Anya
Parampil reports on an announcement this week from Venezuela that the
country will stop using the US dollar on its exchange markets,
instead adopting the euro. Venezuela says the decision comes as part
of an effort to subvert US imperial sabotage of the country. Former
UK MP George Galloway joins In Question to discuss how the US
uses the dollar as a weapon and why more and more countries abandon
the US currency.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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