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19. November 2017

How to Save Europe | Video Series with Yanis Varoufakis

In this video series we talk to the founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author & former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, about the European New Deal – a socioeconomic plan proposed by his movement that aims to tackle the difficulties faced by Europe today.


18. November 2017

EDITORIAL PICK: Trump’s Crackdown on RT Met by Media, NGO Silence | Max Blumenthal

In this video award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Max Blumenthal, talks about the wider implications of the decision made by the U.S. Justice Department to force Russia Today (RT) to register as as a foreign agent. In addition Blumenthal analyses the forces and reasons behind this decision as well why progressive media outlets are failing to cover this issue.


16. November 2017

Tinder Box Middle East: The final battle of the Petro-Dollar

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15. November 2017

Dr. Daniele Ganser Exclusive: The Basics – Geopolitics, Foreign Policy UN & Covert Operations

In this educational video with Swiss historian, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER), Dr. Daniele Ganser, we define and discuss basic definitions and institutions that are necessary to understand when analysing global politics. In addition we talk about concrete examples of covert operations undertaken by Western governments since World War II.


14. November 2017

EDITORIAL PICK: “The Only Way to Confront a War Economy is to Confront a Culture of War” | Vijay Prashad

In this speech Vijay Prashad, professfor of international studies at the Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, talks about U.S. militarization from an historical perspective and the effects it has on the culture at home.


10. November 2017

Is the Solution Reform or Revolution? | With Economist Richard D. Wolff

In this educational video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about whether the solutions to today’s socio-economic problems lie within reform or revolution.


EDITORIAL PICK: How Saudi Arabia influences Opinion & Policy in Washington D.C.

In this week’s acTVism Editorial Pick, Aaron Mate from The Real News Network interviews The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Ryan Grim, about how Saudi Arabia and the UAE influence opinion and policy in Washington D.C.. In addition they talk about Saudi Arabian & regional politics as well as what mechanisms are employed by the Saudi establishment in order to maintain a narrative of “modernization”.


9. November 2017

Book Recommendation of the Week: Choas. The New Age of Revolutions

Nach dem Erfolg seines Werkes “Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation“, das die Entstehungsgeschichte globaler Krisen untersucht, widmet sich der Berliner Autor und Mitbegründer von Kontext TV in seinem neuen Buch der Gegenwart und Zukunft.


7. November 2017

Yanis Varoufakis on Debtors’ Prison, John Maynard Keynes & the Double Standards of the EU

In this video founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, talks about the concept of “Debtors’ Prison” and the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes. In addition Varoufakis surfaces the double standards of the European Union regarding the enforcement of economic rules amongst different member states.