An in depth discussion with Marxist economist, author and co-founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about the U.S. healthcare approach to the coronavirus and its economic implications. Examination of the U.S medical industrial complex, globalisation and the role financialization has played on healthcare, and whether government intervention can lead to distortions in the economy and even authoritarianism. Whether the concept of democracy at work can function during imminent crises such as the recent pandemic. Lastly, Wolff provides his opinion on Bernie Sanders endorsing Joe Biden and voting for the lesser of two evils.
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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