Yanis Varoufakis: ‘The technolords control our minds’
The former Greek finance minister warns of the dangers of what he calls cloud capital, the driving force behind technofeudalism
Slavoj Žižek, philosopher: ‘Wisdom is what I hate most, it is absolute conformist stupidity’
The Slovenian thinker, always controversial and politically incorrect, believes the good old days of liberal social democracy are over. In an exclusive interview, he says we are facing a new era in which it’s not possible to think of a better world, but merely of survival
A critical look at the Trump Doctrine
The inauguration speech of the new U.S. president has already provided a colossal shock, a stress test for American democracy and the international liberal order
Ghassan Abu-Sitta, volunteer doctor in Gaza and Lebanon: ‘Children live in houses. So, when you bomb houses, you kill children’
The Palestinian-British surgeon became a household name for his wartime work in the Strip and he is once again treating victims of Israeli attacks in Beirut: ‘Same ammunition, same perpetrators, same injuries, same age groups…’
Financial nihilism: The end of faith in the real value of money
More and more people, especially those between the ages of 20 and 35, are investing in cryptocurrencies. They have lost confidence in the intrinsic value of money and in the conventional ways of obtaining it
Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Capitalism is dead. The new order is a techno-feudal economy’
The former finance minister of Greece warns that politicians can’t do anything about the growing power of big business
Focus on coalition horse-trading as Greek election looks unlikely to deliver a strong winner
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Sunday’s vote looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season — barring a surprise coalition deal by dissonant opposition parties
Greece train crash: Government support falls as election looms
The deadly accident is weighing heavily on the minds of voters, but so far the leftist Syriza has been unable to capitalize on the anti-government sentiment