Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize Speech
"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them," said British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, 75, during his Literature Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wed., Dec. 7.
"You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."
Additionally, Pinter described the war in Iraq as "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law," asserting that "at least 100,000 Iraqis were killed by American bombs and missiles before the Iraq insurgency began. [...]
by Andre Soares | December 8, 2005
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Tags: George W. Bush, Harold Pinter, Julie Christie, Politics, The Caretaker, The Comfort of Strangers, The Go-Between, The Servant, Theater, Tony Blair
