Brazil’s newly re-elected President Lula da Silva has hit the ground running, recently traveling to China where he called for the international community to abandon the US Dollar as the default currency of global trade. In truth, this process is already underway but Lula puts himself at great personal risk by promoting de-dollarization.
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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