About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the decline of American power and the media's portrayal of the Ukraine war.

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau analyse the structural decay of American hegemony at its 250-year milestone, while exposing the corporate and political motivations behind the media's distorted Ukraine war narrative used to justify a domestic defence heist funded by ballooning public debt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• American hegemony
• Ukraine war narrative
• corporate motivations
• political motivations
• public debt
• media distortion

Keywords

• American hegemony
• Ukraine
• media narrative
• public debt
• politics
• corporate interests

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