[Peace-discuss] For AWARE ON THE AIR this week

[Karen Medina]

Carl Estabrook wrote: > Someone’s got to read and report on the
Pentagon’s 2015 National Military Strategy:

Also, two people (interviewer and interviewee) read Die Zeit's
interview with Piketty

DIE ZEIT: Should we Germans be happy that even the French government
is aligned with the German dogma of austerity?

Thomas Piketty: Absolutely not. This is neither a reason for France,
nor Germany, and especially not for Europe, to be happy. I am much
more afraid that the conservatives, especially in Germany, are about
to destroy Europe and the European idea, all because of their shocking
ignorance of history.

ZEIT: But we Germans have already reckoned with our own history.

Piketty: But not when it comes to repaying debts! Germany’s past, in
this respect, should be of great significance to today’s Germans. Look
at the history of national debt: Great Britain, Germany, and France
were all once in the situation of today’s Greece, and in fact had been
far more indebted. The first lesson that we can take from the history
of government debt is that we are not facing a brand new problem.
There have been many ways to repay debts, and not just one, which is
what Berlin and Paris would have the Greeks believe.

ZEIT: But shouldn’t they repay their debts?

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English translation:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-06/piketty-germany-has-never-repaid-its-debts-it-has-no-standing-lecture-other-nations

Auf Deutsch: http://www.zeit.de/2015/26/thomas-piketty-schulden-griechenland/komplettansicht

Hopefully, Die Zeit will allow the original English translation to go back up:
https://medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-has-never-repaid-7b5e7add6fff