end of an era, what comes next?
Join us in uncovering the exciting possibilities that the future can hold with public intellectual Noam Chomsky and economists Ann Pettifor and Yanis Varoufakis.
I've not watched it but it's sure to be the CHomsky doom day predictions! He resembles more an dmore the later Bobby Fischer
or some old Testament prophet come back to tell you all, to tell you all
that was not what is meant his gloomy prognosticans and
negavtive apocalypse!
I dont know Ann Pettifor and I've not read any of Yanis Varoufakis.
________ BUt obviously I know who he is, and who he was and what role he played in Greece in the big crisis of 5 , 6 yrs. ago.
What a pity we don't have such minds in Canada. There was Linda Mcquaig for a while but her ideas of NDP are really too mild
I dont mean when she ran I guess Torontoians were too stupid to elect her and anyhow she might not have
but now NDP is justa button down dress party,
Yet another compromised beyond care and hope
It's finisehd if anyone imagines they are left in any meanignful or real sense of the term.
Canada what ever it is, is mostly governed by compromised Captialists whose vision is regional at best
and narrow minded with no broader picture availing and Quebec is virtually the North Korea of Canada minus the death camps and starvation famines
But the government is pretty much demagogic fascist & has played ot the fascist tendencies... of anyone nationalists group in this case French Canadians with their pathetic one language paranoia and-fascism combined.
People were saying that Tump was facist with despotic drives but really it's Quebec right in Canada plahying the piper for what its worth.. Fascism
slips in sneakly like a safe cracker and it started witht eh natilist movemenets itself
and when they lost theyr ha their hereo Mulorooeny
